Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Lessor

One who conveys real or personal property by lease; LANDLORD.

Sublessor

A lessee who leases some or all of the leased property to a third party. - Also termed (esp. in England) underlessor.

Underlessor

See SUBLESSOR.

headlessor.

A lessor on a lease of property that has been subleased.

lessor of the plaintiff

Hist. The true party in interest prosecuting an action for ejectment. ( At common law, an ejectment action theoretically was only for the recovery of the unexpired term of the lease. Conventions of pleadings at the time required the true plaintiff to grant a fictitious lease, thereby becoming a lessor, to an equally fictitious plaintiff in whose name the action would be prosecuted.

lessor's interest

The present value of the future income under a lease, plus the present value of the property after the lease expires. Cf. LESSEE'S INTEREST.