How To Use Landlord In A Sentence

Now that I think about it, direct property distraint was a recognized means of compelling welchers to fulfill their obligations in the quasi-anarchic Brehon laws of Celtic Ireland, even if it was a case of tenants or debtors going after landlords or creditors. Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #30
Soon the association was strong enough to boycott local landlords who were evicting their tenants and offering the land to others at increased rents.
In the case of periodic tenancies the legislature left landlords free to bring them to an end by the service and expiry of valid notices to quit.
Should "landlordism" in Ireland be supplanted by home rule? Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
The landlord could be forced to pay compensation equal to three times the sum of the deposit. Times, Sunday Times

The Servian action is that by which a landlord sues for his tenant's property, over which he has a right in the nature of mortgage as security for his rent; the quasi-Servian is a similar remedy, open to every pledgee or hypothecary creditor. The Institutes of Justinian
There may also be differences in premiums for a publican and a landlord, or a barrister and lawyer. Times, Sunday Times
As if all that were not trouble enough, the landlord lets a goat loose in the flat.
In this case the subtenant had covenanted with his landlord that he would repair the property.
Many small farms were indeed still let to some cottagers at rack-rent, which cottages had the right of commonage, guaranteed to them in their leases; but afterwards the commons were enclosed, and no recompense was made to the tenants by the landlords. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
The landlord refused to serve him because he considered him too drunk.
I'm afraid to say whilst there are some good landlords and landladies in town, there are also some who need to stop looking so miserable, put a smile on their face and start offering a genuine welcome along with some value for money
They took the landlord to court over increasing rent levels.
The landlord can also almost certainly forfeit your deposit, but only as a contribution towards the rent. Times, Sunday Times
The landlord refused to serve him because he considered him too drunk.
Prior to the making of such alterations the tenants should obtain the consent of the landlord to the proposed alterations.
Such property was the most popular option of landlords in the months leading up to the stamp duty surcharge, pushing up prices further. Times, Sunday Times
It is free of charge for buyer and or landlord listing during trial period.
Campaigners for tenants' rights say that the number of unscrupulous letting agents exploiting tenants and landlords with underhand tactics has risen dramatically over the past two years. Times, Sunday Times
But it seems that a growing number of landlords are relying on rental income long before retirement to supplement their squeezed earnings. Times, Sunday Times
Tenants have to pay this but if a commercial property is empty for more than three months the landlord is liable. Times, Sunday Times
When landlords allow student housing to deteriorate, there is a corresponding decrease in property value that impacts surrounding properties.
He is still finding it hard to get a damage deposit together and notes that even if he had the money, many landlords don't want to rent from someone whose current address is a shelter.
Anyway, if you establish a rule of constitutional law that the leaseholder is entitled to compensation, it’s not clear why that rule would not apply if the leaseholder contracted with the landlord to pay over to the landlord any compensation the leaseholder receives in a condemnation proceeding; but in that case, it’s clear that valuing the interests separately distorts the true nature of the transaction. The Volokh Conspiracy » An Important Case on Compensation for Takings
It can be more if the landlord is full of good cheer and less if he is not. Times, Sunday Times
Most landlords will be more enthusiastic about keeping hold of a good tenant than hiking rents. Times, Sunday Times
It is not surprising then that landlord domination of the land rental market has resulted in stringent tenancy contracts.
Your daughter tried very hard to get back the money from her landlord but he proved to be an incredibly slippery character. Times, Sunday Times
The landlords disputed that contention on two grounds. Times, Sunday Times
As the night draws to a close and the remaining few are left in the town's pubs, landlords and landladies call time at 11 before you stagger into the Indian-Chinese-Italian-Mexican-or Kebab shop takeaway and you're in the midnight hour.
The council brought pressure to bear on the landlord to improve his property.
Landlords share information about troublemakers and telephone each other to warn about rowdy drinkers.
Landlords with high mortgage costs relative to the rent could lose money because tax bills exceed net income. Times, Sunday Times
In the case of periodic tenancies the legislature left landlords free to bring them to an end by the service and expiry of valid notices to quit.
My landlord's given me a week to clear out of my flat.
Tenants are also expected to supply references from their employer, bank and previous landlord.
Their landlord has threatened to send in the bailiffs if they don't pay their rent.
Maliseet, which open with the obtaining of a gold-dropping horse from an old man because of kindness, the loss of it at an inn at the bands of a rascally landlord, and the recovery of the animal through the generous use of a magic cudgel. Filipino Popular Tales
Landlords are normally required to give 28 days' written notice to quit.
And he is also keen to launch the Landlord on the big screen. The Sun
Landlords are normally required to give 28 days' written notice to quit.
