Booraem v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “* * * In construing the words `total destruction,' when used in leases to terminate the payment of rent, the courts have held that a partial destruction of the building, though it renders the premises, or a part thereof, untenantable for the purposes of the lease, does not terminate the lease, and relieve the tenant from liability for future rents. Id. 310; Wall v. Hinds, 4 Gray ( Mass. ) 256.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 30 N.J. Super. 605 - Pivnick v. Seaboard Supply Co.