Certainty of Terms and Leases: Curiouser and Curiouser

• المؤلف الرئيسي: LOW, Kelvin Fatt Kin
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• الموضوعات: Leases; Licences; Contract; Numerus Clausus; Positive Covenants; Contracts
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1385
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

The common law rule that requires leases to have a fixed terminus from the outset is one that has been much criticised. In Berrisford v Mexfield Housing Co-operative Ltd, the Supreme Court managed to blunt its effect by suggesting that most leases of uncertain duration can be transformed into 90-yea...