Landlords are required by law to have an annual gas safety check carried out and to ensure that boilers are maintained in a safe condition. Times, Sunday Times
Given the sums that they had borrowed from shopkeepers and moneylenders at high interest rates, tenants were unable to satisfy both their creditors in the towns and their landlords.
If the goods are removed from the leased premises prior to the landlord's hypothec being perfected, the rights therein are lost to the landlord.
Plans to transfer thousands of council homes into the hands of not-for-profit landlords could be put to six public ballots.
The house has an absentee landlord , who visits the property once a year.
His critique of landlord powerlessness rests on the belief that aristocratic rule and estate ownership are ends in themselves.
This institution rendered it sufficiently safe for the tenant, and much more convenient for the landlord, to convert, as they call it, the corn rent, rather at what should happen to be the price of the fiars of each year, than at any certain fixed price. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
As many as three bidders are chasing after one of the biggest landlords in Britain, Canary Wharf.
It's hardly surprising if he's behind with his rent and his new landlords have a more profitable venture in mind.
The retailers are to tell landlords that they will only pay rent monthly in advance rather than quarterly. Times, Sunday Times
These schemes deal with complaints made by tenants or landlords about agents and they can award compensation. Times, Sunday Times
A young woman wept in court as a jury cleared her of causing the death of a former pub landlord.
An important question that then suggests itself is whether tenancy contracts are becoming more stringent and, by implication, whether the class power of landlords is becoming more acute.
In order to defeat US imperialism in the Philippines, the people must unite to end the rule of the big landlords , big compradors and bureaucrat capitalists.
Agents outside the capital are also noticing the return of the landlord. Times, Sunday Times
In northern Italy and in France, south of the Loire, the main tenurial development of the seventeenth century was a massive extension of share-cropping, whereby landlords received rents as a fixed percentage of their tenants' crops.
“This man will carry you beyond Chradim for a _zwanziger_ a head,” said the landlord, pointing to the half-liveried fellow, who began gesticulating violently, and marking us off with his fingers as if we were so many sheep. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
He paid a month's rent in advance, just enough to satisfy the landlord's avarice.
A landlord who was tied up and threatened at knifepoint while balaclava-clad raiders ransacked his Brentwood pub has told of his horrific ordeal.
You are fleeced by these landlords for their private benefit, and as well kept under by the public burdens of State, wherein while the richer sort favour themselves, ye are gnawn to the very bones. The Rise of the Democracy
We are appealing all people, all pro people organizations, individuals and democrats to expose and fight conspiracies of exploiting landlords and sangh parivaar combine's anti people and anti democratic acts like bundh against the people and their cause in the name of maintenance of so called peaceful environment, which is for them. CPI(Maoist)Karnataka State Committee on Anti-people band organised by Landlords
The ... Act ... set out an entirely new regime for new lettings where they involved absentee landlords.
The landlord could be forced to pay compensation equal to three times the sum of the deposit. Times, Sunday Times
Moodie requested the use of a sofa for me during the night; but even that produced a demur from the landlord. Roughing It in the Bush
Landlords believe that the Rent Acts unfairly interfere with freedom of contract and exacerbate the housing shortage.
There are two ways leaseholders can require a landlord to transfer management of a block of flats. Times, Sunday Times
The "living in sin" stigma is less than it was 30 years ago, when landlords denied apartments to unmarried couples, said Steven Ruggles, director of the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota. In economic downturn, an uptick in couples living together before marriage
The administrator assured staff, residents, landlords and suppliers that the administration of the parent company would not directly affect them. Times, Sunday Times
Let's see, the economy "cratered," in John McCain's words, under the absentee landlord practices of the Bush Administration. RNC airs critical ads prior to Obama visit
If you end up with a dispute resolution service, excessive procedural requirements are being put on landlords. Times, Sunday Times
Through capital appreciation and property acquisitions, landlords expect their portfolios to rise in value by 2.6 per cent. Times, Sunday Times
Some landlords also use supermarket billboards and cards in newsagent's windows.
These schemes deal with complaints made by tenants or landlords about agents and they can award compensation. Times, Sunday Times
I've had to chase the landlord up again to repair the roof.
Thousands of pub landlords had been given notices to quit and offered lease agreements with rents widely regarded as excessive.
Any charge by the landlord is standard-rated if it is for agreeing not to opt or that the rent is VAT-inclusive.
They took their landlord to court for breaking the contract.
Sweetie (that's what you call your occasional traveling companion when you know you're stepping outside his comfort zone) - the landlord for that rental next week? The Other Side of the Ocean
Landlords can charge a returnable deposit.
