Assignor Remains Liable on Commercial Lease 
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Published: June 7, 2011
Tags: Fairfax County Circuit Court, Judge Bruce D. White, Landlord/Tenant, Virginia Circuit Courts
Under the parties’ commercial lease, the assignment of the lease, in which the assignor agreed to remain jointly and severally liable on the lease, did not make the assignor a surety on the lease who could be released by a material modification of the lease, and the Fairfax Circuit Court says the assignors continued to ...
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