Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-LEASE, n.

1. Liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.
2. Liberation from care, pain or any burden.
3. Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty or claim of any kind; acquittance.
4. In law, a release or deed of release is a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim. The efficient words in such an instrument are, “remised, released, and forever quitclaimed.” – Blackstone.