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LANDLORD AND TENANT LAW AMENDMENT ACT (IRELAND) 1860 - SECT 40

On destruction of subject of the lease, tenant may surrender the lease.

40. If any dwelling house or other building constituting the substantial
matter of the demise, and holden by any tenant under any lease or other
contract of tenancy not containing an express covenant or agreement binding on
the tenant to repair the same, shall be destroyed, become ruinous and
uninhabitable, or incapable of beneficial occupation or enjoyment, by
accidental fire or other inevitable accident, and without the default or
neglect of the said tenant, it shall be lawful for such tenant to surrender
the said premises; and on tendering the said surrender and on payment of all
rent and arrears due or accruing due, or tendering the same, the said tenant
shall be thenceforth discharged from all obligation to pay the rent or perform
the covenants and conditions in the lease thenceforward.

Agreements implied on behalf of landlord.



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