OF LANDLORD AND TENANT INCLUDING THE PRACTICE IN EJECTMENT. BY JOSEPH HAWORTH REDMAN AND GEORGE EDWARD LYON, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQUIRES, BARRISTERS-AT-LAW. Fourth Edition BY JOSEPH HAWORTH REDMAN. LONDON: REEVES & TURNER, 100, CHANCERY LANE, AND CAREY STREET, PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. For all the shortcomings of the present and last Editions I alone am responsible. To the last Edition my friend Mr. Lyon contributed the carefully-revised Index, which was a portion of his original valuable contribution to the Work, and he also read and corrected the proof sheets as the Edition was passing through the press. Much to my regret and loss, however, he has desired to be relieved from the further burdens of authorship. Under these circumstances, I wish to express my warmest acknowledgment of gratitude to my friend, Mr. George Humphreys, of the South Eastern Circuit, for valuable assistance rendered to me in connection with this Edition. In addition to revising and, so far as was rendered necessary by new Acts and Rules, re-writing Chapter XI., I am indebted to him for undertaking the laborious task of preparing the Index, for reading the proof sheets of the work, and for other friendly aid, without which the appearance of this Edition would have been longer delayed. I very much regret the increased bulk of the Work. I can only plead in extenuation that every added paragraph embodies either a statute, a new decision, or a point that iv PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. has arisen in daily practice, as to which the former Edition was either silent, or appeared to deal too meagrely. While every Chapter has received substantial additions, Chapter V., which deals with, perhaps, the most important branch of the subject, and Chapter IV., section 2, dealing with "agreements for leases," have been almost entirely re-written. In its present shape, I believe the Work embodies, with sufficient fulness for daily use, all the statute and case law upon the subject, of practical utility, down to the date of publication. The only important case not noticed in its proper place in the text is Dougal v. McCarthy, [1893] 1 Q. B. 736, which was not reported until page 6, the portion of the text affected by it, had passed through the printer's hands. Upwards of a thousand additional cases have been incorporated in the text. For the tabulation of the cases and statutes I am indebted to the well-known accuracy of Mr. Robert Riches, of the Inns of Court Bar Library, Royal Courts of Justice. 2, NEW COURT, LINCOLN'S INN. July, 1893. J. H. REDMAN. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. QUESTIONS as to the law governing the relationship of landlord and tenant are matters which every lawyer in practice is required to advise upon almost daily. As he is often bound to form and act upon an opinion at once, it is of the greatest importance that he should have at hand the means of informing himself quickly what the law, as modified by statutes or decisions, then is. The Authors, therefore, venture to hope that, in consequence of the recent alterations effected by statutes and by the decisions of the courts in this branch of the law, a new work upon the subject may be acceptable to the public. They have endeavoured, while avoiding as much as possible merely historical statements of law, to deal concisely with every portion of the subject which is of practical importance and fairly within the scope of a work of this description. Their aim has been to produce a work not too elaborate or bulky to be easily referred to, and not too meagre to be useful when referred to. How far they have succeeded the profession and the public must decide. 5, ESSEX COURT, TEMPLE, E.C., June, 1876. |