Questão jurídica principal
How the settlement clause on post-move-out personal use and penalty had to be interpreted
Decisão extraída
The clause was to be understood in good faith as requiring the landlord to take actual possession and use the premises for its business within a reasonable time after the tenant left; a long delay without such use meant the condition was not met.
Fundamentação extraída
Contractual declarations are interpreted according to the objective good-faith standard. The purpose of the penalty was to secure that the stated own-use ground was genuine. Given the circumstances of the settlement, the tenant could understand 'personal use' to mean prompt actual use, not merely a theoretical reservation of use after extensive delay.