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Lease

Lease Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Lease? [n] a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment [n] property that is leased or rented out or let [n] the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect [v] engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" [v] grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners" [v] let for money; of housing [v] hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services Synonyms \| Synonyms for Lease: charter \| charter \| engage \| hire \| hire \| let \| letting \| rent \| rent \| rental \| take \| term of a contract Related Terms \| Find terms related to Lease: adverse possession \| alodium \| bareboat charter \| burgage \| charter \| claim \| colony \| copyhold \| de facto \| de jure \| dependency \| derivative title \| equitable estate \| estate at sufferance \| estate for life \| estate for years \| estate in expectancy \| estate in fee \| estate in possession \| estate tail \| farm \| farm out \| fee \| fee fief \| fee position \| fee simple \| fee simple absolute \| fee simple conditional \| fee simple defeasible \| fee simple determinable \| fee tail \| feod \| feodum \| feud \| feudal estate \| fief \| fiefdom \| frankalmoign \| free socage \| freehold \| gavelkind \| having title to \| hire \| hire out \| hiring \| hold \| holding \| job \| knight service \| lay fee \| lease out \| lease-back \| leasehold \| lease-lend \| legal claim \| legal estate \| legal possession \| lend-lease \| let \| let off \| let out \| mandate \| occupancy \| occupation \| original title \| owning \| paramount estate \| particular estate \| possessing \| possession \| preoccupancy \| preoccupation \| prepossession \| prescription \| property \| property rights \| proprietary rights \| remainder \| rent \| rent out \| rental \| reversion \| seisin \| socage \| squatting \| sublease \| sublet \| subrent \| tenancy \| tenantry \| tenure \| tenure in chivalry \| title \| underlease \| underlet \| undertenancy \| usucapion \| vested estate \| villein socage \| villeinhold \| villenage See Also \| acquire \| belongings \| car rental \| contract \| contract \| farm out \| get \| give \| hire car \| hire out \| holding \| material possession \| period \| period of time \| property \| rent out \| rent-a-car \| self-drive \| sublease \| sublease \| sublet \| sublet \| time period \| u-drive \| undertake \| you-drive Lease In Webster's Dictionary \Lease\, v. i. [AS. lesan to gather; akin to D. lezen to gather, read, G. lesen, Goth. lisan to gather; cf. Lith lesti to peck.] To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.] --Dryden. \Lease\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leasing}.] [F. laisser, OF. laissier, lessier, to leave, transmit, L. laxare to loose, slacken, from laxus loose, wide. See {Lax}, and cf. {Lesser}.] 1. To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out. There were some [houses] that were leased out for three lives. --Addison. 2. To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner. \Lease\, n. [Cf. OF. lais. See {Lease}, v. t.] 1. A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation. 2. The contract for such letting. 3. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time. Our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature. --Shak. {Lease and release} a mode of conveyance of freehold estates, formerly common in England and in New York. its place is now supplied by a simple deed of grant. --Burrill. --Warren's Blackstone.

Lease Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lease?

[n] a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment
[n] property that is leased or rented out or let
[n] the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect
[v] engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
[v] grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
[v] let for money; of housing
[v] hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

Lease In Webster's Dictionary

\Lease\, v. i. [AS. lesan to gather; akin to D. lezen to
gather, read, G. lesen, Goth. lisan to gather; cf. Lith lesti
to peck.]
To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.]
--Dryden.


\Lease\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leased}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Leasing}.] [F. laisser, OF. laissier, lessier, to leave,
transmit, L. laxare to loose, slacken, from laxus loose,
wide. See {Lax}, and cf. {Lesser}.]
1. To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of
   lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise;
   as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes
   with out.

         There were some [houses] that were leased out for
         three lives.                          --Addison.

2. To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant
   leases his land from the owner.


\Lease\, n. [Cf. OF. lais. See {Lease}, v. t.]
1. A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments
   to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or
   for any less interest than that which the lessor has in
   the property, usually for a specified rent or
   compensation.

2. The contract for such letting.

3. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such
   a tenure holds good; allotted time.

         Our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of
         nature.                               --Shak.

{Lease and release} a mode of conveyance of freehold estates,
   formerly common in England and in New York. its place is
   now supplied by a simple deed of grant. --Burrill.
   --Warren's Blackstone.

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