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001			ABS41264
008			090401t1989 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
035			_a(Sirsi) u29242
041			_aeng
245			_aVenetian Glass Gallery Ltd v Next Properties Ltd
260			_c1989
350			_a0
490			_aEstates Gazette _v(1989) 30 EG 92-100(5)
520			_aChD 22 December 1988 Motion treated by agreement as the trial of the action. V claimed, in an action against N, declarations that consent had been unreasonably withheld to the proposed assignment of the lease. V had agreed to sell the lease to another company in 1988. Among the lease covenants was a clause forbidding the use of the premises otherwise than as a retail shop for display and sale of Venetian glassware and a qualified covenant against the assignment of the premises or any part thereof. Arrangements for obtaining landlords` consent appeared to be proceeding smoothly until the new landlords purported to refuse or rescind the licence to assign and permission for the change of use . V sought declarations that consent had been unreasonably refused. The main points at issue were: 1) whether a letter from the then landlords` solicitors was an effective consent to assignment and 2) whether engrossment and sealing of a formal licence by these solicitors (before transfer of the rev
650			_aBUSINESS TENANCIES
690			_aLANDLORD AND TENANT-CASE LAW-BUSINESS TENANCIES
942			_n0
948			_c04/03/1997
999			_c19691 _d19691