Section 10
- Citation
- Section 10
- Parent Document
- Jack Spicer Real Estate, Inc. v. Gassaway, 353 A.2d 288 (1976)
- Jurisdiction
- DC (municipal)
- Effective Date
- 1976-03-09
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- Jack Spicer Real Estate, Inc. v. Gassaway, 353 A.2d 288 (1976)
- Jack Spicer Real Estate, Inc. v. Gassaway, 353 A.2d 288 (1976)
- Jack Spicer Real Estate, Inc. v. Gassaway, 353 A.2d 288 (1976)
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Full Text
572 charsAppellant asserts that by eliminating the right of a landlord to evict a tenant by sufferance without stating any reason therefor in the notice to quit, the Council has created a new tenancy which has the effect of depriving the landlord of his property without due process of law. It argues in addition that Section 10 impairs the obligation of contracts in violation of U.S.Const, art. I, § 10, since it nullifies a common provision in lease agreements whereby the tenant waives the right of a thirty-day notice to quit. As this court noted years ago in Walsh v. Cooper,