TPA Section 114A: Relief against forfeiture in certain other cases
Transfer of Property Act, 1882 · Chapter 5: Leases of immovable property
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[114A. Relief against forfeiture in certain other cases.—Where a lease of immoveable property has determined by forfeiture for a breach of an express condition which provides that on breach thereof the lessor may re-enter, no suit for ejectment shall lie unless and until the lessor has served on the lessee a notice in writing— (a) specifying the particular breach complained of; and (b) if the breach is capable of remedy, requiring the lessee to remedy the breach; and the lessee fails, within a reasonable time from the date of the service of the notice, to remedy the breach, if it is capable of remedy. Nothing in this section shall apply to an express condition against the assigning, under - letting, parting with the possession, or disposing, of the property leased, or to an express condition relating to forfeiture in case of non-payment of rent.]
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Other sections in this chapter
- 105. Lease defined
- 106. Duration of certain leases in absence of written contract or local usage
- 107. Leases how made
- 108. Rights and liabilities of lessor and lessee
- 109. Rights of lessor's transferee
- 110. Exclusion of day on which term commences
- 111. Determination of lease
- 112. Waiver of forfeiture
- 113. Waiver of notice to quit
- 114. Relief against forfeiture for non-payment of rent
- 115. Effect of surrender and forfeiture on underleases
- 116. Effect of holding over
- 117. Exemption of leases for agricultural purposes