lessor
(ˈlɛ-, lɛˈsɔː(r))
Also 6 leas(s)or, -our, 6–7 lessour(e, 7 leaser.
[a. AF. lessor, lessour, f. lesser: see lease v. and -or.]
One who grants a lease; one who lets (property) on lease.
| [1278 Act 6 Ed. I, Stat. Glouc. c. 4 Establi est qe apres les deus annz passez eit le lessour accioun a demander la terre en demeine. a 1481 Littleton Inst. §57 Le Lessor est properment lou un home lessa a vn auter certaine terres ou tenements purterme de vie ou pur terme des ans, ou a tener a volunt.] 1487 Act 4 Hen. VII, c. 16 The Occupier and termer of theym from thense be discharged ayenst his lessour of the rente reserued vpon the same leeses. 1533–4 [see lessee]. 1592 West 1st Pt. Symbol. §43 Where the leassor graunteth his lands or other things to the leassee. a 1626 Bacon Max. & Uses Com. Law xii. (1636) 52 If tenant for life and his lessor joyne in a lease for yeares. 1715 Act 1 Geo. I, Stat. ii. c. 55 §1 A Verdict shall be given for the Lessor of the Plaintiff in such Ejectment. 1813 Vancouver Agric. Devon 442 Tenants for lives are now most commonly obliged, on the death of certain persons named in their leases, to surrender to their lessors their best beast. 1880 Blackmore Mary Anerley II. ii. 27 The lessee being bound to a multitude of things, and the lessor to little more than acceptance of the rent. |