Landlords like the flexibility of being able to put up rents and evict unsuitable tenants. Times, Sunday Times
The landlords for whom most of the campesinos work as sharecroppers do not think that peasants should be taught to read, as they may "misinterpret" the one-sided contracts they must sign in order to work. Mutual aid and survival in the mountains of Oaxaca
The freed slaves were held in ‘debt bondage,’ with the landlord forcing them to work for no wages and with no days off to repay the purchase of tools.
The landlord cannot resile from the lease
Some tenants prefer, however, to seek to obtain from the landlord a covenant not to waive the exemption.
Landlords will also suffer if tenants cannot pay their rent. Times, Sunday Times
Such views, however, stemmed more from Mitchel's hatred of capitalism and landlordism than from any coherent socialist ideology.
Landlord Oliver Cleary is expecting a dip in takings when 10 of his regulars jet off for their annual golf tour to Portugal next month.
The monks, who had been easy and indulgent landlords, were succeeded by selfish despots who introduced rack-rent for the tenants and brought them to that pitiable state of serfdom in which the nineteenth century—to the eternal shame of Protestant England! The Social Order Before and After the Protestant Reformation
- A German immigrant who masqueraded as a member of the famous Rockefeller family appeared Friday in a Southern California court to face charges that he murdered his landlord more than a quarter-century ago then fled the state. Rockefeller Impostor Appears In Murder Case
Get your money's worth n Find out who the landlord and managing agents are. Times, Sunday Times
The great comital landlords held real power at the local level. 795-96
Other property owners, tenants or landlords have failed to provide any smoke or fire detection systems.
Nor have they any legal commitment to managing the monstrous forests they created for their absentee landlords.
The board also urged the courts to impose the maximum fines on bum landlords.
I've had passing acquaintance recently with the greed and contemptuous indifference of some London landlords. Times, Sunday Times
Often in debt, they are economically and politically dependent on local headmen and landlords.
I see no difficulty in the landlord recovering damages at the market rate even though he has adduced no evidence that he would or could have relet the property.
Overthrowing capitalism and landlordism , and establishing a nationalized and democratically planned economy, is the only way to develop the productive forces.
The big commercial landlords keep suggesting that they have sold on the shops that were let to dodgy retail chains. Times, Sunday Times
In witness whereof the hand and seal of the landlord and of the tenant have been hereunto set the day and year first above-written.
The "cropper" is barely a step advanced above the laborer, for he, too, furnishes nothing but labor, while the landlord supplies house, tools, live stock, and seed. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making
A landlord cannot refuse demands from disabled tenants to adapt rented accommodation.
The Landlord unbarred the door.
Their potential negligence may have put you in breach of your legal obligations as a landlord, and your tenant could seek recourse through a claim for damages. Times, Sunday Times
Worst feature Landlords and substandard accommodation can be a nightmare. Times, Sunday Times
The winners will be Irish landlords, existing house-owners and industrialists.
Amongst the personages of a lower class, the most prominent is Toussaint Gilles, landlord of the Cheval Patriote, and son of one of the revolutionary butchers of the Reign of Terror; a furious republican, who wears a _carmagnole_ and a red cap, inherits his father's hatred of the vile aristocrats, and prides himself on his principles, and on a truculent and immeasurable mustache. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
Six Senegalese porters lived in the single room below us, holding cheerful merguez barbecues with the window closed in case the landlord caught them.
My poor niece and her sisters take up most of my time and thoughts: but I will not attrist you to indulge myself, but will break off here, and finish my letter when I have seen your new landlord. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
It would, of course, be easier for landlords if all letting agents were obliged by law to abide by financial protection arrangements. Times, Sunday Times
The tenant filed a claim against the landlord to recover his losses.
But councillors claim absentee and obstructive landlords and residents could block the scheme in some streets.
The landlord would be estopped from asserting his right to evict the tenant for late payment of rent. Sui Generis--a New York law blog:
For those who are already buy-to-let landlords, things are buoyant. Times, Sunday Times
The landlord had the right of entry to the flat with due warning.
Such property was the most popular option of landlords in the months leading up to the stamp duty surcharge, pushing up prices further. Times, Sunday Times
Shortly afterwards, Gough punched a drinker, who had to be taken outside by the landlord.
Security of tenure also means that a landlord may be unable to regain his house, if he wishes to.
The landlord, John Richards, had re-let the plantation to a Mr. Townshend the previous February, without giving the required notice of twelve months, as stipulated by the lease with her husband. Gutenber-e Help Page
Fiona's mother kept a kindly eye on her daughter while at the same time flirting dangerously with the landlord.
