† lease-parole Obs.
[f. lease n.3 + parole.]
(See quot. 1672.)
| a 1592 Lodge & Greene Looking Glasse (1598) F 2, Clowne. At night I wil bring home my mistresse. Smith. Euen when you please, good Adam. Clowne. When I please, marke thy words,—'tis a lease parol, to haue and to hold. a 1613 Overbury A Wife (1638) 131 He is tenant by custom to the Planets, of whom hee holds the 12 Houses by lease paroll: paying the yearly rent of his study and time. 1672 Cowel's Interpr. s.v. Parol, Lease-parol, that is Lease per Parol; a Lease by word of mouth, to distinguish it from a Lease in writing. |