JUDGMENT
1. The defendant in this case was the tenant of the plaintiff in respect of a certain shop with buildings appertaining to the same. The suit was one in adjustment against the defendant, and the Courts below have differed on the question whether a certain notice served by the plaintiff on the defendant was valid to terminate the tenancy under the provisions of Section 106 of the Transfer of Property Act, IV of 1882. The first Court held that it was not and that, consequently, the plaintiff was not entitled to a decree for ejectment, or to any decree except one for arrears of rent, The lower Appellate Court has held that the notice was valid to terminate the tenancy and has remanded the case to the first Court, because on this view of the matter there remain other questions to be determined before a final decree could be passed. The appeal before us is against the order of remand. One point taken is that, inasmuch as the law requires a notice expiring with the end of a month of the tenancy, the reference in the notice to the vacating of the house by the 30th of June 1919 rendered it invalid, as the reference should have been to the day following, namely, the 1st of July. There is no force in this contention, indeed it could not be seriously pressed. On the wording of the notice as a whole, it is obvious that the tenant was given until the expiration of the month of the tenancy, that is to say, until midnight of the 30th of June, to vacate the house and, go far as this point gees, the notice was unquestionably valid and in accordance with the requirements of the law. The other point taken is a somewhat more arguable one. The landlord did not confine himself to giving his tenant notice to quit. He certainly did this and up to a certain point be did so in of equivocal terms; but he went on to add that he desired the tenant to take notice further that, if he did not vacate the house by the date mentioned in the notice, he, the landlord, world hold the tenant liable from the 1st of July 1919 to rent at a certain enhanced rate. The contention before us is that the addition of this Clause to the |notice left it undetermined whether the landlord did or did not desire to terminate the tenancy, or, scary other, prove the tenant an option to stay on as a tenant at the higher rent earned in the last portion of the notice. On behalf of the "plaintiff-respondent, it has been contended before his that the concluding words of the notice in no way affect the former portion; that they did not amount even to the offer of a new tenancy, but are merely an indication of the rate at which the landlord will claim drawback in the event of the tenant's disregarding the notice and staying on as a trespasser. We do not think it necessary to go quite this length in order to determine the present appeal The principles governing the decision in a cane of this sort have been laid down by a Pull Bench of this Court in Bradley v. Atkinton 7 A. 899 : A.W.N. (1885) 288 :4 Ind. Dec. (N.S.) 990 We find in an English Case, Ahearn v. Bellman (1879) 4 Ex. D. 204 : 48 L.J. EX. 681 : 40 L.T. 711 : 27 W.R. 928 certain remarks of Bramwell, Lord Justice, which seem precisely to cover the state of affairs created by the notice now before us. It is there said that, if an offer is made by the landlord which the tenant may conceivably accept the question will then be whether that offer was or was not accepted.". The practice words in the report, at page 204, which we desire to quote, are as follows: "Had he (i.e., the tenant) done so (i.e., accepted the offer) the notice to quit would have been as efficacious as it was before, and would have put an end to the old tenancy, but there would, at the same time, have been created a new tenancy. I think there would have been no difference if the notice had been given in one letter and the offer made in another letter at a subsequent time. I cannot understand how it can be said that an offer of a new tenancy in any way affects the validity of the notice to deter-mice the old one; if anything, it corroborates it, because it supposes 4hat the old tenancy is gone, otherwise there would be no competency to enter into a new one. "Another point of view from which this case and similar cases can be looked at is this. We may ask whether the notice actually issued by the plaintiff to the defendant would or would not have bound the plaintiff if the defendant had acted upon its terms. In the present case that question admits of no answer but one. If the defendant had complied with the notice and vacated the premises on the 30th of June, the plaintiff would have been bound, and by no possibility could he have suggested that the old tenancy continued, or that a new tenancy had been created. With regard to the suggestion that a new tenancy at Rs. 100 a month is offered by the concluding words of the notice, it seems sufficient to say that the defendant, so far from accepting that offer, has up to this moment strenuously repudiated it, Something has been said in argument to-day by way of a suggestion that the defendant should be allowed the option of accepting this offer now, but we see no reason whatever why any such iudulgence should be extended to him. There is one more point taken in the memorandum of appeal as to which we ought to say a few words. The plaintiff claimed damages from the 1st of July 1919, up to the date of the actual vacating of the house, whether in execution of the decree of the Court or in anticipation of such decree, at the rate of Rss. 100 a month. In the memorandum of appeal before us it is assumed that; this question is concluded in favour of the plaintiff by the judgment of the lower Appellate Court, but this is obviously not so. The case goes bask to the Court of first instance for the trial of this question along with others still left open. It will be for the Court to determine whether or not, under the circumstances and in view of the fqui-ties of the case, it is proper that the deferent. should be bound to pay damages at the rate which the plaintiff had warned him in the notice of ejectment that he would claim. Subject to these remarks, we dismiss this appeal with costs.