For the bank, renting buildings from other landlords is likely to be cheaper in the short term than owning its own. Times, Sunday Times
Corfu was "pacified" -- that's the phrase for it -- by abolishing the landlords. Lord Kilgobbin
A landlord and landlady today told of the battle to prevent their pub being ruined by flood water.
However, Goodchild (brought back by his cry for help) bandaged the ankle with a pocket-handkerchief, and assisted by the landlord, raised the crippled Apprentice to his legs, offered him a shoulder to lean on, and exhorted him for the sake of the whole party to try if he could walk. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Well they douted the light and they said goodnight to the landlord then they made their way home.
Private landlords often play a key role in encouraging other owners to get work done.
The accumulation of these kinds of anecdotal stories of corruption convinced him to set a trap to ensnarl slum landlords and city inspectors in a carefully documented web of official misconduct.
The concept of mesne profit could arise in the case of a tenant and a landlord.
The landlord's interest in respect of possession of the property is deferred to that of the tenant until the lease terminates, at which time the property reverts to the landlord.
Landlords are able to screen out negative news on house prices, and property is an illiquid investment that is a hassle to offload. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps the landlord's getting a backhander from the estate agent.
We tended a small flock of sheep for our landlord. Christianity Today
I've had to chase the landlord up again to repair the roof.
A judge and landlord, he throve on amateur metaphysics and early anthropology, purveying monkey theories almost a century ahead of Darwin.
I also own a lava lamp, or at least a vial of orange goo left behind by my landlord who has an unnervingly 70s view of home design.
The lack of land and hunger made the neighboring landlords'opulence and luxury especially intolerable.
The landlords have never been castigated for ousting their tenantry.
This comes on top of stamp-duty increases and the tapering of mortgage relief forcing many landlords to reconsider their position. Times, Sunday Times
Landlords almost always prefer to sign a long-term lease with a stable and heavily capitalized corporation.
A tenant, though threatened with suits at law on a title adverse to liis landlord's, cannot make them interplead. Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of exchequer, from Easter term 32 George III. to [Trinity term 37 George III.] ... both inclusive. [1792-1797]
Landlords with high mortgage costs relative to the rent could lose money because tax bills exceed net income. Times, Sunday Times
He lay hold on an oaken shinty stick that hung on the wall, property of the ferry-house landlord's son. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
The following day I hired a van, loaded up my possessions and then handed over my keys to the landlord.
Formerly landlord of the eponymous Comedian pub at Sunniside, the ever-buoyant Bob has gone downhill to Crook.
There will also be informal ballots organised by individual landlords at hundreds of pubs in Manchester.
Many of the buildings are empty, owned by absentee landlords who have for years left the council to do repairs. Times, Sunday Times
This comes on top of stamp-duty increases and the tapering of mortgage relief forcing many landlords to reconsider their position. Times, Sunday Times
Police have been in contact with local landlords and hoteliers to advise them on policing during the military deployment.
The person most likely to be affected by this change is an intermediate landlord, that is a person who holds a lease from the freeholder, out of which he has granted a sub-lease to the person who is now in actual occupation.
Formerly all tenants had some capital, and often considerable; but absentee landlordism, rising rack-rent, and failing cotton have stripped them well-nigh of all, and probably not over half of them to-day own their mules. The Souls of Black Folk
In 1857 a government investigating committee learned from landlords in the Five Points that “in some of the better class of houses built for the tenantry, Negroes have been preferred as occupants to Irish or German poor; the incentive of possessing comparatively decent quarters appearing to inspire the colored residents with more desire for personal cleanliness and regard for property than is impressed upon the whites of their own condition.” A Renegade History of the United States
Rather than charge monthly rent, most landlords used to require tenants to put up huge cash deposits, often hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Family and friends of a landlord who died tragically 11 days ago have marked his birthday with a graveside celebration.
If we want any fun, we either find a slum landlord or move in with mum and dad. Times, Sunday Times
More than 80 percent of Palestinians lived in villages and tilled the land of absentee landlords.
Mr. Peter's new-patented invention is very interesting, especially for landlords and hoteliers.
Almost a tenth of all houses are occupied by tenants renting from private landlords.
The proposals would place a further burden on landlords and could dissuade investors from buy-to-let. Times, Sunday Times
In some parts there are basically too many landlords chasing too few tenants, which is pushing down rents.
