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1570. Walsingham, in Wills Doctors’ Comm. (Camden), 70. All my leases, or so many of them as then shall remayne unsoulde and unexpired.
1635. Quarles, Embl., V. x. 281. She … begs th’ untimely date Of unexpired thraldome, to release Th’ afflicted Captive.
1659. Knaresb. Wills (Surtees), II. 240. Yeares of a lease … which are yet uncome and unexpired.
1778. [W. H. Marshall], Minutes Agric., Observ., 191. The unexpired term of the lease.
1859. J. Lang, Wand. India, 27. The unexpired portion of their leave having been cancelled.
1883. D. C. Murray, Hearts, xxiii. (1885), 189. The unexpired lease of the theatre was supposed to be worth a thousand.
