Cap. 16 ст. 1535Payment of rent in advance.

(1) Every payment in advance in respect of rent of rural tenements is null, if any prejudice is caused thereby to the hypothecary creditors of the lessor or to the persons succeeding to the property under an entail, or to whom, in consequence of any dissolution of his right, the property passes.

(2) Every payment in advance in respect of rent of an urban tenement for more than six months is also null, if any prejudice as aforesaid is caused thereby.