A landlord can be responsible for the acts of nuisance of his tenant if he has authorised the tenant to do the acts.
Citations:
[1876] 35 LT 240
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Hussain and Another v Lancaster City Council CA 14-May-1998
It was suggested that a landlord, or at least a local authority landlord, who knows or ought to know of a nuisance being committed in the neighbourhood of the demised premises, but who fails to take such steps as are reasonable in all the . .
Cited – Smith v Scott ChD 1973
It is not open to the court to reshape the law relating to the rights and liabilities of landowners by applying the principle of Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 and thus saying that a landowner owed a duty of care to his neighbour when selecting . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Landlord and Tenant, Nuisance
Updated: 06 May 2022; Ref: scu.186070
