The fire clause of the lease is not confined to part of a building, but applies to a lease of an entire building as well, and therefore applies to this case. However, in order to give meaning to the whole clause it is necessary to construe "or" to read "and", since obviously it was not intended to give the landlord an absolute right of termination irrespective of how slight the fire damage...
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