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nouna landowner who leases to otherstype of:
Definition that contains landlord
- landlady a landlord who is a woman
- eviction action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved
- attorn acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord
- retaliatory eviction an eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states
- constructive eviction action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved
- landlord's lien lien on a tenant's property for the satisfaction of unpaid rent or property damage; the landlord is given the status of a preferred creditor with regard to the tenant's property