breach of covenant
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbreachandcovenant
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breach
noun[C]
uk/briːtʃ/us/briːtʃ/
an act of breaking a law, promise, agreement, ...
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covenant
noun[C]
uk/ˈkʌv.ən.ənt/us/ˈkʌv.ən.ənt/
a formal agreement or promise between two or ...
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(Definition ofbreachandcovenantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The assignee should not, however, take on any rights or liabilities in respect of anybreachofcovenantoccurring prior to the assignment.
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Forbreachofcovenant, non-payment of rent, or a variety of other things, he can get repossession of his property.
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Secondly, the clause says that if there is anybreachofcovenantthere shall be no relief against that at all.
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Take the case of a notice to quit served on account of abreachofcovenantby a tenant.
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I doubt whether the landlord's agent discovered that we were inbreachofcovenantand no proceedings were taken against us.
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Under the old agriculture holdings arrangements, where a tenant had an irredeemablebreachofcovenant, there was an incontestable notice to quit.
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The exception is that the lessee will be protected against forfeiture forbreachofcovenantexcept for non-payment of rent or for failure to insure.
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In these circumstances the husband, if he went to the court for relief against abreachofcovenant, would probably get relief granted to him.
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Insurance against claims forbreachofcovenant, where restrictive covenants have been broken in the past, requires only a paltry premium.
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It constantly happens that, when some illegality is threatened, some act inbreachofcovenant, or some act which will constitute a nuisance, application is made for an injunction.
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On the other hand, one has also to consider the kind of case in which, for example, the tenant is suing the landlord forbreachofcovenantof quiet enjoyment.
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What it does is to say that during the two years period although landlords are not given the right of forfeiture at all forbreachofcovenantto maintain.
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Under private landlords, if smallholders receive notice to quit for any reason except bad farming or abreachofcovenant, they are entitled to compensation for disturbance.
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But subject to their having a remedy under the general law such as forbreachofcovenantor nuisance, those neighbours have no claims against the owner.
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Consequently, the landlord is likely to have more control over, and connection with, the defaulting tenant than the former tenant, who is expected to pay compensation forbreachofcovenant.
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After all, although the landlord cannot re-enter forbreachofcovenant, he can, when the two years have expired sue for damages forbreachofcovenant.
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Landlords would be prohibited from commencing forfeiture proceedings for any contestedbreachofcovenantunless a leasehold valuation tribunal or court had determined that a breach had actually occurred.
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He did it without their permission, inbreachofcovenant.
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That may open the door to breaches of covenant which were not in the tenant's strict obligation—which were there only by vague and general implication.
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