A tenant shall not be bound to pay rent for buildings after their destruction by fire or otherwise, nor shall a covenant or promise by a lessee to leave or restore the premises in good repair have the effect to bind him to erect or pay for such buildings as may be so destroyed, unless in respect to the matters aforesaid there was negligence or fault on his part, or unless he has expressly stipulated to be so bound.
Miss. Code Ann. § 89-7-3
Tenant not bound to pay rent for, or to restore, buildings destroyed; exception
Codes, 1880, §§ 1239, 1240; 1892, §§ 2497, 2498; 1906, §§ 2834, 2835; Hemingway’s 1917, §§ 2332, 2333; 1930, § 2176; 1942, § 898.
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