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City PBS v Miller [1952] Ch 840

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United Kingdom
By Oxbridge Law Team
Evershed MR
Jenkins LJ

  • Defendant 1 contracted to give Defendant 2 a lease for 3 years and on a week-by week basis thereafter. The lease wasn’t registered.

  • Defendant 1 gave a mortgage on the property to Plaintiff, who claimed possession against Defendant 1 and Defendant 2 after Defendant 1 defaulted on payments.

  • CA held that Plaintiff could take possession.

  • Under LRA 1925, for a lease to be an overriding interest, it had to be “a lease ... for any term or interest not exceeding twenty-one years, granted at a rent”. “Granted” means the actual creation of a lease by an agreement for a set number of years / using a deed, etc., and does NOT include mere agreements with simply a contractual effect.

  • Therefore Defendant 2 had not shown that she had an interest that took priority.

Evershed MR

  • Defendant 2 never got a lease but a mere contractual right to obtain a lease from Defendant 1. 

Jenkins LJ

  • Agreements to lease are not overriding interests in the way that actual leases are.

  • Here, a lease could have been created by deed and therefore this agreement could not have been a lease. 

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