Americans are not exempt from the Landlords and Tenants Ordinance of 1934, the District Court of Jaffa has ruled, rejecting the plea of an American who maintained that the ordinance was a violation of the Anglo-American agreement which preceded the designation of Great Britain as the mandatory power over Palestine.
The American’s contention was that the ordinance, in limiting rentals to not more than $12.50 per room per month, violated the provision of the agreement which declares that the property of
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