[UNDER-1 6 b.] A lease granted by a lessee; a sub-lease.
1702. Boyer, Dict. Royal, I. Soubail,… an under-lease.
1730. Act 4 Geo. II., c. 28 § 6. Those Leases cannot by Law be renewed without a Surrender of all the Under-Leases.
1803. Act 43 Geo. III., c. 75 § 4. It may be for the Benefit of such Persons that Leases, or Under-Leases, should be made of such Estates.
1839. Penny Cycl., XIII. 378/2. Where the property is transferred for a part of the original term only, the transfer is called an under-lease, and the under-lessee is not liable to the original lessor.
1885. Law Times, 7 March, 335/2. The underlease contained a covenant that if the underlessee … should … assign the underlease [etc.].
