une hausse dans les loyers, a rise in rents

1. 21. principal locataire, 'tenant,' a word which, however, does net convey to the mind the fuU meaning of the French term. Parisian houses, being divided into a number of flats, appartements, are tenanted by several families. When the landlord does not occupy one of the flats he often has a principal locataire, who has power to sub-let apartments for which he is then responsible to the landlord.

1. 26. tribunal de commerce, commercial court, tribunal of commerce.