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Estates Gazette Ltd v Benjamin Restaurants Ltd & another

Language: English Series: Estates Gazette ; (1993) 48 EG 131-133(3)Publication details: 1993Subject(s): Summary: QBD 25 May 1993. B, an assignee and its surety, signed a deed in 1980 covenanting to pay the rent set by the lease. A third party took over the lease three years later. In 1993 the plaintiffs claimed 15 months` rent arrears from B which was granted at court with interest. B`s appeal was allowed as the court decided that liability should be limited by privity of of contract. A continuing obligation was considered too onerous to be imparted by the imprecise wording of the original deed.
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QBD 25 May 1993. B, an assignee and its surety, signed a deed in 1980 covenanting to pay the rent set by the lease. A third party took over the lease three years later. In 1993 the plaintiffs claimed 15 months` rent arrears from B which was granted at court with interest. B`s appeal was allowed as the court decided that liability should be limited by privity of of contract. A continuing obligation was considered too onerous to be imparted by the imprecise wording of the original deed.