rental-property legal-terms definition
What is the difference between sublet and sublease?
<p>What's the difference between sublet, subleasing and subletting? Are they all words for the same thing? If sublet is the name of the person who takes over, is that the same as subletor? </p>

<p>Let and lease are variations of the same word; the former is more common in British English and the latter more common in American English.</p>

<p>Leasing is the verb form of lease.</p>

<p>Adding sub to any of them just moves the arrangement down from being between the owner and the tenant to being between a tenant and a (sub)tenant.</p>

<p>This answer relates to U.S. law only.</p>

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  <p>What's the difference between sublet, subleasing and subletting? Are they all words for the same thing?</p>
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<p>Yes, they are different words for the same concept and have identical meanings.</p>

<p>Looking at the root words, <strong>let</strong> and <strong>lease</strong> may help to dispell some confusion. An authoritative legal dictionary, Black's Law Dictionary (10th edition 2014), defines them as follows:</p>

<ul>
<li><p><strong>let</strong> <em>vb.</em> -  To offer (property) for lease; to rent out. <em>The hospital let office space to several doctors.</em></p></li>
<li><p><strong>lease</strong> <em>vb.</em> 1. To grant the possession and use of (land, buildings, rooms, movable property, etc.) to another in return for rent or other consideration. <em>The city leased the stadium to the football team.</em> 2. To take a lease of; to hold by a lease. <em>Carol leased the townhouse from her uncle</em>.</p></li>
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<p>So, in the legal context, subletting and subleasing are both used to talk about the same same concept leasing property to a third party.</p>

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  <p>If sublet is the name of the person who takes over, is that the same
  as subletor?</p>
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<p>Subletor is not commonly used in the practice of law&ndash;sublessor is favored. However, they have the same meaning. A subletor / sublessor is the person who is making the sublease.</p>

<p>When it comes to legal jargon, an old professor gave me a tip to help decipher some of the terms used in contract/property law. The person ending in -or is the one doing the action of the root work. The word ending in -ee is the person receiving it.</p>
