{"id":106060,"date":"1951-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1951-02-13T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/lingambhotla-subbayya-vs-the-subordinate-judge-and-anr-on-14-february-1951"},"modified":"2015-02-23T04:23:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T22:53:26","slug":"lingambhotla-subbayya-vs-the-subordinate-judge-and-anr-on-14-february-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/lingambhotla-subbayya-vs-the-subordinate-judge-and-anr-on-14-february-1951","title":{"rendered":"Lingambhotla Subbayya vs The Subordinate Judge And Anr. on 14 February, 1951"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Lingambhotla Subbayya vs The Subordinate Judge And Anr. on 14 February, 1951<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 1951 Mad 864 a, (1951) 1 MLJ 514<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Rajamannar<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Rajamannar, Somasundaram<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Rajamannar, C.J.  <\/p>\n<p> 1. The petnr. filed an appln. for eviction on the ground of default in payment of rent. Both the Bent Controller &amp; the Appellate Tribunal found that there was default, but held that default by itself cannot be regarded as a valid ground to eject a tenant in a case where the tenant proves that by long practice the house owner did not insist on regular monthly payment of rent. The Appellate Tribunal thought that this conclusion was justified by the spirit of Act xv [15] of 1946. We have no hesitation in saying that both the Kent Controller &amp; the Appellate Tribunal committed a clear error of law. There cannot be an agreement under which rent is payable at irregular intervals. It may be that, the landlord was not insisting on regular payments &amp; was accepting without protest arrears of rent which had accumulated ; but when he choose a to apply Under Section 7 of the Act, he will be entitled to an order of eviction if he can prove that the tenant has not paid or tendered the rent by the last day of the month nest following that for which the rent is payable. It is not suggested that the tenancy was not a monthly tenancy; therefore, the rent for each month was payable before the last day of the month next following. Both the Eent Controller &amp; the Appellate Tribunal have found that there was default in payment of rent according to this provision. They ought to have, therefore, passed an order of eviction. The orders of the Bent Controller &amp; the Appellate Tribunal are quashed &amp; there will be an order for eviction in favour of the petnr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Lingambhotla Subbayya vs The Subordinate Judge And Anr. on 14 February, 1951 Equivalent citations: AIR 1951 Mad 864 a, (1951) 1 MLJ 514 Author: Rajamannar Bench: Rajamannar, Somasundaram JUDGMENT Rajamannar, C.J. 1. The petnr. filed an appln. for eviction on the ground of default in payment of rent. Both the Bent Controller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lingambhotla Subbayya vs The Subordinate Judge And Anr. on 14 February, 1951 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/lingambhotla-subbayya-vs-the-subordinate-judge-and-anr-on-14-february-1951\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lingambhotla Subbayya vs The Subordinate Judge And Anr. on 14 February, 1951 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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