106Duration of certain leases in absence of written contract or local usage
1[106. Duration of certain leases in absence of written contract or local usage.-- (1) In the absence of a contract or local law or usage to the contrary, a lease of immovable property for agricultural or manufacturing purposes shall be deemed to be a lease from year to year, terminable, on the part of either lessor or lessee, by six months' notice; and a lease of immovable property for any other purpose shall be deemed to be a lease from month to month, terminable, on the part of either lessor or lessee, by fifteen days' notice.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the period mentioned in sub-section (1) shall commence from the date of receipt of notice.
(3) A notice under sub-section (1) shall not be deemed to be invalid merely because the period mentioned therein falls short of the period specified under that sub-section, where a suit or proceeding is filed after the expiry of the period mentioned in that sub-section.
(4) Every notice under sub-section (1) must be in writing, signed by or on behalf of the person giving it, and either be sent by post to the party who is intended to be bound by it or be tendered or delivered personally to such party, or to one of his family or servants at his residence, or (if such tender or delivery is not practicable) affixed to a conspicuous part of the property.]
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1. Subs. by Act 3 of 2003, s. 2, for section 106 (w.e.f. 31-12-2002).
- 105 Lease defined
- 106 Duration of certain leases in absence of written contract or local usage
- 107 leases how made
- 108 Rights and liabilities of lessor and lessee
- 109 Rights of lessor‟s transferee
- 110 Exclusion of day on which term commences
- 111 Determination of lease
- 112 Waiver of forfeiture
- 113 Waiver of notice to quit
- 114 Relief against forfeiture for non-payment of rent
- 114A Relief against forfeiture in certain other cases
- 115 Effect of surrender and forfeiture on under-leases
- 116 Effect of holding over
- 117 Exemption of leases for agricultural purposes