Residential Accommodation - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition residential-accommodation

Definition :

Residential accommodation, simply means that the accommodation should be capable of being used as a residence or should have been built as a residence. Even if a portion of the accommodation is being used by the tenant as his office, this would merely mean the purpose other than residential, but would not convert a residential accommoda-tion into a non-residential accommodation, P.N. Karkhanis v. P.N. Chopra, 1977 RCJ 560.

Residential accommodation, the expression 'residen-tial' qualifies the word 'accommodation' and the former is clearly descriptive of the latter. The expression, therefore, clearly denotes the purpose for which the premises was built, the use to which it was intended to be put and the category to which it belongs. It is used in contradistinction to a shop or a house of business. Whether an accommodation is residential or not would, therefore, depend on these factors and the purpose for which it was let out to a particular tenant or the actual use to which it is put or has been put and whether this has been either with or without the permission of the landlord, would be wholly irrelevant in a deter-mination of the question if the accommodation is residential in character, Ram Chander v. Gokul Chand Gupta, 1977 RCJ 414