§ 34-18.1-13 - Apportionment of rent on termination of lease. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 34-18.1-13

   § 34-18.1-13  Apportionment of rent ontermination of lease. – When lands covered by this chapter are held by lease of a person who has anestate therein determinable on a life or on a contingency, and such estatedetermines before the end of a period for which rent is payable, or when anestate, created by a written lease or by operation of the provisions of thischapter, is determined before the end of such a period by surrender, eitherexpressed or by operation of law, by notice to quit, or for nonpayment of rent,or by the death of any party, the landlord, or his or her executors andadministrators, may recover a proportional part of such rent according to thetime expired, at such determination, of the last period for which such rent wasgrowing due.