Also 6 leas(s)or, -our, 6–7 lessour(e, 7 leaser. [a. AF. lessor, lessour, f. lesser: see LEASE v. and -OR.] One who grants a lease; one who lets (property) on lease.
[1278. Act 6 Ed. I, Stat. Glouc., c. 4. Establi est qe apres les deus annz passez eit le lessour accioun a demander la terre en demeine.
a. 1481. Littleton, Inst., § 57. Le Lessor est properment lou un home lessa a vn auter certaine terres ou tenements purterme de vie ou pur terme des ans, ou a tener a volunt.]
1487. Act 4 Hen. VII., c. 16. The Occupier and termer of theym from thense be discharged ayenst his lessour of the rente reserued vpon the same leeses.
1533–4. [see LESSEE].
1592. West, 1st Pt. Symbol., § 43. Where the leassor graunteth his lands or other things to the leassee.
a. 1626. Bacon, Max. & Uses Com. Law, xii. (1636), 52. If tenant for life and his lessor joyne in a lease for yeares.
1715. Act 1 Geo. I, Stat. II. c. 55 § 1. A Verdict shall be given for the Lessor of the Plaintiff in such Ejectment.
1813. Vancouver, Agric. Devon, 442. Tenants for lives are now most commonly obliged, on the death of certain persons named in their leases, to surrender to their lessors their best beast.
1880. Blackmore, Mary Anerley, II. ii. 27. The lessee being bound to a multitude of things, and the lessor to little more than acceptance of the rent.
