Sentence examples for constructive eviction from inspiring English sources
noun
Breach of a landlord/tenant relationship that occurs when the landlord does not order the tenant to leave the property, but allows the property occupied by the tenant to fall into such poor condition that it can no longer be lived in.
"You can have a partial constructive eviction," she said.
Still, Mr. Treiman also points out that constructive eviction does not relieve the tenant of liability for paying the rent if the tenant decides to "tough it out" and remains in the apartment and lives with the hardship.
"There are no hard-and-fast rules for what does and does not constitute constructive eviction," he said, but lack of heat, water and elevator service to the 25th floor would certainly qualify.
If that didn't work, and the writer had to vacate the apartment because of continuing smoke exposure, that could be considered a "constructive eviction," which would relieve the tenant of any further obligation to pay rent.
There are, of course, occasions when the damage to a building is so severe that tenants cannot, at least for some time, return -- a situation legally called a constructive eviction.
A Dov Treiman, a Manhattan real estate lawyer, said that when a building becomes essentially impossible to live in, for whatever reason, the legal doctrine of "constructive eviction" allows the tenant to vacate the apartment without responsibility for future rent, even if there is a lease.
We could be looking at images of destruction, but we could also see these designs as an effort to develop a constructive vocabulary for building for the eviction society.
Destructive: constructive.
Eviction appears imminent.
They faced imminent eviction.
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