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23
SEP
2022

Overview of Rent Laws

Purpose of the Rent Act: The East Punjab Rent Restrictions Act 1949 is a complete legislation in itself which lays down complete procedure for adjudication of disputes between landlords and tenant and provides for classification of buildings as residential, non residential,...
02
JUL
2020

The Punjab Rent Act 1995 : Treading On Thin Ice

Rent Legislations have been the subject matter of a lot of criticism and a continuous discussion has been going on over the years debating the advantages and disadvantages of rent laws in India. While the proponents of rent control laws claim that the rent control legislation...
14
MAY
2020

Mesne Profits – As claimed under East Punjab Rent Restriction Act 1949

The meaning of the word “mesne profits” as defined in the Webster Dictionary is – profits (as from crops) earned by one in wrongful possession of property. This word is often used as a legal tool, asserting to be a legal right, to recover the gains(profits),...
12
MAY
2020

East Punjab Rent Restriction Law 1949 – Inception and Conception

As the word Rent suggests it can easily be construed that any Rent Law is a law that is used as a tool to control and regulate the relationship and also adjudicate the disputes arising between the landlord and tenant. The historical background of the rent legislation in the...
19
APR
2019

Falsus in uno and falsus in omnibus with regard to grounds of ejectment under the Rent Acts and Under the Law of Evidence Act

Almost all the rent Acts applicable in India provides more than one ground of ejectment. Thus where the landlord in the ejectment application has taken more than one ground of ejectment and if one of the ground has been found to be false then whether the ejectment application...