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Conditions for establishing the existence of a valid agreement for a lease

Conditions for the validity of a lease

Effect of a landlord's acceptance of rent from a lessee whose term of lease has expired

Effect of a lease of more than ninety-nine years duration

Effect of a lease of more than three years which fails to comply with the requirements of writing, commencement and duration

Effect of a sub-lessor granting a sub-lessee an interest which is as great as his own in a lease

Effect of an oral contract for a lease above three years

Effect of an oral lease

Effect of breach of covenant not to assign or sub-let without consent of landlord

Effect of forfeiture of the lease on the underlease

Effect of the assignment of rights by a lessor/sublessor

Effect of the demolition of a building which is the subject matter of a lease

Implied covenants in a lease under NRCD 175

Importance of possession in a lease

Meaning of a lease

Principles governing sale of land during the pendency of a lease

Prohibition against parting with possession

Requirements for a valid agreement for a lease

Rights of a lessee

The main ingredient of a valid lease

The position of the law on the right of a subject to grant a lease of land

The principle that where a lease is determinable “on or after” a specified date, the stipulated period of notice is calculated after the expiration of the period certain

The principle that a tenant is estopped from disputing the title of the landlord

The rule that a lease must have certainty in its duration

The rule that a lease usually vests the right of exclusive possession in the lessee

Ways in which a lease can be determined

What constitutes perpetual leases under customary law

When the commencement of a lease made subject to the happening of an event would be valid

Whether a landlord reserves the right to alienate his land during the pendency of a lease

Whether a lease can be created orally

Whether a lease can take effect in the future

Whether a lease intended to last for 99 years is valid

Whether a lessee of land is not affected by a judgment adverse to his lessor's in proceedings commenced subsequent to the grant of the lease

Whether an agreement for a lease is binding on the parties

Whether an agreement for a lease is specifically enforceable

Whether an underlease of a whole term amounts to a sublease or an assignment

Whether leases are perpetual interests

Whether parties to a lease are deemed to include their successors

Whether parties who claim their titles from a leasehold agreement are bound by the description of the parties in the premises of the lease

Whether the commencement of a lease can be made dependent upon the occurrence of an uncertain event

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