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A 999-year lease is, under historic common law, essentially a nominal lease of property for life. The lease locations are mainly in Britain, her former colonies and Commonwealth. The longest possible term of a lease of real property is legally a 99-year lease.

A number of other land and property leases use a 999-year lease agreement:

Leased Item, Place	Type	Year Leased	Year Lease ends	Lease By	Leased To	Notes
Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario  Canada	parkland	1859	2858	University of Toronto	Province of Canada (Canada West)	park is now home to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and leased to the Government of Ontario
Point Pleasant Park in Halifax, Nova Scotia,  Canada	park	1866	2865	city of Halifax, Nova Scotia	Crown
Commonwealth Institute Building site, London, England  United Kingdom	property	1951	2950	Holland estate	Commonwealth Institute
Pusey House, Oxford, England  United Kingdom	property	1981?	2980	Oxford, England	Oxford University	excluded chapel
The Crystal Palace, London, England  United Kingdom	cost of building venue	1851	2850	Joseph Paxton	seat holders/owners	to financed by the sale of seats for ₤100
Ontario and Quebec Railway - eastern Ontario and Quebec  Canada	railway company	1884	2883	Canadian Pacific Railway	owners of the OQR	now owned by St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway, a subsidiary of the CPR
CFL Fortuna Fish Farming Limited (now Falklands Fish Farming Limited), Falkland Islands Template:FAK	operating license	2007	3006	Government of the Falkland Islands	CFL Fortuna Fish Farming Limited (now Falklands Fish Farming Limited)
Inverhuron Provincial Park, Inverhuron, Ontario,  Canada	park	1973	2972	Ontario Hydro	Ministry of Natural Resources (Ontario)	lease now controlled by Bruce Power
proposed site of Liverpool F.C. stadium, Liverpool, Merseyside, England  United Kingdom	property	2006	3005	Liverpool City Council	Liverpool F.C.	for land on the proposed site of the club's new stadium
Royal Albert Hall, London, England  United Kingdom	financing	1871	2870	The Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences	seat holders/owners	by selling seats and boxes
Millennium Dome, London, England  United Kingdom	property and surrounding land	2001	3000	UK Government	Quintain and Australian retail developer Lend Lease
Hampshire CCC, Hampshire, England  United Kingdom	land	1996	2995	Queen's College	Hampshire CCC	former farmland
St. John's Cathedral, Victoria City, Hong Kong  Hong Kong	church	1847	2846	British Crown[citation needed]	[citation needed]	freehold again; land owned by the Government of Hong Kong

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