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Law of Property Act 2000
212Rents etc. apportionable in respect of time
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212 Rents etc. apportionable in respect of time
(1) All rents, annuities, dividends, and other periodical payments in the
nature of income, whether reserved or made payable under an
instrument in writing or otherwise, are to be taken to be accruing
from day to day like interest on money lent and to be apportionable
in respect of time accordingly.
(2) The apportioned part of rent, an annuity, or other payment referred
to in subsection (1) is payable or recoverable:
(a) in the case of a continuing rent, annuity, or any other
payment – when the entire portion of which the apportioned
part forms part becomes due and payable; or
(b) in the case of rent or an annuity or other payment determined
by re-entry, death or otherwise – when the next entire portion
of which the apportioned part forms part would have been
payable if the rent, annuity or payment had not determined,
and not before.
(3) A person and his or her executor, administrator and assigns, and
also the executor, administrator and assigns of a person whose
interests determined with his or her death, has or have the same
remedies at law and in equity for recovering the apportioned parts
when payable (taking into account the proportionate parts of all just
allowances and deductions) as they would respectively have had
for recovering the entire portions if entitled to them.
(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3), if a person is liable to pay rent
reserved out of or charged on land, the person and the land are not
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to be resorted to for an apportioned part forming part of an entire or
continuing rent, but the entire or continuing rent (including the
apportioned part) is to be recovered and received by the person
who, if the rent had not been apportionable under this section or
otherwise, would have been entitled to the entire or continuing rent,
and the apportioned part is recoverable from that person by
proceedings by an executor, administrator or other party entitled to
it under this section.