Reply To: Saving shul seats, sidurrim for others not yet here

To CTLawyer, re: your contactual agreement regarding your seat, does it give you rights in the seat or the place (or both)? The nafka mina is l’moshel, if the seat is relocated and regulated to an “inferior” location, do you have a claim to the place or just the seat – wherever it may end up?

An actual situation, if someone had a seat on the Mizrach wall of the shul, but the shul has recently renovated and expanded the sanctuary 10 ft eastward. That means the e new mizrach wall is 10 feet east of the former mizrach wall. Is the seat and place of the individual still on the mizrach wall – wherever the new mizrach wall is, which is now 10 feet east of the former location, or is the place remaining exactly where it was, which is now 10 feet west of the mizrach wall (a distance away from the new mizrach wall)?