When first introduced to Mr. Maddox, the then lessee and manager of the house in Oxford Street, she did not impress him favourably.
Another specimen of an unsuccessful manager was Huntley May, who had been lessee of nearly all the small provincial theatres in the kingdom.
ABOUT ten years ago Mr. Landor was the lessee and manager of the Lugubreum Theatre, and John Philp was his master carpenter.
Chatterton, then the lessee of Drury Lane, to endeavour to secure that theatre from March till the end of July.
But he cloaked them carefully and passed the better part of an hour reading the newspaper and exchanging an occasional remark with the lessee of the office.
The curtain came down, and the popular and talented lessee himself stepped in front of it, dressed in his stage costume.
Connop, described as ‘the lessee of the Hippodrome,’ made his appearance in the Insolvent Debtors’ Court.
The first lessee was Charles Poole, previously manager of the Chichester Theatre, and the plays light one-act pieces.
To the astonishment of London, Baum’s counsel quietly announced that the lessee had withdrawn his application, and the licence of Cremorne Gardens lapsed for ever.
John Baum, who became lessee in 1870, had not the character of his predecessors, nor a hand strong enough to restrain the vagaries of his more troublesome clients.
There is one noticeable thing about the conditions imposed upon the lessees of the coal fields by Secretary Lane and it is a point upon which both the prospective lessee and employee should be informed.
One can see how easy it will be for a lessee to make money in coal in Alaska.
Mr. Price was the lessee of Drury Lane at this time, and once or twice Grimaldi thought of applying to him, but fearing it would be useless, dismissed the idea.
It was either during this provincial trip, or about this time, that he first became acquainted with Mr. Davidge, the late lessee of the Surrey Theatre.
If any lessee make default in the payment of interest, his lease is liable to absolute forfeiture, subject to a similar right of appeal, without any compensation for his improvements.
The result was that the penal law, like other clumsy devices of the kind, defeated itself; for there was nothing to prevent the lessee from subletting the land.
As they are ignorant of everything beyond their own county, it is only natural that the new proprietor or lessee should be discussed at great length, and all his acts and deeds be fully commented upon.
Hunter's Lessee went further than any previous judicial pronouncement to establish the relation between National courts and State tribunals which now exists and will continue as long as the Republic endures.
Hunter's Lessee was argued for the former by Charles Lee of Richmond and Walter Jones of Washington, D.
The action was under the ancient form of legal procedure still practiced, and bore the title of "Timothy Trititle, Lessee of David Hunter, vs.
No doubt Lord Mackenzie would provide the best habitation he could for the learned and enterprising lessee of his woods.
Mr Charles Perkins, the lessee of the Fisherfield deer forest, has enlarged the old house at Letterewe, where he resides during the shooting season, and he has erected a shooting-lodge near the head of the Fionn Loch.
This Department introduced in 1864 an elaborate lessee and trade system.
Others wished to relieve the army and the treasury officials of the burden of caring for the blacks and to protect the latter from the "northern harpies and bloodhounds" who had fastened upon them the lessee system.
Then she prepared herself to be driven away, not caring much for the combination of lord and lessee who stood in the street speaking to her.
Though his manners and appearance were so pleasant, he was only a subaltern about the theatre; and he was a subaltern whom this lord and lessee called simply Le Gros.
A lessee should be a lessee, she thought, and a lord a lord.
When the lessor covenants to do all repairs, and fails to do so, the lessee may repair, and deduct the cost from the rent.
In houses held under lease, it has been the practice with landlords to lease the bare walls of the tenement only, leaving the lessee to put in the stoves, cupboards, and such other conveniences as he requires, at his own option.
The lesseeof the theatre supplies himself with the material for the development of actors, by taking children on contract, or apprenticeship, for a fixed period (often three years) according to a written agreement.
Two years later this was increased to twenty-one years, on condition of the lessee surrendering another quarter of his area at the end of the fifteenth year.
Footnote a: Inter alia the subsection referred to provides that the lessee shall not, during the first five years of the term of the lease, mortgage, assign, or transfer the lease.
But it was only discovered by many members after the Act had become law that a run might mean a block of 25 square miles, and that a lessee with a dozen blocks could secure strategic freeholds in as many different parts of his holding.
An act done by a wrongdoer, not under the lessor's order, will not justify the lessee in quitting.
If the time be less, a verbal lease may be made, even though the lessee does not take immediate possession of the premises.
If it be for a house or other building the lessee should insist on this, otherwise he would fare much worse should the building be destroyed by fire.
But an agreement by the lessee to keep and leave it in good repair, does not require him to rebuild should it be destroyed by fire, or other cause without any fault of his own.
Doubtless many do not know that, unless the lessee makes a specific agreement relieving himself, he is liable for the rent of a building, just the same if it is burned down as if he were still the occupier.
The landlord also usually agrees to repair, and often to renew the lease, and the lessee to pay rent, to insure and not to assign or underlet, without the landlord's consent.
If there be a doubt on which of two days a lease terminates, the lessee may decide.
If the premises are occupied by the lessee and his rent is paid as specified in the lease, this is regarded as a ratification by him of an invalid or void lease.
One of the curious cases is the lease of a distillery which could not be run because the landlord prevented the lessee from getting a license.
A lease may also be assigned if the lessee become insolvent, also by a new partnership created by the addition or retirement of a member.
When a lessee is evicted or turned out of possession by his landlord, he is excused from paying rent.
As the lessee may assign or sublet unless forbidden, so may the lessor part with his interest in the leased premises.
If he shall let a many storied building to several tenants, to each tenant a story, who have exclusive possession thereof, the lessor will not be liable to any lessee for the damage caused by another.
Thus the darkening by an adjacent owner of the lessee's premises by erecting a structure, however injurious it might be, would not justify the lessee in quitting and refusing to pay his agreed rent.
The return, for this reason, was of course a grave disappointment to Mr. Stubbs, but he rose to the occasion when the long lost lessee appeared on the scene, and welcomed him cordially.
In these painful circumstances I heard to my great sorrow that my brother's wife had persuaded him to become the lessee of the theatre of S.
My brother Gasparo's direction of the theatre of which he was the sole lessee bore such fruits as every one predicted.
Master and conductor (lessee of the pottery), or potter: Tegula C.
The market ran so much against the lesor, that the lessee had liberty to build in what manner he pleased; and, at the expiration of the term, could remove the buildings unless the other chose to purchase them.
