https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173710 A valid landlord-tenant relationship could not arise where a statutory body failed to comply with mandatory municipal requirements for written execution and attestation of contracts and transfers. The rent control law's definitions of landlord, premises and tenant still presupposed a legally effective letting, and its overriding clause did not displace the municipal statute in the absence of real inconsistency. Receipt of rent did not by itself prove tenancy, no estoppel could operate against the statutory prohibition, and part performance was unavailable. On that basis, the applicants were not tenants within the Act and their applications for standard rent were incompetent. en-us Wed, 13 Sep 1961 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:28:11 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173710 A valid landlord-tenant relationship could not arise where a statutory body failed to comply with mandatory municipal requirements for written execution and attestation of contracts and transfers. The rent control law's definitions of landlord, premises and tenant still presupposed a legally effective letting, and its overriding clause did not displace the municipal statute in the absence of real inconsistency. Receipt of rent did not by itself prove tenancy, no estoppel could operate against the statutory prohibition, and part performance was unavailable. On that basis, the applicants were not tenants within the Act and their applications for standard rent were incompetent. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 13 Sep 1961 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173710