Chancery Division
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Emmerson v Computer Time International Ltd
Capital gain on assignment of lease–Payment of arrears of rent made by liquidator to obtain landlord’s consent to assignment not made to enhance the value of the asset and not…
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Sampson and another v Caldow and another
Right of pre-emption in conveyance–Right normally assignable–Clause expressed to benefit ‘the purchaser or his personal representatives’ but no reference to successors in title–Whether successors excluded on the ground ‘expressio unius…
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Colin Buckle & Co v Charterhall Properties (Chesham) Ltd
Commission — Sale of site to be developed as a supermarket — Agreement to pay an acquisition fee and commission on subsequent disposal — Surveyor’s claim for damages for breach…
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Swingler v Khosla
Vendor and purchaser — Sale by auction — Failure of purchaser to complete — Alleged misrepresentations in catalogue inducing sale — Purported rescission — Planning permissions — Exclusion clauses –…
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Re Distributors & Warehousing Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Guarantee of payment of rent and performance of tenants’ obligations under terms of lease — Assignment of freehold reversion but no assignment of benefit of covenant…
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Securicor Ltd v PosTel Properties Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Rent-review clause in lease — Construction — Clause provided for the rent to be reviewed at five-yearly intervals, the term being one for 25 years from…
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Prudential Assurance Co Ltd v Salisburys Handbags Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Rent review — Whether hypothetical lease contains provisions for rent review — Term of hypothetical lease
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London & Manchester Assurance Co Ltd v G A Dunn & Co
Landlord and tenant — Problem caused by oddly drafted rent review clause in lease which stated earliest date for setting in motion rent review machinery, but did not specify any…
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Harris v Plentex Ltd
Leasehold Reform Act 1967 — Qualifications for enfranchisement — The plaintiff, who had been a regulated tenant of part of a leasehold house since 1967, acquired the residue of the…
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Coventry City Council v J Hepworth & Son Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Rent review clause in lease of commercial premises — Whether time of the essence of a stipulation setting a date for rent review notice — Review…
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City & Metropolitan Properties Ltd v Greycroft Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Whether tenants who had assigned their lease of a flat could claim after assignment for damage suffered by landlords’ breaches of covenant occurring before assignment –…
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British Bakeries (Midlands) Ltd v Michael Testler & Co Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Covenant against assignment without consent of lease of business premises — Tenants challenge landlord’s refusal of consent as unreasonable — Landlord refused consent on two grounds,…