LAW OF TENANCY

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 146, 16 March 1921, Page 7

LAW OF TENANCY

RIGHTS EXISTING AFTER DEATH

The intricacies of the law relative to tenancies, and, more especially, tho differences between the law in force in New Zealand and that in England, were further discussed in the S.M. Court yesterday before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.. during the hearing of an action in which Martin James Kilgour (Mr. O. C. Mazengarb) claimed against the Public b l ' ,,s ' tee as administrator, of tno estate ot William J. Jackson, deceased (Mr. P. B. Brood), for the sum of £3O, rental of a cottage in Island Bav from October 28. 1918, to April 14, 1919. v Counsel for the defence said that Jackeon died during the influenza epidemic of 1918, when only a few weeks rent was owing. No notice of the death was sent to the landlord, and the widow continued in occupation ® f / ha , r Uo “. Be A On March 13, 1919, the Public Trustee was notified of the death, and assumed administration of the estate. He claimed he was only liable for rent up to the date of the tenant's death, and that thereafter tho widow was alone respon--B'Counsel for the plaintiff contended that fn Now Zealand a tenancy at will was not determined by the death of the tenant.; but subsisted until the statutoi. month’s notice in writing was given Tie cited cases in support, one of wl eh ) lated to a tenancy, which w«s hem Le existing 20 years after the' the original tenant, because the noriro required had not been given. Decision was reserved.