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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.
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