Slater v. Pearle Vision Center, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• although lease for space in strip shopping center did not contain express requirement to occupy, obligation to occupy could be implied
• several provisions in the lease suggested that the parties contemplated at the time of executing the commercial lease that Pearle would be obligated to actually occupy and use the premises
• several provisions in the lease suggested that the parties contemplated at the time of executing the commercial lease that Pearle would be obligated to actually occupy and use the premises
• “where it is clear that an obligation is within the contemplation of the parties at the time of contracting or is necessary to carry out their intentions, the court will imply it”
• “[W]here it is clear that an obligation is within the contemplation of the parties at the time of contracting or is necessary to carry out their intentions, the court will imply it.”
• describing what is known as “doctrine of necessary implication”

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