Thompson v. First National Bank of Hollywood

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• relying on definitions of “[pjerpetual lease” as “renewable forever at the lessee’s option” and “[a] lease of lands which may last without limitation as to time”
• defining a lease in perpetuity as one that is renewable forever at the lessee’s option and as “a grant of lands in fee with the reservation of a rent in fee”; describing a perpetual lease as a conveyance in fee, reserving rent
• in absence of express agreement to impose such liability on lessee, burden to pay special assessment for improvement to lessee's property falls upon lessor
• tenant’s duty to pay “annual taxes” did not require payment of special assessment for sewer improvements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).