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Landlord and Tenant Act, 1927

goodwill. Other provisions of the Act ameliorate the position of the tenant with regard to breaches of repairing covenants and also with regard to covenants against assignment, covenants against improvements without consent and covenants against alteration of

Notice

[see (English) LAW OF PROPERTY ACT, 1925], or acquired after 1925, and if registrable, not registered; (3) restrictive covenants and equitable easements created before 1926; (4) estate contracts made before 1926, unless the benefit has been acquired

Renewal of lease

contains a covenant by the lessor for renewal, this convenant is commonly subject to the condition that the covenants in the lease shall have been performed by the lessee, and this condition is strongly enforced by the

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Under-lease

whole interest, and passes to the assignee the right and liability to sue and be sued upon the covenants in the original lease. An under-lease for the whole term of the original lease amounts to an assignment,

Deed

any condition or covenant respecting land or other property. The better opinion is that the s. relates to covenants only which run with the land or property. See COVENANT. Before this statute, however, a person not named

Restrictive Covenant

Miles v. Easter, 1933 Ch 611. Under the Land Charges Act, 1925, s. 10, Class D (ii), restrictive covenants made after 31st December, 1925, must be registered as a land charge (q.v.), and under s. 13, if

Land charge

(q.v.). The fourth, Class D, in this register affects (i) Inland Revenue charges for death duties, (ii) restrictive covenants created after 1925 except covenants in leases, and (iii) easements, rights and privileges created after 1925; Class E,

Assignment

Lessor or Lessee, Effect of. A lessor, notwithstanding assignment of his reversion, continues liable to his lessee on covenants running with the land, Stuart v. Joy, 1904 (1) KB 362, and so does a lessee to his

Destruction of buildings

solved. One view is that the tenancy would come to an end, and with its liability on the covenants, for there would no longer be any physical entity which the tenant could hold of his landlord for

Expressum facit cessare tacitum

210 a.-(What is expressed makes what is implied to cease.) See Broom's Max. Where a deed contains express covenants, no implication of any other covenants on the same subject-matter can be raised, Nokes's Case, (1599) 4 Rep

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