Cases - Ebbetts v Conquest

Record details

Name

Ebbetts v Conquest

Date

[1895]

Citation

2 Ch 377

Keywords

Commercial property - property management - dilapidations - damages - breach of covenant - repairs

Summary

The general rule is that the measure of damages for a breach of covenant to keep in repair is the loss which is occasioned to the lessor’s reversion. This will be greater or less according to the term of the lease left to run at the time the breach occurred.