Before the USA had entered that conflict, the British Government had granted it a free, 99-year base lease in Bermuda, along with a similar grant in Newfoundland for what became the Ernest Harmon Air Force Base.

But, an Interior Department memo said, “ a 99-year lease is in the nature of a conveyance of the land .” These battles over land had their beginnings in the 1870s when federal policy often related to wholesale taking, not leases.

In Bruun, a taxpayer-landlord repossessed a property from a tenant — property that had been subject to a 99-year lease — after the tenant failed to pay rent and taxes.

At the same time the Middlesex Hospital expanded on land they had obtained on a 99-year lease around Mortimer Street, encroaching on Riding House and Cleveland Streets.

This had a knock-on effect during its later redevelopment in the late 19th / early 20th centuries when rebuilding was dictated by the expiration of individual buildings ’ 99-year leases, and is subsequently evident in the buildings in existence today.

Weeghman had purchased a 99-year lease on the property, which would presumably expire in the year 2013.

By the late 1970s, it had become a public concern in colonial Hong Kong that the 99-year land lease of the New Territories, a major region of Hong Kong, to Britain would expire in around 20 years.

Transurban, which owns and operates the CityLink tollway in Melbourne and the M2 Hills Motorway toll road in Sydney, said that it had agreed to acquire a 99-year concession on the Pocahontas Parkway for a total cost of $ US611 million ( A $ 815 million ).

In 1898, Britain obtained a 99-year lease for the New Territories, extending the Hong Kong colony that had been ceded in 1841.

Although Hong Kong Island and Kowloon had been ceded to the United Kingdom in perpetuity, the control on the New Territories was a 99-year lease.

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These serf sub-castes had mi bogs (), or human lease if translated literally.

By early 1984, after the Colts ' lease on the dilapidated 64, 124 seat Memorial Stadium had expired, Irsay wanted the city of Baltimore to upgrade the stadium or build a new one.

If you are unsure if GAP coverage had been purchased, you should check your vehicle lease or purchase documentation.

Of course, irredentism could be considered to have played a role in that the People's Republic of China had no intention of renewing the lease on the New Territories.

Under the terms of an agreed lease, the Japanese government had the right to station its troops in the area around the South Manchurian Railway, a major trade route between the two countries, in the Chinese region of Manchuria.

Landlords therefore owned the base metals and coal under their estates and had a strong inducement to extract them or to lease the deposits and collect royalties from mine operators.

As the Jets sought to become a stronger franchise and remove themselves from their counterparts ' shadow, the team entered into negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in an attempt to build a stadium on the west side of Manhattan, entering a bidding war with TransGas Energy Systems and Cablevision for the rights to the West Side Yard property — Hess, prior to his death, had been approached by former mayor Rudy Giuliani about bringing the team to the West Side when their lease at Giants Stadium expired in 2008.

Defeated, the Jets agreed to enter a 50 – 50 partnership with their rival, the Giants, to build a new stadium effectively agreeing to a 99 year lease, which the Giants had signed earlier in the year, to remain in New Jersey.

Since then the publication of a series of world catalogues specializing in world phonecards, the hobby has had a new lease of life with people collecting as a hobby and for investment.

By the end of the season, Short had issued an ultimatum: unless someone was willing to buy the Senators for $ 12 million ( in comparison, the New York Yankees were sold in 1973 for $ 8. 8 million ), he would not proceed to renew the stadium lease and move the team elsewhere.

Cramer had paid $ 40, 000 in Veteran funds to a private landholder to lease land to build a Veterans Hospital in Camp Kearny, California.

Sweden, which had already agreed to lease Swedish Pomerania as a military base for British troops against France, formally entered the coalition on 9 August.

Early copyright law had begun to undercut the Stationers, and the university took pains to lease out its bible work to experienced printers.

He agreed with the Athenians, who had been so far unable to conquer Amphipolis, which commanded the gold mines of Mount Pangaion, to lease it to them after its conquest, in exchange for Pydna ( lost by Macedon in 363 ).

The plaintiffs claimed the defendants had misrepresented the asset value of Subway Sandwich Shops ( a leasing company used by Doctor's Associates for franchising purposes ) while negotiating a 1985 lease agreement.

Downing planned to build a row of townhouses designed " for persons of good quality to inhabit in ..." However, the Hampden family had a lease which prevented construction of the houses for thirty years.

On September 1, 2011 Pfizer announced that it had agreed to a 10-year lease of more than 180, 000 square feet of research space from MIT in a building to be constructed at 610 Main Street South, just north of the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.

In the 1920s Jack Tremayne's love of Italy, which had earlier inspired the Italian Garden, led him to set up permanent home there, and lease out Heligan.

It was reported by BBC News and ITV Channel Television on 17 May 2008 that the tenants had put the remaining 40 years of their lease up for sale, with an asking price of £ 15, 000, 000.

In September 2008 it was announced that Starboard Settlement, a trust, had acquired the remainder of the lease for considerably less than the asking price.

The Disneys had secured a year's lease with the venue that was fully equipped with Fantasound, which took personnel a week working around the clock to install.

It was during the Hundred Years ' War that the town took on a new lease of life, as the heir apparent, the future Charles VII of France, had sought refuge in 1418 in the province.

In any case, he had no intention of being caught asleep, so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence.

He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.

He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

Morgan returned to the kitchen, built a fire, and carried in several buckets of water from the spring which he poured into the copper boiler that he had placed on the stove.

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand, the stock bumping on the wood floor.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.

But it had missed the bone and had passed on through.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.

He scrubbed absent-mindedly at the pans and reflected on how things had turned out.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

I had signed it off on the forms.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was to him that Barton had sent Carl Dill on Dill's release from the prison.