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Home Page Contact Editorial Team Section Contents Assignment Break clauses Chattels and fixtures Business rates Consents Construction of lease terms Dilapidations Discrimination Disclaimer Distress Estoppel Forfeiture Goods left on the premises Indemnity Insolvency L & T (Covenants) Act 1995 Licences Management regulations Merger Nuisance Notices - service Pre-emption clause Rent Rent review Rent suspension Restraint of trade Service charges and insurance (general) Set-off Subletting, sharing possession or occupation Surrender by operation of law Surrender and re-grant Tenancy at will Uncertain term Unlawful eviction Print Version Current page	Surrender by operation of law This page contains the reports of two cases. The first deals with the situation where the tenant abandons the premises and the landlord simply does nothing. Is the tenant then entitled to claim that the landlord has surrendered? The short answer is no, even if the rent is not paid. The second case is concerned with a situation where a landlord's acts did amount to a surrender - even though he said he wasn't surrendering. It is a very useful case as it contains a very clear restatement of the principles that apply when one is saying that there has been a surrender by operation of law. (See also the article on Surrender and re-grant). Abandonment by tenant Inaction by tenant Summary The CA approved the following statement of the law at page 849 of the 6th edition of Megarry and Wade: The Law of Real Property: "Abandonment of the premises by the tenant without more (even if rent is unpaid) is not a surrender, because the landlord may wish the tenant's liability to continue. Nor is the delivery of the key of the premises to the landlord enough by itself. Even if he accepts it, it must be shown that he did so with the intention of determining the tenancy ... and not merely because he had no alternative." Facts The property had been let to T in August 2000. T never paid any rent and left in November 2000. L knew this and made no claim for rent at the next quarter day. The property was then left empty for many months because the landlord was too busy to deal with it. The judge held that this operated as a surrender of the tenancy on or about that date, so that rent was not payable thereafter. L appealed: Held There was no surrender. Peter Gibson LJ: "30. The doctrine of surrender by operation of law is founded on the principle of estoppel, in that the parties must have acted towards each other in a way which is inconsistent with the continuation of the tenancy. That imposes a high threshold which must be crossed if the tenant is to be held to have surrendered and the landlord is to be held to have accepted the surrender. 31. The effective re-delivery of possession by the tenant and its acceptance by the landlord are vital. Thus there will be a surrender when the tenant returns the keys of the premises and the landlord accepts ... THIS IS AN EXTRACT OF THE FULL TEXT. TO GET THE FULL TEXT, SEE BELOW Existing members, to login click => here If you have found this page useful, you may be interested in the following: Options Free Summaries £nil Full Membership From £207 + VAT (1 year)   www.propertylawuk.net PropertyLawUK.net Ltd | Co. : 8439359 | Reg Office : 3 Shelbourne Close, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 3AF