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Foregift

Foregift, a premium for a lease, frequently forbidden to be taken for an ecclesiastical lease; see, e.g., the (English) Ecclesiastical Leases Act, 1842 (5

cancel

remedies for breach of all or part of the contract. c : to put an end to (a lease contract) because of the default of the other party NOTE: Under U.C.C. section 2A-505, a party that cancels

charter

a written instrument from the authorities of a society creating a lodge, branch, or chapter 3 : a lease of a ship esp. for the delivery of cargo called also charter party vt 1 : to establish,

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concession

right to undertake a specified activity for profit on another's real property [a logging ] e : a lease that grants a right to engage in a profitable activity on another's real property ;also : the property

ground rent

himself or herself or his or her heirs by the grantor of land in fee simple, on perpetual lease, or on lease for a renewable term of years NOTE: Ground rent in this sense is found chiefly

lessee

lessee : a person who has possession of real or personal property under a lease ;specif : a tenant of real property under a lease

let

let let let·ting vt 1 : to offer or grant for rent, lease, or hire : lease [may not be alienated, , or encumbered] [corporeal things may be out] 2 :

tenancy

when one remains in possession of property after the expiration of the previous tenancy (as one under a lease), that may be established as a tenancy at will by the recognition of the landlord (as by accepting

Lessee

The person to whom a lease is given or who takes an estate by lease

Advowson

a mortgage, it will reunite when the loan is repaid. So, if the advowson be excepted in a lease of the corporeal inheritance, it remains in gross during the lease, but upon its expiration it becomes appendant

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