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A month by the calendar, not four weeks or a set number of days. Section 61 of the Law of Property Act 1925 gives “month” this meaning in a contract. So the month the bakery has to leave after a price notice is a calendar month. Chapter 7
Explained in Chapter 7, Time in Contracts: Deadlines, Periods and Business Days, of Drafting Skills.
A month needs no definition. Under section 61 of the Law of Property Act 1925, “month” in a contract means a calendar month. That is a month by the calendar, not four weeks or a set number of days. Clause 9.3 gives the bakery one month to leave after a price notice, which is Kestrow’s notice of a price rise. That month is a calendar month.Read Chapter 7, Time in Contracts: Deadlines, Periods and Business Days →
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