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(1) [1964] 2 S.C.R. 114-123. (2) A.I.R. 1949 Bom. 4 2-44.

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For the aforesaid reasons we hold that the compromise deed did not create a lease. Therefore, the judgment debtor is not a tenant within S. 2(5) of the Act which defines "tenant" to mean "any person by whom or on whose behalf rent is payable for -any house and includes every person who, from time to time, derives title under a tenant, or a person continuing in possession after 'the termination of his tenancy otherwise than under the provisions of this Act, and shall include any person against whom a suit for ejectment is pending in a Court of competent jurisdiction but not a person against whom a decree or order for eviction has been made by such a Court."