Mullin v. N Street Follies Ltd. Partnership, 712 A.2d 487 (1998)

Citation: Mullin v. N Street Follies Ltd. Partnership, 712 A.2d 487 (1998)
Parent Document: Mullin v. N Street Follies Ltd. Partnership, 712 A.2d 487 (1998)
Jurisdiction: DC (municipal)
Effective Date: 1998-07-07
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1929448/mullin-v-n-street-follies-ltd-p... ↗

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awkwardness of construing the statutory thirty day cure period in the context of the rental obligation to pay rent on time, as opposed to many other rental obligations which are not time dependent.... [Although the obligation to pay rent on time is in a sense a continuous one, that obligation only arises periodically, that is, on whatever day of the month the lease designates rent is due. Thus, for the tenant to have the benefit of the full statutory period, we hold that the cure period for an obligation to pay rent on time will expire, not thirty days after the notice is received, but rather on the first day of the rental period immediately following the lapse of the thirty day notice period which commences on receipt of the notice. Pritch, supra, 543 A.2d at 811-12. Applying this reasoning to the facts of Pritch,

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