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Records how the people sharing a flat stand between themselves: who the flatmates are and which head tenancy they live under (referenced, never modified), the deposit split and the formula for returning a leaver's share, rent and bills apportionment with a named cut-off at move-out, the internal exit notice and the consent a replacement needs, optional house rules, and an express statement that nothing in it creates a sublease or licence or varies the head tenancy — the landlord's rights are untouched. The parties are co-occupant and co-occupant: for the owner-and-occupant paper itself — the agreement the landlord signs — use the Rental / Lease Agreement (its room-rental-pg preset) or the Leave and Licence Agreement (its pg-co-living preset); this Agreement sits beneath that paper and governs the occupants between themselves.

A landlord-and-tenant agreement for residential or commercial premises: the rent and when it is due, the security deposit, the term and any lock-in, escalation, who repairs what, and how either side ends it. The eleven months most of these run for is a registration convention rather than a rule — s. 17 of the Registration Act makes any lease exceeding one year compulsorily registrable, and an unregistered one cannot be proved for its terms. State Rent Control Acts apply on top. Creates a tenancy — an interest in the property in the tenant's favour under the Transfer of Property Act. For bare permission to occupy WITHOUT creating a tenancy — the leave-and-licence arrangement standard in Maharashtra — use the Leave and Licence Agreement instead.

Grants the Licensee bare permission to use and occupy premises for a period, WITHOUT creating a tenancy or any interest in the property — juridical possession stays with the Licensor (Section 52, Indian Easements Act). The standard instrument for residential flats in Maharashtra, where registration is compulsory whatever the term (Section 55, Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999), and commonly chosen elsewhere to keep the occupant a licensee rather than a tenant. If the arrangement is meant to create a tenancy — an interest in the property, with a lessor-lessee relationship and tenancy-law consequences — use the Lease / Rental Agreement instead.

A landlord's notice determining a tenancy and calling on the tenant to deliver up possession. Where the tenancy is month to month and there is no written notice clause, s. 106 of the Transfer of Property Act fixes fifteen days running from receipt. Note that State Rent Control Acts override s. 106 wherever they conflict, and most prescribe their own grounds, periods and forum — a tenancy inside a Rent Act is usually not determinable by a bare notice at all.

A former tenant's written demand for the return of a security deposit after vacating. It records the tenancy, what was paid and when, the handover, anything the tenant accepts may fairly be deducted, and the sum now claimed. No statute fixes a period for returning a deposit, so the time allowed is the tenant's own.

Puts a home renovation, repair or improvement job on paper between the owner and the contractor: the site and a line-item scope, milestone-linked payments where each instalment falls due only on completed work — never by date alone, the antidote to the big-advance-then-abandonment pattern — materials with named brands and substitution only by written consent, site access and working hours for an occupied home, a timeline with a grace period and then the owner's remedies, an abandonment clause letting the owner complete through others and set off the cost, a defect-liability period after handover, and statutory, safety and debris obligations with no structural change until permissions exist. Works plus materials plus a defect tail is a different promise from pure services: for services alone — design, consulting, freelancing — use the Freelance / Service Agreement; for a defective job already paid for without a contract, the Consumer Defect notice is the after-the-fact instrument.