lease

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• Lease

  ·vt The contract for such letting. II. Lease ·vi To gather what harvesters have left behind; to <<G...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• lease

  a cow -lease, cow-pasture. W. Perhaps lees. Also a small piece of ground of two or three acres. Ess....

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• clearing lease

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

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

• perpetual lease

  though a misnomer, is a statutoryexpression in New Zealand. Under the former Land Acts, thegrantee o...

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

• cow-lease

  A right of pasturage for a cow, in a common pasture. Used in some towns of New England.--Pickering's...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• lease in perpetuity

  a statutory expression in themost recent land legislation of New Zealand, indicating aspecific mode ...

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