L. Lat A demise or letting. Chiefly used in the phrase ex demissione (on the demise), which formed part of the title of the cause in the old actions of ejectment, where it signified that the nom-inal plaintiff (a fictitious person) held the estate “on the demise” of, that is, by a lease from, the real plaintiff
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
