0 a person with a legal right to stay in a property that they are renting:
1 someone with the legal right to remain in a property that they are renting and who cannot be forced to leave by its owner:
In such a case they would have asked for a little more than they were willing to accept from the sitting tenant.
It is the practice of good landlords to continue a tenancy for a sitting tenant.
It will inhibit the willingness of a sitting tenant to pass the tenancy on during his life to his successor.
In case after case the sitting tenant could not get suitable accommodation.
The interests of the sitting tenant are protected but the chances of the homeless and the badly housed getting a home are diminished.
I do not want anybody to suffer by this—the sitting tenant, the succeeding tenant, or anybody else.
But the sitting tenant has paid something, and it may be a very considerable amount.
In the case of a sitting tenant, the price will reflect any improvements which have been carried out by tenants.
