Peirce v. Hoffstot

How courts have described this case

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• upholding enforcement of rent acceleration clause, noting such clauses “have long been held valid”
• “The tenant, then, does not forfeit [a]ll of his rights when the landlord accelerates, but must thereafter be accorded his possessory rights on payment of the accelerated rent.”
• acceleration clause valid, but tenant must be afforded possessory rights
• “The acceleration clause is ... a guarantee to the lessor that he will receive immediately all of the monies (or other compensation) to which he is entitled under the lease without having to harass a reluctant tenant as periodical payments become due.”
• acceleration clause valid, but tenant must be afforded possessory rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).