 Where any building, which is leased or occupied, is destroyed or so injured by the elements, or any other cause as to be untenantable, and unfit for occupancy, and no express agreement to the contrary has been made in writing, the lessee or occupant may,...  The New York Supplement - Page 1711898Full view - About this book
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 750 pages
...actually taken, under the statute. The lease expressly provides that in case the buildings on the premises be destroyed or be so injured by the elements or any...cause as to be untenantable and unfit for occupancy, the tenant shall not be liable for rent, but may quit and surrender the premises. Not being obliged... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 662 pages
...changed in New York by chapter 345 of the laws of 1860, which provided that "the lessees or occupants of any building which shall, without any fault or neglect on their part, be destroyed, or so injured by the elements, or any other cause, as to be untenantable and unfit for occupancy, shall... | |
 | New York (State) - Legislation - 1860 - 1204 pages
...YorJc, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. The lessees or occupants of any building which shall, without any fault or neglect...to pay rent to the lessors or owners thereof, after such destruction or injury, unless otherwise expressly provided by written agreement or covenant, and... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Erasmus Peshine Smith, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 664 pages
...that in 1860 the legislature interfered, and, by rtatute, provided, "That the lessees or occupants of any building which shall, without any fault or neglect...any other cause, as to be untenantable and unfit for occupation, shall not be liable or bound to pay rent to the lessors or owners thereof, after such destruction... | |
 | John Willard - Conveyancing - 1861 - 718 pages
...some of the cases which may arise. By that statute it is enacted, that the lessees or occupants of any building which shall, without any fault or neglect...to pay rent to the lessors or owners thereof, after such destruction or injury, unless otherwise expressly provided by written agreement or covenant. And... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1863 - 826 pages
...building which shall, Tenants without any fault or neglect on their part, be destroyed, or Łaydrenn0ttin be so injured by the elements, or any other cause,...to pay rent to the lessors or owners thereof, after such destruction or injury, unless otherwise expressly provided by written agreement or covenant, and... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.), New York (State). Supreme Court - Civil procedure - 1863 - 626 pages
...592,) which declares that the occupant of any building which shall without any fault or neglect on bis part be destroyed, or be so injured by the elements...any other cause, as to be untenantable and unfit for occuFash agt. Kuranagh. pancy, shall not be liable or bound to pay rent after such destruction or injury,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1866 - 726 pages
...rule of the civil law to be just and equitable. ('') Amb. 619. vided, that the lessees or occupants of any building which shall, without any fault or neglect...to pay rent to the lessors or owners thereof, after such destruction or injury, unless otherwise expressly provided by written agreement or covenant ;... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott - Conveyancing - 1866 - 760 pages
...building on said premie- •--- without any fault or neglect on his part, be destroyed, or be so injcn: ; the elements, or any other cause, as to be untenantable and unfit.'"" -[ pancy, the tenant shall not be liable or bound to pay rent to the fe*» or owners thereof, for the... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1869 - 840 pages
...Assembly, do enact as follows: S 1. The lessees or occupants of auy building which shall, Ten«nt« without any fault or neglect on their part, be destroyed,...to pay rent to the lessors or owners thereof, after such destruction or injury, unless otherwise expressly provided by written agreement or covenant, and... | |
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