Principle

LAND LAW — Landlord and Tenant — Landlord’s Remedy for Tenant’s Breach of Covenant to Repair is Damages, Not Refusal of Surrender

Area of law
LAND LAW
Court
Supreme Court

Landlord's remedies for breach of repairing covenant are damages, forfeiture, or cost recovery, not specific performance. The landlord should accept surrender and claim damages. The principle applies to landlord-tenant law. The rule prevents landlords from refusing surrender to inflate damages. Specific performance of repair covenants…

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