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inlawrev-2727	Krieger, Walter W.	Housing Code Violations and Tenant Remedies	1986	26	.pdf	application/pdf	13481	607	59	, the court's holding was based on the illegal contract doctrine, but the decision also indicates that a tenant may have to look to an implied warranty of habitability as a remedy for housing code violations where he has benefited from the illegal lease. Of course, if the tenant wishes to terminate the that the illegal contract defense is unavailable where the tenant has benefited from the lease by taking possession, ^One serious problem may still confront the landlord when he attempts to evict a tenant after the tenant has reported housing code violations to the proper authorities or has successfully pleaded an illegality defense or an implied warranty of habitability defense in a prior suit for possession based on the nonpayment of rent.	cache/inlawrev-2727.pdf	txt/inlawrev-2727.txt