The Imperial Tea Company Limited V. Aramady

Present: Jayewardene A.J. 1923.

THE IMPERIAL TEA CO., LTD., v. ARAMADY.

 192-C. R. Nuwara Eliya, 7,352.

Landlord and tenant-Notice to quit " within " a month-Good notice- Date for which month's notice should run-Reasonable notice.

The plaintiff on February 28 gave notice to his tenant to quit the premises " within a month from the said date."

Held, that this was a good notice, as the tenant had the whole of the last day of the month within which to leave the premises.
The time from which a month should be calculated for the purposes of a notice to quit does not depend upon the date of the commencement of the tenancy.

The law requires that the tenant should have a reasonable notice, and a notice otherwise reasonable is not rendered unreasonable and invalid merely because it expires on some day other than the last day of the month calculated from the commencement of the tenancy.

THIS was an action for ejectment and rent by a landlord.

The facts are set out in the judgment of the Commissioner of Requests (M. T. Archibald, Esq.) :-

Defendant in this case is a monthly tenant. He admits that he was given a month's

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