JOINT LEASE

Existence of more than one person at least on the one party of the lease contract creates the joint lease. The joint lease may arise out of signing the contract, amending the existing one or emerging changes on the lease relationship. Typical examples of existence of more than one person on the lessor side of the lease contract are joint ownership or co-ownership of the leased property. Typical examples of existence of more than one person on the lessee side of the lease contract are the existence of co-ownership or marital union between lessees or living in the same house without marriage. The applicable legal rules to the internal relationship in the joint lease are those that are also valid for the community, which consist of lessors or lessees. On the other hand, the valid legal rules for the external relationship in the joint lease do not, in principle, differ from the individual lease contracts. In the joint lease, each one of the lessors and the lessees is the party to the contract and thereby the obligee and the obligor of the contract. If joint and several obligation or joint and several creditorship of joint lessors or lessees is not agreed on the contract or is not prescribed by the law, then they are partial debtors or creditors. It is not possible to terminate the joint lease contract by some of the lessees and lessors or against some of the lessees and lessor; the joint lease must be terminated in the aggregate