# Threat to personal safety, Reason to break a lease? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 7, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-personal-safety-reason-to-break-a-lease/338904 "2006-01-07T16:56:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-personal-safety-reason-to-break-a-lease/338904/21 "2006-01-10T05:22:42Z")
> [@Ty Cobb](#): > > There’s a legal concept of “Quiet enjoyment of the property”, \*\*which can be used to break any lease. \*\* (emphasis added). No. No, there’s not. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-personal-safety-reason-to-break-a-lease/338904/22 "2006-01-10T06:15:56Z")
Not that Random needs any backup on this, but I read all of the relevant statutes in Ohio, and that term doesn’t come up. I also read the only book I could find on Ohio landlord-tenant law, and that term doesn’t come up. So… yeah. If that term even matters in the US, it’s probably on a single state basis or in your municipality. It certainly is not global. ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-personal-safety-reason-to-break-a-lease/338904/23 "2006-01-10T06:23:26Z")
Just to be clear – I don’t deny that the doctrine of quiet enjoyment exists. I do deny that it is some sort of tenant’s Get Out Of Lease Free card that is always (or even frequently) available to any tenant who who wants to break a lease. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-personal-safety-reason-to-break-a-lease/338904.md?page=1)