I think some of these commonlaw lease references exist for those cases where there is no clear evidence of said lease.  In this case, I don't know how far a verbal lease gets you if you come to a disagreement, I've gone away from verbal leases even with close family the last 5 years or a little longer just to prevent any kind of "gray area".  I lease my home farm to a group of hunters, and in my lease contract it's clearly stated that the rights are for deer and turkey hunting only, and there is no option for them to sublet the property to anyone else outside of their group, there's two guys on the "lease", and there is an attached list to the contract of other people authorized to hunt, which is 4 folks.  Lease states I find anyone but those 4 on the property without my written authorization I have the option to terminate the lease.  On the flip side, I lease 60 acres from a family member that joins my property for growing crops.  My lease with them clearly states crop use, and they have their hunting rights leased to another person.  I honestly don't know what the law does read about that in Kentucky, but I have never heard of any tenant who holds dominion over who hunts on property that they are renting from someone.  Here's it's always (that I am aware of, and I know many) two different leases.  Heck, I know of one farm that has four different leases on it, a house renter, a farmer that rents the 4 chicken houses on the property, a 300 acre crop rent and a 150 acre pasture rent.  No way should the initial crop lessee get to sublet the house, the chicken houses and the pasture rent.