Expired leases, joint tenants and insolvency.
Series: Solicitors' Journal ; 143(34) 10 September 1999, 836-837(2)Publication details: 1999Subject(s): Summary: Considers De Rothschild v Bell in which aspects of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 part 1 were at issue. It was held that when a contractual tenancy is held by joint tenants, but only one of them is resident when the tenancy expires, that tenant is entitled to protection under the act. However this Part 1 continuation tenancy was described as being hybrid: 'not a new tenancy or a statutory tenancy; it is merely the old contractual tenancy continued indefinitely by the act'.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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Considers De Rothschild v Bell in which aspects of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 part 1 were at issue. It was held that when a contractual tenancy is held by joint tenants, but only one of them is resident when the tenancy expires, that tenant is entitled to protection under the act. However this Part 1 continuation tenancy was described as being hybrid: 'not a new tenancy or a statutory tenancy; it is merely the old contractual tenancy continued indefinitely by the act'.