Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage
A day
It was held in Clayton’s Case (1585), where a lease dated 26 May was expressed to run for three years “from henceforth”, that the time of day of the delivery of the lease was immaterial, “for the law in this computation doth reject all fractions and divisions of a day for the uncertainty, which is always the mother of confusion and contention”. In re Palmer (1995) the CA held that an insolvency administration order takes place at the moment of the deceased’s death, so his unsevered interest in property vested in his widow and not for the benefit of his creditors.
Board & lodging
“A tenancy is not a protected tenancy if under the tenancy the dwelling-house is bona fide let at a rent which includes payments in respect of board or attendance”: the Rent Act 1977, s7(1). The HoL in Otter v Norman (1989) held that a continental breakfast consisting of two bread rolls, butter, jam or marmalade,
