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Latin. An agreement or bargain to grant a lease is equal to the lease itself. If a landlord enters into a missive of lease with one proposing to become his tenant, binding himself to let the lands, and to execute a regular lease at a future period, the missive is as binding, if possession by the tenant followed upon it, as the lease would have been if then executed. Rei interventus, if to a sufficient extent, has, in this respect, the same effect as possession. Thus, improvements made upon the land on the faith of such missives, if made in the knowledge of and ...