Walk It Through: The Seizure
Drugs seized on the premises as a breach, no waiver by waiting, and ten days to appeal.
Police search an apartment and seize illegal drugs from one tenant's room.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One apartment and one search. How long the notice to quit runs for a drug breach, the criminal charge, and the other tenants in the unit are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Appeal to the court of common pleasEither side's appeal of a residential judgment, taken within ten days.
- Notice to quitThe landlord's written notice to leave: ten days from service for rent not paid on demand, fifteen days at the end of a lease of a year or less, and thirty days for a lease of more than a year.
- Breach of a condition of the leaseWhat the section makes certain acts involving illegal drugs: a first conviction for sale, manufacture or distribution on the premises, a second violation of the controlled substance act there, or a seizure of illegal drugs on the leased premises. Each is grounds for removing the tenant.