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for (two, three, etc.) lives
c. Law. for (two, three, etc.) lives: until the death of the last survivor of (two, three, etc.) specified persons (with reference to the length of time a lease, grant, gift, etc., is to remain in force ). Cf. also a (new) lease of life at lease n.3 2. Now historical.
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1576 Act 18 Eliz. c. 6 §1 That no Master, Provoste [etc.]..shall make anye Lease for lief lieves or yeeres, of anie ferme [etc.].
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 37 As men buy Leases, for three lives and downward.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables (1708) xci. 106 A Gentleman that had an Estate for Lives, and two of his Tenants in the Lease... The Man..had Poyson'd himself, and the Revenge upon his Landlord was the Defeating him of his Estate by Destroying the Last Life in the Lease.
1731 Phœnix Britannicus 86 Sir John Munson..to settle 50l. per annum for two lives.
1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 71 The disposal of farms for three lives is generally by what are provincially termed surveys.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 156 He obtained a pension of four thousand pounds a year for two lives on the post office. He had made great sums out of the estates of traitors.
1885 Act 48 & 49 Victoria c. 77 §7 If any land is comprised in a lease for a life or lives.
1920 S. Williston & C. M. Lewis Law Contracts 1770 That was a suit to enforce a contract assignees were entitled to recover the to purchase an estate for two lives.
1999 Oxoniensia 63 27 Oswald leases land at Golder in Pyrton to his man Aethelmund for two lives.
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