Brewer v Jacobs: 1923

A proviso for re-entry in a tenancy is inapplicable to a statutory tenancy. It is concerned with the forfeiture of an existing term and can have no application after the contractual term has expired. Once the statutory tenancy has come into being, the tenant and landlord can look only to the statute creating the tenancy for protection, and not to common law principles.

Citations:

[1923] 1 KB 528

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedCadogan Estates Limited v McMahon HL 26-Oct-2000
When a tenancy was terminated and was followed by a statutory tenancy, a term in the contractual tenancy that the tenancy should be forfeit on the tenant’s bankruptcy was continued in and inherited by the statutory tenancy. Though perhaps in . .
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Landlord and Tenant

Updated: 25 November 2022; Ref: scu.196914