Publications
Residential Tenancies Act, Issues Paper 7
This report is the second in a series summarizing issues under Alberta’s Residential Tenancies Act, SA 2004, c R-17.1. This report, and the others in the series, lay the groundwork for a larger project on residential tenancies. This series of reports does not make any recommendations to reform. Rather, the series is an inventory of issues. The first report introduced the project and focused on general issues with the Residential Tenancies Act. The second report […]
February 12, 2026
Contract or Property Law; Form and Delivery of Lease; Right to Assign and Sublet, Research Paper 7
The laws of contract and property are fundamentally different, with different common law, equitable, and statutory guarantees coming into play when dealing respectively with property and with a contract. The first part of this paper considers whether the relationship between landlord and tenant, as determined by the Residential Tenancies Act at the time of publication, should be regulated by the law of property or the law of contract, and how this regulation should work. The second part […]
| AREA OF LAW | Corporate and Commercial Landlord and Tenant Property Real Property |
| TAGS | subletting, sublease, resident, contract, landlord, lease, Property, rent, tenant |
| FORMAT | Publications |
| FILE | RPNo.7.pdf |
November 4, 1975