Lord Bernard’s Case: 1716

The Lord Chancellor’s court granted an injunction restraining a tenant for life without impeachment of waste who had committed voluntary waste of the mansion-house from committing further waste and obliging him to rebuild the mansion-house and put it into the same condition as it was in at the time of his entry, observing that the clauses of without impeachment of waste extended only to excuse from permissive waste.

Judges:

Earl Cowper LC

Citations:

24 ER 203, (1716) Prec Ch 454

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedDayani v London Borough of Bromley TCC 25-Nov-1999
LA Tenant liable for permissive waste
The local authority was tenant of properties which it sub-licensed to homeless persons for three years was liable for having allowed the properties to deteriorate. It was claimed that they were liable for permissive waste as tenants for a fixed . .
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Landlord and Tenant, Equity

Updated: 25 November 2022; Ref: scu.196873