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Tenants and Hostilities To the Editor of the "NorrH-Cutya Dany News"
Sin,—It "is to be hoped that all n subjects will take warning from the recent case in which a tenant was held liable for the rent of a house in the Hungjao area which he could not occupy, and this in spite of a clear and unrestricted clause in his lease by which the landlord covenanted that his tenant should "peaceably hold and enjoy" the premises.
The harshness of the law and of the rulings which have been handed down in England in the past, so qualify this clause that, to all intents and purposes, it means only a guarantee of freedom from disturbance by the landlord himself, can readily be traced to the days when the landowners were the legislators, tind although it was based to some extent on the reasoning that the law itself will protect the tenant from the wrongful acts of others—a principle which be understood in a lawful country—this reason hi little foundation in considering the rights and privileges afforded to a Rritish subject in alien territory So far as disturbance by hostilities is concerned the position is perhaps comparable with England, but the local tenant has also to protect himself against the numerous possibilities which can never occur in England, of interference or disturbance by the disagreement of authorities as to taxation or title. as to the supply of public utility policing and other amenities and as to many other factors which govern that "peaceable enjoyment" which is taken as a matter of course in England and as a matter of some speculation on the "Outside Roads".
S The demising of premises in England has a far deeper meaning than can be expected in the ordinary "letting" of a house here and while the forms of lease in common use in Shanghai are drawn from what is, no doubt, a satisfactory and well-understood phraseology at home, with its implications of modern civilized conditions, it is clear that the tenant here needs far wider protection from Jan Kow, P, U. Nicolitz V. Volkov, Franz Wagner, P. Soboleff, A Gorbachenko, F. A. Zelensky, 1. Rogorov. Th. Papa-harsh, Rudolf Marecek, Josef Futero, Jaroslav Horny. A. Bogoslovsky, H. Podstavsky, C. Meloni, M. Selivanowsky. J, Kodzernikov A. Ignatieff, M. Goosteff, J Rogovy, C. Sunni, C. Rodberg.
Shanghai, May 27.
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