English Explanatory Dictionary

lease for lives

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of lease for a term of years determinable, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, which typically named three individuals – the "lives" – and determined upon the death of all three.

Word forms

lease for lives leases for lives lease of lives

Related words

term of years determinable
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