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LIMITATION ACT 2005 - SECT 71

71 .         Rent wrongly paid

                If —

            (a)         a tenant is in possession of land under a lease for a term reserving a rent amounting to a yearly sum of not less than $2.00;

            (b)         the rent is received by a person wrongfully claiming to be entitled to the land subject to the lease; and

            (c)         no rent is afterwards received by the landlord and in consequence the lease can be determined,

                the cause of action of the landlord to recover the land from a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) or from a person claiming under such a person accrues at the earliest time when the lease can be determined.



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