https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172574 A contractual tenant's tenancy is heritable and, absent a contrary statutory restriction, devolves on all heirs. The amended definition in Section 2(h) of the West Bengal Premises Tenancy Act, 1956, when read with the legislative background, was intended to confine the "ordinarily residing" limitation to heirs of a statutory tenant continuing in possession after termination. Applying that limitation to a contractual tenant would improperly cut down the inheritable nature of contractual tenancy. Accordingly, the restriction applies only to statutory tenancy, and the respondent, as heir of the deceased contractual tenant, succeeded to the tenancy. en-us Thu, 10 Nov 1994 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:29:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172574 A contractual tenant's tenancy is heritable and, absent a contrary statutory restriction, devolves on all heirs. The amended definition in Section 2(h) of the West Bengal Premises Tenancy Act, 1956, when read with the legislative background, was intended to confine the "ordinarily residing" limitation to heirs of a statutory tenant continuing in possession after termination. Applying that limitation to a contractual tenant would improperly cut down the inheritable nature of contractual tenancy. Accordingly, the restriction applies only to statutory tenancy, and the respondent, as heir of the deceased contractual tenant, succeeded to the tenancy. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 10 Nov 1994 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172574