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  2. Lend-Lease - Wikipedia

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    President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (March 1941). House of Representatives bill # 1776, p.1. Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (Pub. L. 77–11, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 31, enacted March 11, 1941), [1] [2] was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the ...

  3. Government rent in Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    The Joint Declaration sets out in its Annex III provisions in regard to, inter alia (among other things), the grant of new land leases and the extension of non-renewable land leases. In accordance with Annex III to the Joint Declaration, between 27 May 1985 and 30 June 1997, new leases of land were granted by the Hong Kong Government for a term ...

  4. 99-year lease - Wikipedia

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    William Blackstone (1723–1781, of Commentaries on the Laws of England fame) states that a lease was formerly limited to 40 years, although much longer leases (for 300 years, or 1000 years) were in use by the time of Edward III. [3] The 40-year limit was based on the text The Mirror of Justices (book 2, chapter 27).

  5. Bureau of Land Management - Wikipedia

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    The agency has granted more than 18,000 permits and leases to ranchers who graze their livestock, mostly cattle and sheep, at least part of the year on BLM public lands. [55] Permits and leases generally cover a 10-year period and are renewable if the BLM determines that the terms and conditions of the expiring permit or lease are being met. [55]

  6. 999-year leases in Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    The US Consulate had an option to buy the plot as a freehold in its 1950 lease, but this was eliminated in 1999 in exchange for the 999-year lease. [2] The only current freehold in all of Hong Kong belongs to St John's Cathedral, which was granted freehold in 1847 with perpetual ownership under the condition that the land be used as a church. [1]

  7. Ground rent - Wikipedia

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    In Roman law, ground rent (solarium) was an annual rent payable by the lessee of a superficies (a piece of land), or perpetual lease of building land. [5] In early Norman England, tenants could lease their title to land so that the land-owning lords did not have any power over the sub-tenant to collect taxes.

  8. Land tenure - Wikipedia

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    Foreigners cannot buy and own land, like in many other Southeast Asian countries. Instead, the land is collectively owned by all Vietnamese people, but governed by the state. As written in the national Land Law, foreigners and foreign organizations are allowed to lease land. The leasehold period is up to 50 years. [20] [21]

  9. Property law - Wikipedia

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    Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land) and personal property.Property refers to legally protected claims to resources, such as land and personal property, including intellectual property. [1]