Lease Timber Reservation
Lord Thomas grants a 99-year lease of Blackacre Manor to Squire Edmund. The deed expressly carves out all timber rights as a forprise, allowing the grantor to enter and harvest oak for shipbuilding.
Also known as: forprised · forprises · forprising · exception · reservation
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An exception or reservation. The term was frequently used in leases and conveyances to carve out specified interests or rights from the grant.
Lord Thomas grants a 99-year lease of Blackacre Manor to Squire Edmund. The deed expressly carves out all timber rights as a forprise, allowing the grantor to enter and harvest oak for shipbuilding.
Widow Agatha conveys Whiteacre Farm to her son Henry. The deed reserves all subsurface mineral rights as a forprise, permitting the grantor to retain royalties from any future coal extraction.
Squire Reginald transfers Greenhill Estate to his nephew William. The conveyance instrument includes a forprise preserving the grantor's right to draw water from the mill pond for the adjacent home farm.
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Baroness Eleanor deeds Meadowbrook to tenant farmer John. The deed expressly excepts a forprise allowing the baroness's heirs to hunt deer on the western woodlot each autumn.
Viscount Charles conveys Hilltop Grange to his daughter Mary. The recorded deed contains a forprise retaining the right to graze twenty sheep on the south meadow for the life of the grantor.
Squire James transfers Riverdale to his cousin Robert. The conveyance deed includes a forprise that reserves the grantor's perpetual right to fish the mill stream with rod and line.
Forprise denotes an exception or reservation carved out of the grant. It allowed parties to exclude specific interests from the conveyance while transferring the remainder.
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A forprise functions identically to a modern reservation or exception but carries the historical label used in older leases and conveyances. Courts treat it as carving out defined rights from the estate granted.
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Yes. A recorded forprise in a senior mortgage modification can preserve priority against junior interests when the change would otherwise be materially prejudicial.
Yes. Noncompliance renders the burden unenforceable and the benefit terminable at will, operating as a statutory forprise to the intended servitude.
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