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- From: chrz@tellabs.com (Peter Chrzanowski)
- Subject: Re: Can a landlord refuse cash?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.235403.9630@tellab5.tellabs.com>
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- Organization: Tellabs, Inc.
- References: <CONKLIN.93Jan4174514@talisman.kaleida.com> <arkusinski_andy-070193080856@arkusinski.si.com.>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:54:03 GMT
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- In article <arkusinski_andy-070193080856@arkusinski.si.com.>, arkusinski_andy@si.com (Andy Arkusinski) writes:
-
- > However, I
- > money, "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE".
-
- I don't know that the writing on money has any force of law
- ("In God We Trust" ?) but even if we assume it does, a debt does not
- exist when the terms include "payable in advance," as is normally
- the case when renting. Some examples:
-
-
- You offer a $1,000. bill at the cash register for that bag of
- Chee-tos in your hand. There's no debt because they're not
- your Chee-tos yet. (BTW if you ate them before paying you
- have committed retail theft, for which you may be prosecuted).
-
- You get on a city bus; the driver informs you that busfare is
- payable in advance, and must be paid with coins or a bus-company token.
- You have only paper money. Must the bus company transport you in
- exchange for the paper money, or may you be evicted from the bus?
-
-
- > Certainly a rent obligation is a private debt for which cash is legal
- > tender.
-
- There is no debt, just an agreement that if you produce the check or
- money order then the landlord will let you use the apartment as your
- residence during the following month.
-
- If you fail to live up to your side of the agreement then the landlord
- does not have to let you live there. Should you fail to leave when
- asked the landlord may have you evicted (unless a lease or local
- ordinance gives you additional rights, of course).
-
-