Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    us say, roofless house, however stringent the covenants may be which bind his landlord to re- roof it He must put on his mackintosh and bring an action, in his turn, for breach of covenant. Where there is wisdom on both sides, covenants will be introduced providing for these several cases, and also freeing the tenant from the necessity of paying rent during such time as his house may be uninhabitable by reason of having been burned down. A further covenant may be introduced authori- sing the tenant, in landlord’s default, to do needful repairs himself and deduct them from the rent. But let a tenant beware how he follow this line of procedure without such covenant. Because, though he will probably find no serious objection raised to his doing of the repairs, the deduction from the rent will probably be regarded from a different point of view. And he has no right whatever to make any such deduction. It is a delusion to imagine that the repairing covenants of a lease become obsolete at its ex- piration if the occupancy be still continued. In such cases the liability to repair continues on the same lines as before. It will, however, in most instances, be construed by the courts with some- what less strictness. There are certain subtle distinctions between damages done by “ wind,” and by a “ great wind,” or a “tempest,” which to the real amateur of litigation may often afford excellent sport. But