ABSTRACT
This provision was included in the Law of Property Act 1925 because subtenants are not allowed to see details of their own landlord’s title, and it would therefore be unfair on them if the sins of their landlord were visited upon them without any possibility of relief being granted to them. The subsection therefore enables the subtenant to obtain relief at the court’s discretion in a suitable case, whatever the reasons for the forfeiture of their own landlord’s head tenancy.
