The landlord’s forfeiture of a lease, having once been accepted by the tenant, the landlord could not then withdraw the forfeiture against the tenant’s wishes. He had raised an estoppel precluding him from denying that he had forfeited the lease.
Citations:
Independent 28-Oct-1994, Times 26-Oct-1994, [1995] 1 WLR 1088
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Rother District Investments Limited v Corke, Orr, Richards ChD 20-Jan-2004
The court was asked as to the legal effect of a purported peaceable re-entry and forfeiture of a lease by a purchaser of the reversion prior to registration of the purchaser as proprietor at HM Land Registry.
Held: The appeal was denied. What . .
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Landlord and Tenant
Updated: 08 April 2022; Ref: scu.80720