Reducing Cases of Forfeiture of Bail

The tendency of the court is to rule on the performance of the contract rather than to determine a breach of contract.

A major rule of interpretation is that the commentator will not extend the scope of the prohibition set forth in the lease.
The court, therefore, tends to reduce the cases of forfeiture of bail and rent money, rather than to increase them, in order to avoid a situation in which borderline cases will be swept into the area of forfeiture.