law: Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 
  2. Definitions. -
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires-
  (A) Basic rent", in relation to premises
  
  let out before the 2nd day of June, 1944, means the basic rent of such premises
  
  as determined in accordance with the provisions of the Second Schedule;
  (b) "Controller" means a Controller
  
  appointed under sub-section (1) of section 35 and includes an additional
  
  Controller appointed under sub-section (2) of that section;
  (c) "Fair rate" means the fair rate
  
  fixed under section 31 and includes the rate as revised under section 32;
  (d) "Hotel or lodging house" means a
  
  building or part of a building where lodging with or without board or other
  
  services is provided for a monetary consideration; 
  (e) "Landlord" means a person who,
  
  for the time being is receiving, or is entitled to receive, the rent of any
  
  premises, whether on his own account or on account of or on behalf of, or for
  
  the benefit of, any other person or as a trustee, guardian or receiver for any
  
  other person or who would so receive the rent to be entitled to receive the
  
  rent, if the premises were let to a tenant;
  (f) "Lawful increase" means an
  
  increase in rent permitted under the provisions of this Act; 
  (g) "Manager of a hotel" includes
  
  any person in charge of the management of the hotel;
  (h) "Owner of a lodging house" means
  
  a person who receives or is entitled to receive whether on this own account or
  
  on behalf of himself and others or as an agent or a trustee for any other
  
  person, any monetary consideration from any person on account of board, and
  
  lodging or other services provided in the lodging house;
  ( i )
  
  "premises" means any building or part of a building which is, or is
  
  intended to be, let separately for use as a residence or for commercial use or
  
  for any other purpose, and includes.-
  ( i )
  
  the garden, grounds and outhouses, if any, appertaining to such building or part
  
  of the building;
  (ii) any furniture
  
  supplied by the landlord for use in such building or par of the building;
  but does not include a
  
  room in a hotel or lodging house;
  (j) "prescribed" means prescribed by
  
  rules made under this Act;
  (k) "standard rent", in relation to
  
  any premises, means the standard rent referred to in section 6 or where the
  
  standard rent has been increased under section 7, such increased rent;
  [(l) (Note: Subs. by Act 18 of 1976, sec.2,
  
  for clause (1) ( w.r.e.f . 1-12-1975))
  
  "tenant" means any person by whom or on whose account or behalf the
  
  rent of any premises is, or, but for a special contract, would be, payable, and
  
  includes-
  ( i )
  
  a sub-tenant;
  (ii) any person
  
  continuing in possession after the termination of his tenancy; and
  (iii) in the event of
  
  the death of the person continuing in possession after the termination of his
  
  tenancy, subject to the order of succession and to this clause, such of the
  
  aforesaid person’s-
  (a) spouse,
  (b) son or daughter, or, where there are both
  
  son and daughter, both of them,
  (c) parents,
  (d) daughter-in-law, being the widow of his
  
  pre-deceased son,  as had been ordinarily living in the premises with such
  
  person as a member or members of his family up to the date of his death, but
  
  does not include,-
  any person against whom an order or decree for
  
  eviction has been made, except where such decree or order for eviction is
  
  liable to be re-opened under the proviso of section 3 of the Delhi Rent Control
  
  (Amendment) Act, 1976 (18 of 1976);
  (B) any person to whom a license, as defined
  
  by section 52 of the Indian Easements Act, 1882 (5 of 1882), has been granted.
  Explanation1.-The order of
  
  succession in the event of the death of the person continuing in possession after
  
  the termination of his tenancy shall be as follows:-
  (a) firstly, his surviving spouse;
  (b) secondly, his son or daughter, or both, if
  
  there is no surviving spouse, or if the surviving spouse did not ordinarily
  
  live with the deceased person as a member of his family up to the date of his
  
  death;
  (c) thirdly, his parents, if there is no
  
  surviving spouse, son or daughter or any of them, did not ordinarily live in
  
  the premises as a member of the family of the deceased person up to the date of
  
  his death; and
  (d) fourthly, his daughter-in-law, being the
  
  widow of his pre-deceased son, if there is no surviving spouse, son, daughter
  
  or parents of the deceased person, or if such surviving spouse, son, daughter
  
  or parents, or any of them, did not ordinarily live in the premises as a member
  
  of the family of the deceased person up to the date of his death.
  Explanation II.-If the person, who
  
  acquires, by succession, the right to continue in possession after the termination
  
  of the tenancy, was not financially dependent on the deceased person on the
  
  date of his death, such successor shall acquire such right for a limited period
  
  of one year; and on the expiry of that period, or on his death, whichever is
  
  earlier, the right of such successor to continue in possession after the
  
  termination of the tenancy shall become extinguished.
  Explanation III.- For the removal of
  
  doubts, it is hereby declared that, -
  (a) where, by reason of Explanation II, the
  
  right of any successor to continue in possession after the termination of the
  
  tenancy becomes extinguished, such extinguished shall not affect the right of
  
  any other succession of the same category to continue in possession after the
  
  termination of the tenancy; but if there is no other successor of the same
  
  category, the right to continue in possession after the termination of the
  
  tenancy shall not, on such extinguishment, pass on to any other successor,
  
  specified in any lower category or categories, as the case may be;
  (b) the right of every successor, referred to
  
  in Explanation I, to continue in possession after the termination of the
  
  tenancy, shall be personal to him and shall not, on the death of such
  
  successor, develop on any of his heirs];
  (m). "urban area" has the same
  
  meaning as in the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 (66 of 1957).