Rent recovery

Ferris, Jonathan

Rent recovery - 2005 - Solicitors' Journal 149(29) 22 July 2005, 878-879(2) .

Suggests that landlords of commercial property can avoid the delays associated with litigation to recover rent by using their right to levy distress or forfeit the lease by peaceable re-entry. Considers the procedure for, and exceptions to, levying distress and how to forfeit a lease. Case law.


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