contract of tenancy

One curious clause in the contract of tenancy stipulated that children born to parents living in Dagenham could not be housed on the estate themselves when the time came for them to establish their own homes.

The tenant may exercise his right to remove tenant's fixtures so long as he is in possession as a tenant, whether under the original contract of tenancy or a new tenancy or by holding over (New Zealand Government Property Corp v H M & S Ltd).

In the centuries since 1449 the law south of the border has certainly gone beyond Scots law in the statutory regulation of leases; but Scotland must surely have been the first to confer rights beyond those conferred by the contract of tenancy itself, which prior to 1449 would have been binding only on the parties to it.