... was effective until cases developed but the law was confusing at that time to say the least and even the House of Lords found difficulty in grappling with the problems. In order to address the issues it is therefore necessary to consider what a Lease actually is. A lease creates an estate in Land1 which basically is leasehold testate for a term of years certain. It matters not the term so long as there is a term that can be ascertained. Indeed in relation to Rent Act tenancies most often they were weekly tenancies. There are essentially a number of requirement for a lease or tenancies which are that there must be a commencement date that is fixed, there must be a maximum period but consider the weekly tenancy where there was in effect a perpetually renewing period: in fact this is a period tenancy. There must be exclusive possession, and this ...

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