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Landlord and tenant: A promise is a promise
David Harris considers the outcome of a case involving a mutual enforcement covenant and its implications ‘Landlords are much less likely in the future to agree to a tenant doing something perfectly reasonable and well-intentioned that would technically be in breach of an absolute covenant in the tenant’s lease.’ It cannot be often that the …
Cases Referenced
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- Caines v Smith (1847) 15 M & W 188
- Duval v 11-13 Randolph Crescent Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 2298
- Marks & Spencer plc v BNP Paribas Securities Services Trust Co (Jersey) Ltd & anor [2015] UKSC 72
- Short v Stone (1846) 8 QB 358