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Demised premises

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Wall

Wall. A demise in writing of the 'rooms situate on the first and second floors' of business premises, prima facie includes

Landlord and tenant

that title), such as to pay rent, repair, not to assign or otherwise touching and concerning the thing demised; they are not bound by privity of estate by their predecessor's personal undertakings which do not affect the … or agreement, the landlord is not liable for any repairs and the tenant is liable to use the premises in a tenant-like manner and to restore the premises to the landlord at the end of the term

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Apportionment

upon partition, or upon eviction from part of the land by title paramount, or where part of the demised premises became lost to the tenant by irruption of the sea, also by act of parties, e.g., upon surrender,

Complete destruction

a lessee is not relieved of his obligation to pay rent through the accidental destruction of the building demised to him presupposes that some part of the premises remains in existence for occupation by the tenant, irrespective

Fire

rent and the covenant to repair must be complied with by the tenant notwithstanding the destruction of the demised premises by fire, for which reason it is common to insert in each of these covenants an appropriate saving

Re-entry

a 'proviso for re-entry,' is inserted in every properly drawn lease, empowering the lessor to re-enter upon the demised premises if the rent is in arrear for a certain period, e.g., twenty-one days, or if there shall be

Occupy

796. [City of Nagpur Corporation Act, 1950 (2 of 1950)] In order to be in occupation of the demised premises, physical possession of the tenant therein is not an essential requisite for avoiding the penal con-sequences of ejectment,

Tenant by sufferance

extension of lease in his favour. A tenant by sufferance is entitled to remain in possession of the demised premises till he is evicted in the course of law, Mogilipuvvu Annapurnaiah v. Malampati Narisimha Rao, AIR 1982 AP

Surrender

amounts to an agreement by the tenant to abandon and by the landlord to resume possession of the demised premises, e.g., by the delivery and acceptance of keys, by the entering of the parties into a new contract

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