We have just taken chocolate, and, amidst a profusion of bows and civilities from the landlord, are preparing to set off for Mexico. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
Yet they did say that the landlord of a rival inn was heard to remark that "the cauptain gaed ower aften to Lucky G---- 's howf. Stories of the Border Marches
Most complaints are from tenants, but some come from landlords in dispute with their hired agents over fees or services. Times, Sunday Times
In August, the landlord removed the entire stairwell, prompting City of Montreal building inspectors to declare her apartment unfit for habitation.
Here again the ‘tendency’ of landlordism was not merely overcome but reversed by other processes.
That said, rental properties are often unloved and poorly equipped as landlords have little incentive to make them great places to live. The Sun
The landlord had not renewed Elgaen's lease, and he couldn't find a favorable north-end location in time.
The relationship between landlords and tenants is a recurring theme in Irish history.
It's advertised with the term "landlord is flexible", which I later learn means that I am willing to offer it furnished or part-furnished. Diary of a landlord: open day viewings
On moonless nights when the landlord and his wife were too busy with trade to notice his absence, he prowled the bay, committing to memory its tidal vagaries and hazards to navigation, while he easily scried the maneuvers of the Cathran fleet and judged the competence of the different squadron leaders. Conqueror's Moon
Landlords who serve booze between midnight and 6am could be billed. The Sun
Lenders are also cutting the amount they will lend to landlords. Times, Sunday Times
Almost all private landlords will only let properties on a shorthold tenancy, in order to protect their investment.
I've had passing acquaintance recently with the greed and contemptuous indifference of some London landlords. Times, Sunday Times
By the Statute of 1861 the 22 million serfs owned by private landlords were set free from personal bondage.
As soon as they moved out, the landlord came and dug up the garden and chopped down every single tree.
The landlord said that fixing the house up would be a waste of time and money.
The land is let on lease for terms as long sometimes as sixty-four years, and is sometimes underlet at greatly increased prices to the ultimate tenants, whose precarious condition brings the "head" landlord into undeserved odium. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
His British landlord rents out two rooms to four immigrants, while simultaneously claiming benefit for the property.
Mr. Jay (who lives by supplying the newspapers with short paragraphs relating to accidents, offenses, and brief records of remarkable occurrences in general -- who is, in short, what they call a penny-a-liner) told his landlord that he had been in the city that day and heard unfavourable rumours on the subject of the joint-stock banks. Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories
If you arrive when the cask is tapped, you'll get to see the cellarman (or "landlord" or "publican", etc.) tap the cask. Long Island Beer Events
I know most of the landlords and landladies here and they certainly wouldn't sell alcohol to children.
The situation has not been helped by unscrupulous landlords renting out property to anybody no matter what their history.
What astonishes those observing from the sidelines is that most of the wider community of around 1,700 people perceive Mackintosh to be a benevolent landlord who has spent his own money on improving their lot.
Rue Marie Stuart, not far from the Rue Montorgeuil, and only two or three minutes 'walk from the Louvre, having a baker with a pretty wife for my landlord, and a cozy little room in which three persons could sit comfortably, for my domicil. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
Despite city law on the matter, her unscrupulous landlord refused. Christianity Today
An excellent archer, he lived in Sherwood Forest with the fair Maid Marian, the stalwart Little John, the priest Friar Tuck, the musician Allan-a-Dale, and others who helped him rob rich landlords and thwart his chief enemy, the sheriff of Nottingham. Robin Hood
It could apply to hotel and motel owners, cruise ship operators, stadium owners, landlords, real estate managers, and event promoters.
Landlords should consider rental yields as well as the potential capital appreciation.
She was brought sharply back to earth by the gruff voice of the landlord yelling in her ear
Mineral rights on most of the disputed land in Gallatin are owned separately from surface rights and have been leased to Huber by absentee landlords. 07/05/2004
Rents should be index-linked to inflation, a measure that would guarantee security for tenants and a reasonable return for landlords.
Housing associations and income support have offered a more targeted response to poverty than state landlordism. Times, Sunday Times
Landlords indeed are responsible for losses arising out of their negligence.
Others look to the peasantry to form armed bands which can take land from the big landlords and distribute it to the poor.
Blackpool pub landlord Hamish Howitt, 55, who is an anti-smoking ban campaigner, is promising to stand up for working class smokers, while the Cleethorpes-based Generalist Party and The Official Monster Raving Loony Party have also announced their intention to field candidates. Archive 2008-06-01
Protestants, and is to impower every Landlord, notwithstanding A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753
Agencies and landlords are not legally allowed to discriminate on grounds of race but ways are invariably found around this.
The rental sector remains highly fragmented, made up mainly of individual landlords who each own a small number of buy-to-let homes.
Bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is gumptious," said the landlord, delighted to puzzle a Parson. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851

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