Lilley v. Fifty Associates

On the 8th of September 1817 David Sears made a lease to Uriah Cotting of a lot of land on Market Street (now *433Cornhill) in Boston for the term of one thousand years, yielding and paying “ the yearly rent of ten tons of the first quality of Russia Old Sables iron, to be delivered on the premises,” in four equal quarterly payments on the first days of March, June, September and December during the term ; with a right on the part of the lessor, his heirs and assigns, upon any failure to pay rent for thirty days after it should become due, or fifteen days after demand thereof, to enter for breach…