The laws respecting landlords, tenants, and lodgers, [electronic resource] : laid down in a plain, easy and familiar manner; Together with Practical Directions Concerning Leases, Assignments, Surrenders, Agreements, Covenants, Repairs, Waste, Fire, &c. Demand and Payment of Rent, Distress and Ejectment; as collected from the several reports and other books of authority, up to the present time. To which are also added, Cautions and Directions relative to the Hiring and Letting of Houses and Apartments. Also Distinct Treatises on the Various Kinds of Estates, Particularly Estates for Life, for Years, and Copyhold Estates. With an Appendix of Precedents, Comprising a great Variety of the most approved Forms of Leases, Assignments, Surrenders, Covenants, Notices to Quit, Receipts for Rent, and Precedents in Distress. To which is likewise now affixed, for the Assistance of the unprofessional Reader, A Dictionary of Law Terms, explaining the Import of such technical Words and Phrases as occur in the Work. By James Barry Bird, of New-Inn, Esq.