ABSTRACT
Repairing covenants, other than covenants as to fitness for habitation, are normally expressly inserted in leases. At common law, there is no implied obligation on a landlord to do repairs, but statutory obligations are imposed in some jurisdictions. For instance, s 157(c) of Cap 236 (Barbados) implies a covenant ‘to keep in repair the roof, main walls and main drains and, where part only of a building is leased, the common passage and common installations’, and s 157(e) imposes an obligation ‘to repair the leased premises in the case of destruction by fire , earthquake, hurricane, flood or riot’.
