Assignment
Assignment
- 1999
- Estates Gazette Case Summaries [1999] EGCS 45 (10/4/99) .
"Parc Battersea Ltd and another v Hutchinson" ChD 18 March 1999. Four-month business tenancy excluded from Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. Tenant purporting by oral agreement to sublet to defendant for term of not less than 16 months. Freeholde claiming possession. Defendant claiming benefit of sublease protected by 1954 Act. Whether defendant took no more than residue of tenant`s interest by way of assignment. Whether alleged assignnment subject to formality provisions of Law of Property Act 1925. Judgement for freeholder.
LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT 1954
LAW OF PROPERTY ACT 1925
ORAL AGREEMENT
PARC BATTERSEA LTD AND ANOTHER V HUTCHINSON
"Parc Battersea Ltd and another v Hutchinson" ChD 18 March 1999. Four-month business tenancy excluded from Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. Tenant purporting by oral agreement to sublet to defendant for term of not less than 16 months. Freeholde claiming possession. Defendant claiming benefit of sublease protected by 1954 Act. Whether defendant took no more than residue of tenant`s interest by way of assignment. Whether alleged assignnment subject to formality provisions of Law of Property Act 1925. Judgement for freeholder.
LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT 1954
LAW OF PROPERTY ACT 1925
ORAL AGREEMENT
PARC BATTERSEA LTD AND ANOTHER V HUTCHINSON