Definition of Leasehold

1. Noun. Land or property held under a lease.

Generic synonyms: Acres, Demesne, Estate, Land, Landed Estate

Definition of Leasehold

1. a. Held by lease.

2. n. A tenure by lease; specifically, land held as personalty under a lease for years.

Definition of Leasehold

1. Noun. The tenure of property held by a lessee under a lease ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Leasehold

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leasehold

learnt
lears
leas
leasable
lease
lease-lend
lease giver
lease line
leaseability
leaseable
leaseback
leasebacks
leased
leasee
leasees
leasehold (current term)
leaseholder
leaseholders
leaseholds
leaser
leasers
leases
leash
leash up
leashed
leashes
leashing
leashless
leashlike
leasing

Literary usage of Leasehold

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"It is of no consequence that the collector's notice of sale did not specify the leasehold interest as the thing he proposed to sell. His authority to sell, ..."

2. Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening (1844)
"... of the said leasehold estate should prove insufficient to discharge the said annuity of £ , then that such deficiency should be made up out of the rents ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"CEST of leasehold premises, " and all my estate term and interest therein. ... Distinction between bequests of leasehold estate by words in the present and ..."

4. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Estates by sufferance.1 i leasehold interests as chattels real.—These leasehold interests are commonly called "chattels real." The following account of the ..."

5. The Ownership, Tenure and Taxation of Land, Some Facts, Fallacies and by Thomas Palmer Whittaker (1914)
"The purchaser of a leasehold property pays less for it, in proportion to the income he derives from it, than he would for a freehold property yielding the ..."

6. Prideaux's Precedents in Conveyancing: With Dissertations on Its Law and by Frederick Prideaux, John Whitcombe (1899)
"... WHEREAS ana leasehold the said testator was at his death seised and possessed of or Pr°Perty- entitled to divers freehold and leasehold hereditaments, ..."

7. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"\Vhere the future rent is already paid the leasehold of course passes at once. ... Re entry clause gives no lien on proceeds of sale of leasehold: And ..."

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