Friends` Provident Life Office v British Railways Board
Friends` Provident Life Office v British Railways Board
- 1995
- Estates Gazette (1995) 48 EG 106-112(7) .
CA 25 July 1995. The appellant landlord`s predecessor in title granted an underlease to the respondent`s statutory predecessor, British Transport Commission. A deed of variation in 1985 varied the terms of the underlease. The rent payable for the premises was increased from £12,000 to £35,000 pa. The court originally dismissed the landlord`s claim for arrears of rent against the respondent as original tenant, after a subsequent assignee defaulted payment. Landlord`s appeal allowed on grounds that respondent liable under the terms of its original covenant to pay the increased rent, or at least the original rent.
COMMERCIAL LEASES
LEASES
ORIGINAL TENANT
PERSONAL COVENANT
SURRENDER OF LEASE
VARIATION OF TERMS
CA 25 July 1995. The appellant landlord`s predecessor in title granted an underlease to the respondent`s statutory predecessor, British Transport Commission. A deed of variation in 1985 varied the terms of the underlease. The rent payable for the premises was increased from £12,000 to £35,000 pa. The court originally dismissed the landlord`s claim for arrears of rent against the respondent as original tenant, after a subsequent assignee defaulted payment. Landlord`s appeal allowed on grounds that respondent liable under the terms of its original covenant to pay the increased rent, or at least the original rent.
COMMERCIAL LEASES
LEASES
ORIGINAL TENANT
PERSONAL COVENANT
SURRENDER OF LEASE
VARIATION OF TERMS