clearing lease

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


Explained in quotation.

1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discoveries in Australia,' vol. i. c. x.p. 321:

«[They] held a small piece of land on what is called a clearinglease – – that is to say, they were allowed to retain possessionof it for so many years for the labour of clearing the land.»

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