A legal term for a tenant who occupies or holds something in place of another; an alternative or substitute tenant.
From dis- (variant position) + tenant (from Latin tenere, to hold). A technical term in property law referring to alternative occupancy arrangements.
This is a rare legal term that shows how Latin prefixes like dis- can mean not just 'opposite' but also 'separate' or 'alternative'—the law has many such technical terms that almost nobody uses anymore.
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