Commercial Leases · glossary

Lease

The document by which a landlord lets premises to a tenant for a fixed term in return for rent. Linnet's lease is for ten years. It opens with the prescribed clauses and the Particulars, has fifteen clauses and five schedules, and is signed as a deed in two parts. The Lease · Chapter 1 · see Term, Lease of part

Explained in Chapter 1, What a Lease Is, of Commercial Leases.

How it comes up, in Chapter 1
When a landlord lets one floor and keeps the rest of the building, it grants a lease of part. The lease must draw a clear line between what the tenant takes and what the landlord keeps. That line decides who repairs what, and who pays.
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