A landlord may reasonably refuse consent to an assignment of a lease where the result of the assignment would inevitably be a breach of a user covenant.
Citations:
(1963) 187 EG 391
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Ashworth Frazer Limited v Gloucester City Council HL 8-Nov-2001
A lease contained a covenant against assignment without the Landlord’s consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld. The tenant asserted, pace Killick, that the landlord could not refuse consent on the grounds that the proposed tenant might . .
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Landlord and Tenant
Updated: 07 December 2022; Ref: scu.187996