SUBLET: When a party agrees to rent a space from the main tenant for a portion of the time remaining on the lease.
SUBPOENA: An order compelling a person to appear to testify or produce documents.
When a tenant sublets, he usually needs to obtain the landlord's prior written consent or licence to do so.
Did you ever sublet an apartment on Twenty-ninth Street from me? CHAMBERS. No; I did not. HISS. You did not? CHAMBERS. No. HISS.
Subinfeudation
The feudal system of tenure, whereby a person receiving a grant of land from a lord, could himself become a lord by subdividing and subletting that land to others.
Subinfeudation:
The process whereby, under the feudal system of tenure, a person receiving a grant of land from a lord, could himself become a lord by subdividing and subletting that land to others.
Where permanently low rents were established in India, landholders sublet at outrageous prices when land values rose. Similar problems have arisen elsewhere in the transformation from customary to contractual tenures.
Expanded Legal Definition of Star ChamberSubinfeudation The process whereby, under the feudal system of tenure, a person receiving a grant of land from a lord, could himself become a landlord by subdividing and subletting that land to others.
 See also: Term, Will, Right, Were, Statute
  
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