The renter is defined in the code as the tenant named on the lease.

If the renter dies or moves out, other tenants get the renewal rights of the tenant named on the lease.

In addition, where there is only one tenant named on the lease, the "roommate law" allows one "additional unrelated occupant" without the landlord's consent.

And they argued for rules governing the succession of rent-controlled or rent-stabilized apartments when the tenant named in the lease dies or moves.

"And many landlords refuse to rent to tenants named in a housing court case, regardless of its outcome," he said.

In all, sixty-seven of the tenants named in this manorial survey held less than a half-yardland.

Douglas wakes up in the apartment of another tenant named Barbara Halloway, who urges Douglas to leave the building for good.

In an earlier version, the code would have introduced a new term - renter - for the term "tenant named on the lease."

But a few weeks after the stabbing, a tenant named Don took a visitor to his room on the fourth floor.

A neighbor said that the elderly man who died was a tenant named Israel.