Palmer v Goren: 1856

The court considered events where a vendor of leasehold land had failed to maintain the insurance pending completion, and in breach of the lease: ‘It is, in fact, the duty of the vendor so to act that nothing done by him prior to the completion of the contract shall constitute a forfeiture of the lease. The policy of insurance not having in this case been kept up till the completion of the contract, so rendering the property liable to a forfeiture, that was not done by the vendors that which they should have done, and therefore, I think, the purchaser ought to be discharged from his contract.’

Citations:

(1856) 25 LJ Ch 841

Cited by:

CitedEnglewood Properties Limited v Patel and Another ChD 16-Feb-2005
The claimant was a property developer, which sought to sell a row of shops at auction. One lot was a Woolworths store, where the company owned both freehold and leasehold interests, with Woolworths occupying an underlease, which the claimant had . .
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Landlord and Tenant, Contract

Updated: 30 April 2022; Ref: scu.223747