Tag: Tenant

Commercial Tenancies – Assignments and Subleasing

In commercial tenancies, a tenant may sometimes have space that they can no longer afford or need. Faced with paying for the excess space, a tenant may either request that the landlord terminate the lease (either in whole or only...

By Merovitz Potechin on Monday October 27, 2014.

Landlord’s Right of Distress

While a landlord can exercise their right to seize the goods of a tenant, this right is not unlimited. Ontario courts have previously held that a landlord must choose between the mutually exclusive remedies of forfeiture or distress. This was...

By Merovitz Potechin on Monday July 14, 2014.