Excerpt from Prideaux's Precedents in Conveyancing, Vol. 2: With Dissertations on Its Law and Practice And taxes, 10. General covenant to pay rates and taxes, without exception, includes sewers' rate and land tax, but not the landlord's property tax, 11. Nor tithe rent-charge, 11. Nor to charges thrown by Act of Parliament on the owner, but secus, if the covenant extends in terms to all assessments and charges imposed on the landlord in respect of. The premises, 11. The preservation, repair, and insurance of the demised property, 11. Tenant liable for actual waste, if there is any injury to the inheritance, 12. Action may be brought by reversioner, 12. Liability of tenant for life or for years or at will, or from year to year, as to repairs, 12. Construction of covenants to repair, 13. Measure of damages on breach of covenant to repair, 13. No warranty by landlord as to condition of unfurnished house, 13. Secus, when house is let fm'nished, 14. Liability of tenant in case of fire, 14. In absence of stipulation, lessee not bound to rebuild in case of fire, but he must do so under general covenant to repair, 14. In absence of stipulation lessee liable to rent although house has been burnt down, 14. Proper form of covenant by lessee for insurance, 15. Construction of covenant, 15. Covenants to insure in underlease, 15. Where lessee does not insure damage by fire should be excepted from general covenant to repair, 15. Covenants in farm leases, 15. IV. Covenants restrictive of the use of the demised property, and covenants against assign ment or underletting without the lessor's consent. Covenant not to carry on trades, 16. Covenant not to assign or underlet without lessor's consent, 16. Construction of such a covenant, 16. Underlease not a breach of covenant against assignment, 17. Assignment by one joint tenant to the other, 17. Covenant not to assign, &c., cannot be insisted on, under an open contract, 17. Runs with the land, 17. Measure of damages on breach of covenant, 17. V. The condition of re-entry, and the relief aforded by equity against a forfeiture thereunder. Proviso for re-entry, 18. Cannot be insisted on under open contract, 18. Demand of rent necessary at common law, 18. Forfeiture waived by acceptance of rent with notice, 19. Equity will relieve against forfeiture for non payment of rent, 19. Formerly Court had no jurisdiction to relieve against forfeiture for breaches of covenant, 19. Jurisdiction conferred by recent Act, 19. Restrictions on and relief against forfeiture of leases, 19. Lessor may apply to Court for relief, 20. Definition of term lease, 20. Exceptions, 20. No relief under Act in case of an agreement for a lease, 21. VI. The eject of alienation by the lessor or lessee as regards the rent and the covenants and conditions of the lease. Rent follows reversion, and is apportionable on a partial alienation, 21 Benefit and liability under covenants and conditions made to pass with reversion by statute, 21. On alienation of reversion of part of demised land, condition of re entry for non-payment of rent is available for apportioned part, 22. But until recent Act condition was gone as regards breach of covenants except where lessee himself was alienee, 22. Rent and benefit of lessee's covenants and condition of re-entry to run with reversion, 22. Obligation of lessor's covenants to run with reversion, 22. Apportionment of conditions on severance, &c., 23. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com