Landlord and tenant law : past, present and future / / edited by Susan Bright

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784166303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Hart Publishing, , 2006
• ISBN: 1-4742-0054-0; 1-280-81416-0; 9786610814169; 1-84731-278-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Disciplina: 346.410434
• Soggetti: Landlord and tenant - Great Britain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Landlord and tenant law : mapping the recent past -- Street volume Mountford revisited -- Judicial directions in landlord and tenant law : different policies for different sectors -- Commercial leases past and present : the contribution of the law commission -- Commercial leases : future directions -- Agricultural tenancies : past and present -- Agricultural tenancies : future directions -- Long residential leases : past and present -- Long residential leases : future directions -- Housing law : past and present -- Housing law : the future -- Recent developments in Australian residential tenancies laws -- Impoverished tenants in 20th century America.
• Sommario/riassunto: This unique collection of essays, written by leading practitioners, policy makers and academics, looks at patterns of landlord and tenant law: past, present and future. Each sector is explored - commercial, long residential, housing, and agricultural - by taking a look backwards and forwards. The chapters explore the role that legislative, judicial, and policy developments, and market forces have played, and will continue to play, in shaping the law. Two chapters are devoted to the seminal case of Street v Mountford and its contemporary significance. A comparison is also made with the position