Evans v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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1. “With regard to an implied covenant of quiet enjoyment in a lease, the rule now established by the great weight of authority is that the ordinary lease of realty, if valid, and executed by a person capable of making such a covenant, raises an implied covenant that the lessee shall have the quiet and peaceable possession and enjoyment of the leased premises, so far as regards the lessor, or anyone lawfully claiming through or under him, or anyone asserting title to the leased premises superior and paramount to that of the lessor, unless there is some express covenant of a more limited character inconsistent with a judicial covenant of quiet enjoyment ... In leases of real property the law not only implies a covenant on the part of the landlord for quiet possession against paramount title, but against such acts on his part as destroy the beneficial enjoyment of the lease ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Holloway v. Kruger