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Lessee

賃借人(ちんしゃくにん)

The party to a lease (賃貸借) who uses a thing, such as land or a building, pays rent for it and must return it when the contract ends; in everyday words, the tenant (Civil Code, Article 601). The lessee needs the lessor's (賃貸人) consent to transfer the lease or to sublet the thing (Article 612, paragraph (1)).

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5 laws in force use it in this sense, in 32 provisions; there the word opens this explanation.

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