rent strike

rent strike
rent strike n: a refusal by a group of tenants to pay rent (as in protest against high rates)

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

rent strike
An organized protest on the part of tenants in which they withhold the payment of consideration for the use or occupation of property from their landlord until their grievances are settled.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


rent strike
An organized protest on the part of tenants in which they withhold the payment of consideration for the use or occupation of property from their landlord until their grievances are settled.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

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