A landlord retained the right to forfeit a lease for non-payment of rent even though had re-assigned the benefit of the arrears to the previous landlord on the purchase. A landlord may assign the right to receive the rent without assigning the reversion.
Citations:
Gazette 26-Nov-1997, Times 03-Dec-1997, [1997] EWCA Civ 2639, [1998] 1 EGLR 39
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Clarence House Ltd v National Westminster Bank Plc CA 8-Dec-2009
The defendant tenants, anticipating that the landlord might delay or refuse consent to a subletting entered into a ‘virtual assignment’ of the lease, an assignment in everything but the deed and with no registration. The lease contained a standard . .
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Landlord and Tenant
Updated: 10 November 2022; Ref: scu.143038