A landlord's wrongful refusal to give possession from the outset of a lease constitutes an eviction suspending the tenant's obligation to pay rent (but not outgoings or other covenants), and standard lease terms such as 'no deduction' clauses, abatement provisions, and whole agreement clauses do not displace this common law rule.
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