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Secure tenancy

Language: English Series: Times ; 1/12/87 p36Publication details: 1987Subject(s): Summary: It was held, in Appleton v Aspin and Others CA 19 November 1987, that even when a landlord had agreed to sell premises with vacant possession to a purchaser, and at the same time the tenant, under a protected tenancy agreed with the purchaser not to enforce against him a right of possession, the court could not grant possession to the purchaser as against the tenant, unless conditions in Rent Act 1977 s98(1) were satisfied.

It was held, in Appleton v Aspin and Others CA 19 November 1987, that even when a landlord had agreed to sell premises with vacant possession to a purchaser, and at the same time the tenant, under a protected tenancy agreed with the purchaser not to enforce against him a right of possession, the court could not grant possession to the purchaser as against the tenant, unless conditions in Rent Act 1977 s98(1) were satisfied.