ECC 1714/1999
Type
Case
Court
Egypt Court of Cassation
Jurisdiction
Egypt
Taxonomy
General Landlord & Tenant, Regulatory Compliance, General Succession Law & Estate Planning, Leases & Tenancy Agreements, General Constitutional Law
Copyright
LexisNexis
Decision date
1 Jul 1999
Catchwords
Landlord – Tenant – Tenancy Agreement – Inheritance – Eviction – Constitutional Law
This case involved the eviction of the brother-in-law of an original tenant after the wife of the original tenant who had the tenancy extended after his death to include her died. It was irrelevant that the brother-in-law was living there as a law stating second and third grade relatives of an original tenant should be allowed to stay in a property had been declared unconstitutional.
Background
A landlord filed a case against a tenant before the court of first instance requesting the dismissal of a tenancy agreement and vacation of the disputed flat. The landlord said that the original tenant had died and then the tenancy agreement was extended to his wife. The landlord said that the original tenant's brother in law refused to give up the flat when the wife died.
The tenant filed a case against the landlord before the court of first instance requesting the landlord to release a new tenancy agreement.
The court dismissed the case made by the tenant and ruled that he should vacate the flat and that the tenancy agreement should be dismissed.