lease for lives (English, noun)
expansion: lease for lives (plural leases for lives)
Senses:
topics: law
glosses: 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.
tags: England
Wales
historical
Forms:
form: leases for lives
tags: plural
form: lease of lives
tags: alternative