“A lease is properly a conveyance of any lands or tenements, (usually in consideration of rent or other annual recompense) made for life, for years, or at will, but always for a less time than the lessor hath in the premises: for if it be for the whole interest, it is more properly an assignment than a lease. The usual words of operation in it are, ‘demise, grant, and to farm let; dimisi, concessi, et ad firmam tradidi.’ ” 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 317–18 (1766).
farm let
farm let, vb. Hist. To lease; to let land for rent. • To farm let is a phrasal verb that commonly appeared in real-property leases; it corresponds with its Latin root, ad firmam tradidi.
