Srinivasa Aiyangar, J.

1. On behalf of the plaintiff appellant in this second appeal Mr. Raghava Rao has addressed to me a long, and learned argument, and after considering all that he has submitted I have come to the conclusion that the second appeal must be dismissed.

2. The plaintiff as landlord sued to eject the defendant, his tenant, on the ground that the rent in respect of the land was not paid by the tenant on or before the 1st April for the fasli, and that, according to the clause in the lease, forfeiture followed. The covenant or condition in the lease is to this effect: the tenant, it is stated, should pay the rent due on or before the 1st March, and if he should make default, pay the same with interest at 12 per cent. per annum on or before the 1st April following; and that if, even then he should make default in the payment of the rent due he was liable to be ejected from the holding even without notice. The argument of Mr. Raghava Rao, the learned vakil for the appellant, was that this period between the 1st March and the 1st April was, what he-terms "days of grace" and his contention was that, if in any lease the landlord gave the tenant any days of grace, then