Phoenix Picture Palace Ltd v Capitol and Allied Theatres Ltd

JurisdictionIreland
Judgment Date01 January 1951
Date01 January 1951
CourtHigh Court
Phoenix Picture Palace, Ltd.
and
Capitol and Allied Theatres, Ltd.

Lease for three years at weekly rent - Holding over on payment of same rent - Notice to quit on basis of weekly tenancy - Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment (Ir.) Act, 1860, s. 5 - Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931, s. 38.

Held: that where in a lease for three years in which the rent is expressed to be so much per week, the tenant holds over on the expiration of the term, only a weekly and not a yearly tenancy should be presumed. Dictum of Maugham J. in Ladies' Hosiery and Underwear, Ltd. v. ParkerELR [1930] 1 Ch. 304 applied.

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