1987 MLD 244 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

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AHMAD NASIR KHAN VS Khalifa FATEH MUHAMMAD Sindh Rented Premises Ordinance 1979--15 , Sindh Rented Premises Ordinance 1979 ---S.15(2)(iii)(b)--eviction of tenant on ground of change in use of premises and infringement of conditions--Expression "house"-Connotation--Where tenancy agreement, described rented premises as house with full detail of its rooms and other things attached to it, identification of such premises as 'house' in tenancy agreement, held, would indicate that same was exclusively rented out for residential purposes--It would be utterly illogical to say that identification of disputed premises in tenancy agreement by itself was not indicative of use to which premises was intended to be put by tenant--Where disputed premises was indicated as "house" in tenancy agreement, it would be taken that parties had used expression 'house' in sense in which 'house' was understood in common parlance or as indicated by its dictionary meaning.--[words and phrases].