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The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease. Blackstone.

A partner in a lease taen.

See Releasee.

A holder of a sublease.

A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.

The fictitious lessee acting as plaintiff in the common-law action of ejectment, the fictitious defendant being usually denominated Richard Roe. Hence, a fictitious name for a party, real or fictitious, to any action or proceeding.

cuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.

A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease. Bouvier.

To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another person.

One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee. Sir W. Scott. The tacksmen, who formed what may be called the "peerage" of the little community, must be the captains. Macaulay.

A lease granted by a tenant or lessee; especially, a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease. Burrill.

A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.

Tenancy or tenure under a tenant or lessee; the tenure of an undertenant.

The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.

ing (Law), the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill.