Detrick Field was formally leased from the City of Frederick in 1940 (having previously been leased from the state for just 2 weeks per year).

Though chartered as an independent entity in 1867, control of Missisquoi Railroad was gained shortly thereafter, and it was formally leased in July 1873, providing a branch from St. Albans northeast to Richford.

The full line opened on January 1, 1850 under operation of the Housatonic, and was formally leased January 25.

After the land had been formally leased to the British military command, club rules were licensed and the land was divided into several recreational playing grounds.

It was not formally leased to the Reading until January 1, 1929, and was merged into the Reading Company on December 1, 1947.

The PRR's Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road was formally leased to the PW&B on November 1, 1891.

It was formally leased to the Pennsylvania in 1869 and in 1870-71 the Pennsylvania Company, one of the first of the holding companies, was created to take over the properties west of Pittsburgh which were developing into large northwest and southwest systems.

In 1985, Crown Reserve 39102 was excised from the pastoral lease and vested to the ALT for the "use and benefit of Aboriginal inhabitants", with the Reserve being formally leased to Mulan Aboriginal Corporation the following year.

The site was formally leased for prisoner housing in 1803 after fifteen French fishermen, three surgeons, and 188 seamen were brought to Halifax as prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars.

On April 2, 1891, the railroad and property of the Syracuse, Ontario and New York Railway Company were formally leased, for the term of its corporate existence, to the West Shore Railroad Company on June 30, 1891.