1400 LANDLORD AND TENANT. [ART. 53

1904, ch. 286, sec, 25. 1884, ch. 502.

25. Whenever the lessee named in a lease or the assignee
of a lease shall or may apply to his landlord for a renewal of
the lease under convenant contained in it giving him the right,
to demand and have such renewal, the landlord shall, in case
the tenant cannot produce vouchers or satisfactory evidence
showing the payment of the rent accrued for three years next,
preceding his demand and application, be entitled to demand
and recover three years' back rent and no more (in addition to
any renewal fine that may be provided for in .the lease), before
executing or causing to be executed such renewed lease, and
the tenant may plead this section in bar of the recovery of any
larger or greater amount of rent.

Ibid. sec. 26. 1884, ch. 502.

26. Whenever there has been no demand or payment for
more than twenty consecutive years of any specific rent reserved
out of a particular lot or any part of a particular lot under any
form of lease, such rent shall be conclusively presumed to have
been extinguished and the landlord shall not thereafter set up
any claim thereto or to the reversion in the lot out of which it
issued, or have the right to institute any suit, action or proceed-
ing whatsoever to recover said rent or said lot; but in case such
landlord shall be under any legal disability when such period
of twenty years of non-demand or non-payment shall expire,
he shall have two years after the removal of such disability
within which to assert his rights; provided, however, that cover-
ture shall not be considered a disability within the provisions
of this and the next preceding section and that no retroactive
effect shall be given to said sections, and the period of limita-
tions herein prescribed shall begin to run only from April 8,
1884.

Ibid, sec 26 A

27. In all leases made after the first day of June, 1904,
whenever the improvements on property rented for a term of
not more than seven years shall become untenantable by reason
of fire or other unavoidable accident, the tenancy shall be there-
by terminated, and all liability for rent thereunder shall cease
upon payment proportionately to the day of fire or unavoidable
accident.

1898, ch. 92, sec. 27.

28. The right of a tenant to remove fixtures erected by him
under one demise or term shall not be lost or in any manner