LEASE
\lˈiːs], \lˈiːs], \l_ˈiː_s]\
Definitions of LEASE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Legal Glossary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment
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grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
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let for money; "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"
By Princeton University
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a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment
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grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
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let for money; of housing
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
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To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
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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.
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The contract for such letting.
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Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
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To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
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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.
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The contract for such letting.
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Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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An oral or written agreement (a contract) between two people concerning the use by one of the property of the other. A person can lease real estate (such as an apartment or business property) or personal property (such as a car or a boat). A lease should cover basic issues such as when the lease will begin and end, the rent or other costs, how payments should be made, and any restrictions on the use of the property. The property owner is often called the "lessor," and the person using the property is called the "lessee."
By Oddity Software
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A written contract for the renting of land or buildings for a certain period of time; the time for which a property is rented.
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To grant possession for a certain time by a written contract; as, an owner leases a house to a tenant; take possession of by contract; as, a tenant leases a house from the owner.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A letting of tenements for a term of years: the contract for such letting: any tenure.
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To let for a term of years:-pr.p. leasing; pa.t. and pa.p. leased.
By Daniel Lyons
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A letting of tenements for a term of years: the contract for such letting: any tenure.
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Let or hold on lease.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.