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Answer: Considering that law is above any agreements this issue shall be addressed in accordance with the laws. Pursuant to Section 2140 of the Civil law, necessary and useful expenditures that a lessee or tenant has made for property, shall be reimbursed by the lessor or renter in accordance with the general provisions regarding reimbursement of expenditures. Improvements done to premises by the lessee are considered useful expenditures within the meaning of the Civil law of Latvia.

According to Section 867 useful expenditures shall be reimbursed to persons who have, in good faith, administered the property of another as if it were their own, provided they have not yet received reimbursement, having received income from this property, which shall be set off in such cases. These expenditures shall be reimbursed only to the extent that they have increased the value of the property. Therefore if there’s a possibility to prove that the improvements have increased the value of the property the said expenses may be deemed useful and the lessee shall have the right to request relevant compensation.

The agreement’s provision restricting the lessee to receive compensation shall also be addressed in accordance with the laws. According to Section 1570 of Civil law immoral and illegal conditions shall entirely nullify the instruction dependant upon them. Section 1553 prescribes that conditions of a transaction become impossible if such are illegal. Therefore upon referring the case to court in order to recover expenses from the lessor, one shall consider petitioning the court to admit the said provision invalid.

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