sub-tenancy Archives

Sub-tenant bound by eviction order against tenant

Eviction order against tenant binds sub-tenant if he fails to establish his tenancy directly under landlord’s predecessor-in-interest: Himachal Pradesh HC

“The sub-tenant was not a necessary party to an eviction petition on the ground of sub-letting, but since in the instant case the landlord herself had impleaded sub-tenant as a party, it could not be said that the sub-tenant was not the aggrieved party.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Landlord does not have to affirmatively prove the payment of rent in case of sub-letting by tenant

Supreme Court: Explaining the rule of inference in matters relating to sub-tenancy or sub-letting, the bench RK Agrawal and Ashok Bhushan, JJ

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Landlord cannot be held liable for a repairing covenant without the knowledge of the disrepair under the Landlord and Tenant Act,1985

Supreme Court of United Kingdom: In an appeal filed by a Landlord against the liability from failure to keep ‘paved area outside