RISK & REMEDIES · CRITICAL REVIEW PRIORITY
Indemnity, releases and liability limits
Allocates third-party claims, property damage, personal injury, business loss and defence obligations between the parties.
This is not model language.
The actual meaning depends on the complete lease, amendments, facts and governing law. Use the prompts below to extract and brief the issue; do not paste this page into a lease as a substitute for drafting and legal review.
Questions to answer before the legal call
- Is liability tied to fault, breach and areas within the party’s control?
- Who controls defence and settlement?
- Are indirect and consequential losses consistently addressed?
What to capture from the document
Tenant indemnity
Capture trigger, beneficiaries, losses, defence and exceptions.
Landlord indemnity/release
Record reciprocal protection and landlord liability limits.
Damage exclusions
Capture consequential, indirect, punitive and insured-loss treatment.
Patterns that deserve a closer read
- Indemnity for landlord negligence or matters outside tenant control
- Duty to defend triggered before responsibility is determined
- Conflicting waivers across indemnity, insurance and casualty clauses
A focused instruction for legal review
Map every indemnity, release, defence duty, standard of fault, beneficiary, damage exclusion and insurance backstop across the full lease.