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Urgent(ish) - Anyone know where I could read Deasy's Act 1860 online?

  • 02-07-2008 09:09AM
    #1
    dee8839
    Closed Accounts Posts: 283 ✭✭


    Hi, kind of urgent, is there any site online where I could read Deasy's Act? Specifically Section 40? I can't find it anywhere!!

    Would it be on any subscribing law sites (don't want to mention names in case I break the charter or anything)?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated, the sooner the better!

    Thanks, dee8839 :confused::(


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  • #2
    Maximilian
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 5,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Maximilian


    I remember trying to do the same not too long ago but I couldn't find it online anywhere. In the end I got it from a book - I think it was this one

    Short of buying the book, I think a university library is probably your best bet. I'm sure the Law Library would have it if you know a barrister, else you could try calling the Law Society and see if they can help you out, I'm sure their library would also have it.


  • #3
    dee8839
    Closed Accounts Posts: 283 ✭✭dee8839


    Thanks for that, yeah that book is the only thing I'm finding when I search using Google or similar. Its just that I need to know what S 40 is about. I needed a copy of the section (now not possible since don't have time to get that book) and an explanation of its contents.

    Is there somewhere online that you know of that would explain the act (s 40 specifically) in plain english, even if it doesn't actually show the section itself, or is that impossible as if the legislation itself isn't online, a handy explanatory memorandum or similar is hardly gonna be?!


  • #4
    Rhonda9000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭Rhonda9000


    "S.40 of Deasys Act, 1860 permits a tenant to surrender his tenancy on the destruction or rendering uninhabitable of the premises by fire or other inevitable accident. The fire or other accident must not have been due to the default of the tenant and there must be no express covenant by the tenant to repair in the lease. In modern commercial leases this right to surrender is usually expressly excluded by the terms of the lease."


    Source: Law Society - L&T Law book.


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