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Title: Lease on a property
Post by: rla10 on Monday 18 July 11 16:45 BST (UK)

If someone held the lease to a property in the mid 1500s,  did that mean they owned it/lived there?

Title: Re: Lease on a property
Post by: stanmapstone on Monday 18 July 11 17:22 BST (UK)

They did not own it. Leasehold Tenure could be for a term of years, for life, for up to three lives, or at the will of the landlord. In leases for three lives [not necessarily of three generations] the names of three persons had to be recorded.
See http://www.familychest.co.uk/Glossary.htm
Stan