Cases - HL Bolton Engineering Co Ltd v TJ Graham and Sons

Record details

Name

HL Bolton Engineering Co Ltd v TJ Graham and Sons

Date

[1957]

Citation

1 QB 159

Legislation

Landlord and Tenant Act 1954

Keywords

Lease renewal - ground (g) - own occupation - five-year bar

Summary

The object of the rule is that persons should not be able to purchase the reversions on business tenancies just before they end and then obtain possession for their own purposes. Landlords who have acquired the reversion over the head of the sitting tenant, either by purchase or by the grant of a concurrent leasehold interest, within the 5-year period are ruled out.

It was also held that the word 'purchased' is used in its popular sense of 'buying for money'.