[f. SUB- 9 (b).] trans. To sublet.
1828–43. Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), I. 174. In giving leases of houses … he prohibited his tenants and vassals from subleasing them to any except Englishmen.
1885. Law Times, LXXIX. 233/1. A builder erects a row of cottages on the land subleased to him.
1898. Tobias, Freed, but not Free, 39. All the convicts whom he does not work himself are sub-leased by him to other employers, who may desire cheap labour.
So Sub-lessee, one who holds or receives a sub-lease; Sub-lessor, one who grants a sub-lease.
1882. Ogilvie, Sub-lessee.
1884. Law Times, 9 Feb., 259/1. To indemnify the sublessor against breaches of all covenants in the head-lease.
