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Bamidbar | 2 Sivan 5777 | 27/05/2017




P'ninat Mishpat: Calculating Late Penalty According to Contract or Law – part II

The plaintiff (=pl) bought property from a building company (=def), which was supposed to complete construction by 20.06.2014. After negotiations, the contract included a penalty of 2,800 shekels a month against def for lateness, starting from two months after the target date. Pl received the apartment more than 18 months late. According to a new law, a buyer is compensated for more than 60 days of lateness (retroactively from the beginning) according to the following schedule – 150% of the apartment’s rental value for the first 8 months; 125% of the value after that. Buyers cannot waive their legal rights. Pl claims that the apartment’s value is 4,200 shekels and claims 105,275 shekels. Def claims the payment should be drastically reduced on two general grounds. Since the contract included an arbitration agreement to beit din, Halacha, which recognizes the sides’ agreement, rather than the law, should be binding. Therefore: 1. The monthly rate is 2,800. 2. Payments start only after two months. 3. The contract gives a two month extension for the buyer’s requesting building changes, which pl made. Furthermore, the following delays, which were beyond def’s control, push off the target date: 4. (Arab) workers could not come to the site during the fighting in the summer of 2014. 5. The water authority illegitimately delayed connecting the water supply, which delayed by months receipt of a Tofes 4, needed for legal occupancy. 6. The fire department improperly delayed approval for several weeks. 7. Pl refused to receive control of the apartment for two months after it was ready.


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Yehoshafat Yecheskel ben Milka

Ro'i Moshe Elchanan ben Gina Devra

Margalit bat Miriam

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who passed away on

Sivan 17, 5774

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Rav Carmel's father,

who passed away on

8th of Iyar 5776


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Yaffa's father,

who passed away on

11th of Iyar 5776

 

Mrs. Sara Wengrowsky

bat R’ Moshe Zev a”h.

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10  Tamuz  5774


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who passed away

on

Kislev 9, 5769

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o.b.m

R ' Yaakov ben Abraham & Aisha

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A weekly divrei Torah leaflet: A Glimpse at the Parasha, Ask the Rabbi, From the writings of Harav Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook, zt”l, Pninat Mishpat (Jewish Monetary Law).

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