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Boston Housing Authority v. Hemingway, 293 N.E.2d 831 (1973)

Citation
Boston Housing Authority v. Hemingway, 293 N.E.2d 831 (1973)
Parent Document
Boston Housing Authority v. Hemingway, 293 N.E.2d 831 (1973)
Jurisdiction
Massachusetts (state)
Effective Date
1973-03-05

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The independent covenants rule was the most important logical incident flowing from the common law's conception of the lease as a conveyance of an interest in real estate. Although c. 239, § 8A, did not abrogate *196 the independent covenants rule, it drastically altered most of the logical incidents flowing from the lease's old status as property conveyance by allowing rent withholding, a remedy which reflects the Legislature's judgment that the tenant should be paying rent only for habitable premises. This legislative alteration of the most important incident of the common law status of a lease as a property conveyance requires a judicial reappraisal[10] of the common law status itself because the Legislature's actions reflect a characterization of the landlord-tenant relationship that radically differs from the status accorded to it by the common law.