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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

University of Vermont & State Agricultural College v. Ward, 158 A. 778 (1932)

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University of Vermont & State Agricultural College v. Ward, 158 A. 778 (1932)
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University of Vermont & State Agricultural College v. Ward, 158 A. 778 (1932)
Jurisdiction
Vermont (state)
Effective Date
1932-02-04

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rent or the non-performance of the conditions. * * * The objection to these instruments is that they are for a term equivalent to an estate in fee; but leases of short duration tend to discourage agricultural enterprise and improvement, and, in the ease of wild lands, are wholly impracticable, and we are satisfied that the Legislature in conferring the authority ‘to lease’ such lands had reference to the meaning of that word according to its popular use rather than to its strict technical definition. ’ ’