Word: tenant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Parliament which was passed only by the worst kind of bribery. The abolition of the Parliament injured the landlord by sending him to London, where he tried to live up to the scale set by the English aristocracy, and in a few years ran into debt beyond recovery. The tenant supplied all the capital while the landlord merely held the position of rent-taker and did nothing in return. Because of this system there arose an insane competition to get land. The tenant offered more than he could pay and in a few years was bankrupt and evicted. In this...
...formed by the peasants to try and better conditions. The next year Mr. Gladstone turned his attention to the land troubles and secured temporary relief, by the passage of a bill, until in 1885 the great Land Purchase Act was passed. This measure provided that after the landlord and tenant had agreed upon a fair price for the land they should jointly apply to the state which gave the purchase money to the landlord, who from that time had no hold upon the land. The tenant payed rent to the state for a stipulated length of time, at the expiration...
...that year, in March, 1903, the room that he now occupies, may have for his room-mate any other Undergraduate; but he may not take as his room-mate any person who would be ineligible, in March, 1902, to engage the room for himself were he then a tenant thereof...
...CRIMSON of May 26 it is stated that a committee of Directors found, on making enquiries looking to a lease of a certain property for a term of years, that the Society was not considered a very desirable tenant. On asking a member of the above committee for information on this point I was told that a certain man had refused the Society unless it was incorporated. Feeling that there might be some mistake, I went to the man who had refused to rent to the Society and told him what I had heard. He declared that he had said...
...summing up, the Court says: "The distinction lies, it seems to us, between an occupancy which is for the private benefit and convenience of the officer and which is so regarded by the parties as in the ordinary case of landlord and tenant, and an occupancy where, although necessarily to some extent the relation of landlord and tenant enters into it, the dominant or principal matter of consideration is the effect of the occupancy in promoting the objects of the institution and upon the efficiency and influence of the officers as such and upon those whom the institution designs...