Two copies of the notice to quit were served at the defendant’s house, one on the servant and the other on a lady at the house. The defendant complained that this was not good enough.
Held: Abbott CJ had no doubt as to the sufficiency of a notice served at the tenant’s home, even though the tenant was away: ‘were it otherwise, a landlord would have no means of determining a tenancy, if his tenant happened to be absent from his house at the time when it was necessary to serve the notice’.
[1826] EngR 1291, (1826) M and M 10, (1826) 173 ER 1062
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Cited – Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood SC 25-Apr-2018
Notice of dismissal begins when received by worker
The court was asked: ‘If an employee is dismissed on written notice posted to his home address, when does the notice period begin to run? Is it when the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post? Or when it was in fact . .
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Updated: 19 July 2021; Ref: scu.326055