EMPHYTEOSIS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  EMPHYTEOSIS, civil law. The name of a contract by which the owner of an 
  uncultivated piece of land granted it to another either in perpetuity, or 
  for a long time, on condition that he should: improve it, by building, 
  planting or cultivating it, and should pay for it an annual rent; with a 
  right to the grantee to alienate it, or transmit it by descent to his heirs, 
  and under a condition that the grantor should never re-enter as long as the 


  rent should be paid to him by the grantee or his assigns. Inst. 3, 25, 3. 18 
  Toull. n. 144. 
       2. This has a striking resemblance to a ground-tent. (q.v.). See 
  Nouveau Denisart, mot, Emphyteose; Merl. Reper. mot Emphyteose; Faber, De 
  jure emphyt. Definit. 36; Code, 4, 66, 1.