And the following year, the Japanese stood right up and made a terrific offer for the lease of rights."

The court, after reserving judgment, held that the "contract" was essentially a "lease of rights to minerals in land" in terms of the section.

The town voted to allow "leasing of rights to build shanties on Town Farm Road.

In 1711, he obtained the lease of rights to undertake the Trent Navigation from Lord Paget.

Teapot Dome scandal: The 1922 lease of rights to the Wyoming's Teapot Dome oil field, granted by then U.S. Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall in return for personal favors, was held to be invalid by unanimous decision of U.S. Supreme Court.

Following the 1923 transfer of the Ross Dependency (Antarctica) to New Zealand, and the New Zealand Government's lease of rights, the giant Norwegian whaler, C.A. Larsen, became the largest vessel serviced in the Otago Dock, Port Chalmers, in April 1928.