lease for lives

English

Alternative forms
  • lease of lives

Noun

lease for lives (plural leases for lives)

  1. (Britain, historical) A type of lease of property, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, which named three individuals – the "lives" – and expired upon the death of all three.
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