Manindra Nath De vs Man Singh on 14 February, 1950
21. Now keeping this in view, what is the inference that can be drawn from the production of a rent receipt ? It is possible that when the tenant paid the rent in respect of which the rent receipts were granted, he had in mind the obligation imposed on him by the Rent Control Act, It is possible that he wanted to pay the-rent with a view that the landlord should accept it as rent under the contract of tenancy which has been determined and with a view to renew it. The production of a mere rent receipt does not help to decide under which of the two categories the payment of rent evidenced by the rent receipt falls. It is, as has been said in some of the decided cases, an equivocal evidence and, being equivocal, it necessarily is not enough to prove an agreement. For this reason I am unable to hold that the rent receipts that have been produced in this case are sufficient evidence of an agreement to continue the tenancy and so of waiver of the notice to quit. This is also the view expressed by Chagla C. J. in Baldeodas Mahabirprosad v. G.P. Sonavala A. I. R. (35) 1948 Bom. 385 : (50 Bom. L. R. 233). The onus of proving what is called "waiver of the notice to quit" and what in reality is an agreement is on the party relying on it and the waiver is not proved by the production of a rent receipt only after the Rent Act has come into operation.