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If the rent is payable quarterly, or yearly, six months’ notice to quit must be given ; the notice to expire on the same day of the year when you took the house, warehouse, &c. Suppose you took a house the first day of May ; then you must give notice a day or two before the first of November, for then the six months’ notice will expire on the same day of the year on which you took it, viz. on the first day of May. Leases for less than three years are often made by word of mouth. But in all cases it is best to have a written agreement ; for sometimes the words of a mutual agreement may be forgotten, or be misconstrued on account of imperfect remembrance. All leases for terms above three years must be by deed of agreement, upon stamped paper, and properly signed and witnessed. It is best to have this deed made by a solicitor. The tenant should specially inquire if the landholder is the freeholder, or if he is merely a tenant by lease, and is about only to sub-let it. If so, he should inquire if the rent has been regularly paid, and also the rates and taxes, either by himself, if he has it on lease, or by the previous lessee. In cases where a landlord leases or lets a furnished house, it is sometimes customary to receive from the tenant, and his surety, a bond for the due performance of the covenant or agreement, stipulations, and for the payment of rent : — for being a furnished house, he cannot enforce the payment of the rent by distraint. When a house is let from year to year, and then sublet, the incoming subtenant must inquire if the rent to the chief landlord, the queen’s taxes, and the local rates, have been duly paid, for he will be answerable for any arrears. If a lessee holds possession after the expiration of his term, he is until he has paid rent subsequently due, merely a tenant by sufferance, and may be dispossessed at any moment ; but as soon as he has paid, and the landlord has received any such rent, he constitutes himself a tenant from year to year, and can legally give, and must legally receive, a proper notice to quit. A distress can not now be levied on a Lodger's goods for arrears of rent OWING BY THE TENANT OF THE HOUSE, providing the lodger make and serve a declaration in writing upon the bailiff or owner of the premises, stating that the goods so described belong to him, and that the tenant of the house has no right or property in the same, he must also state how much rent he owes to the said tenant. This rent, or so much of it as he owes, must be paid to the bailiff or landlord, taking a receipt for the same. If after tender of rent owing by the lodger and the declaration made to the bailiff or landlord, the goods of a lodger are distrained upon, he may enter an action for Illegal distress. The amount LAN LAV paid by him to the superior landlord cannot be recovered from him by the tenant of the house, but must be considered as really paid to him. If lodgings are taken for a specified time, a notice to quit is not required. Should the lodger continue to occupy after the expiration of the time, he becomes a regular lodger. (Unless he has an agreement to the contrary.) If the lodger owes rent, the housekeeper can detain his goods, or chattels whilst on the premises, or distrain in a similar manner as a landlord does the goods of his tenant.