999-year lease

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A 999-year lease is, under historic common law, essentially a nominal lease of property for life. The lease locations are mainly in Britain, her former colonies and Commonwealth. The longest possible term of a lease of real property is often legally a 99-year lease.

A number of other land and property leases use a 999-year lease agreement:

Leased Item	Type	Place	Year term	Lease by	Leased to	Notes
Queen's Park	parkland	Toronto, Ontario  Canada	1859–2858	University of Toronto	Province of Canada (Canada West)	park is now home to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and leased to the Government of Ontario
Point Pleasant	park	Halifax, Nova Scotia,  Canada	1866–2865	city of Halifax, Nova Scotia	Crown
Commonwealth Institute building site	property	London, England  United Kingdom	1951–2950	Holland estate	Commonwealth Institute
Pusey House, Oxford	property	England  United Kingdom	1981–2980	Oxford, England	Oxford University	excluded chapel
The Crystal Palace	cost of building venue	London, England  United Kingdom	1851–2850	Joseph Paxton	seat holders/owners	to financed by the sale of seats for ₤100
Ontario and Quebec Railway	railway company	eastern Ontario and Quebec  Canada	1884–2883	Canadian Pacific Railway	owners of the OQR	now owned by St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway, a subsidiary of the CPR
CFL Fortuna Fish Farming Limited (now Falklands Fish Farming Limited)	operating license	Falkland Islands Template:FAK	2007–3006	government of the Falkland Islands	CFL Fortuna Fish Farming Limited (now Falklands Fish Farming Limited)
Inverhuron Provincial Park	park	Inverhuron, Ontario,  Canada	1973–2972	Ontario Hydro	Ministry of Natural Resources (Ontario)	lease now controlled by Bruce Power
site of proposed Liverpool F.C. stadium	property	Liverpool, Merseyside, England  United Kingdom	2006–3005	Liverpool City Council	Liverpool F.C.	for land on the proposed site of the club's new stadium
Royal Albert Hall	financing	London, England  United Kingdom	1871–2870	The Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences	seat holders/owners	by selling seats and boxes
Millennium Dome	property and surrounding land	London, England  United Kingdom	2001–3000	UK Government	Quintain and Australian retail developer Lend Lease
Hampshire CCC	land	Hampshire, England  United Kingdom	1996–2995	Queen's College [1]	Hampshire County Cricket Club	former farmland
St. John's Cathedral	church	Victoria City, Hong Kong  Hong Kong	1847–2846	British Crown[citation needed]		freehold again; land owned by the Government of Hong Kong
WACA Ground	stadium	Perth, Western Australia, Australia	1889–2888	Government of Western Australia	Western Australian Cricket Association	reclaimed land from the Swan River
Mullaperiyar Dam	dam and water	Cardamom Hills, Kerala  India	1886–2885	Maharaja of Travancore, Visakham Thirunal after 1949State of Travancore-Cochin after 1956Government of Kerala	British Secretary of State for Periyar River Irrigation after 1947Madras State after 1969Government of Tamil Nadu	The lease was made after 24 years of negotiation.

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