Summary
Contents
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This clear and accessible book covers all aspects of commercial leases, from receipt of instructions to termination. Fully up-to-date with all recent cases relating to the lease-licence distinction, Land Registry requirements, the recent changes to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Pt II and the new regulations for the execution of deeds, its detailed explanation of the underlying principles of this complex area of the law - and their practical application - makes it a valuable text for all students taking undergraduate commercial property options, as well as those taking the LPC and the BVC.
Leases
Leases
3.1 Introduction
Interests in land are often described and defined by reference to the remedies available for their protection. Leases have their origin in the Middle Ages when the common law regarded them as personal contracts outside the system of tenures and estates, and protected them as such. This meant that a dispossessed tenant had only an action in trespass for damages. From 1235, a dispossessed tenant could take action for recovery of the land against his landlord and, from the end of the fifteenth century, against anyone. Thus, having complete protection, a lease became an estate in land, and so the Law of Property Act 1925 declares that a lease – a ‘term of years absolute’ as it is there called – is one ...
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