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COVID-19, a pandemic is an unprecedented crisis which has spread across 209 countries and territories around the world.

The Supreme Court of India examines whether an eviction suit based on bonafide need survives the original landlord's death and whether legal heirs can amend pleadings to reflect their own requirements. The judgment addresses critical questions about procedural fairness, the doctrine of subsequent events, and the scope of judicial interference under Article 227 of the Constitution.

Mall leases have ceased to be in the nature of a tenancy agreement.

In the year 1971, the State Government had invited offers for the lease of a plot in Back Bay Reclamation Estate.

The process governing sale of land in India are manifold and vary across states. One of the biggest concerns for a prospective buyer is to gather information/literature on local laws...

In a recent decision passed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in the matter titled as "Himangni Enterprises v Kamaljeet Singh Ahulwalia", the Hon'ble Supreme Court bench comprising of Hon'ble Justices R K Agarwal ...

Long-term leasehold developments typically involve multiple stakeholders, including the principal lessee (original lessee) as well as a further transferee to whom the right to use the property may be subleased or further assigned (sublessee/assignee).

The Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her speech during the Union Budget 2019-2020, spoke about the proposed reform measures which the government would be undertaking to promote the housing sector

Restriction on Alienation / Transfer of Agricultural Land Under the Telangana Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1950 was enacted to inter alia, protect the rights of tenants of agricultural lands in the State of Telangana.

India is on an accelerated path of urbanisation and several Indian cities face the challenge of housing their growing population, especially the urban poor.

Can a tenant, after decades of accepting landlord's title and paying rent, later dispute such landlord's ownership over the property?

Nord Anglia Education Infrastructure Private Limited (the "Assessee") is an Indian company engaged in the educational infrastructural business and leases custom-built educational campuses along with provision of integrated infrastructural services such as housekeeping, security, and transport to schools.

If the property is self-acquired, not ancestral, the question of taking consent from anyone does not arise

The Maharashtra Agricultural Land Leasing Act, 2017 ("Act"), after having received the assent of the President of India, was published in the Maharashtra Gazette on June 27, 2023.

The Delhi High Court has vide its order dated 21 May 2020 in the case of Ramanand and ors v. Dr Girish Soni and anr (Rent Control Revision Petition No. 447/2017).

A Canadian court recently encountered an intriguing case1 regarding contract law where it had to determine whether the use of the "thumbs-up" emoji (👍)...

The Court in this Judgment has exhaustively addressed the issue of legitimacy of claims raised by the mining leaseholders to recommence mining operations...