A lease can be best described in any number of ways, as long as the names of the parties, descripiton of the property, rent amount, and duration of lease are included. Sometimes in the rental / lease contract the words "to let" or "to demise" , (another way to say "to rent") , will be found, but those words are always optional. Actually when i was in college i leased a house for my junior and senior years. On the lease contract it had the words "to demise" I asked the landlord what that meant and even took a dictionary to verify that. Leases (3 comments)