Section 10. No tenant shall, in the absence of an agreement or decree of Court to the contrary effect, be held l

CHAPTER III. OF RENT. 1.—Enhancement. 10. No tenant shall, in the absence of an agreement or decree of Court to the contrary effect, be held liable, in a suit for arrears of rent in respect of any land, to pay rent exceeding in amount the rent payable by him in respect of such land for the last preceding agricultural year, unless a decree for the enhancement of the rent has been made as hereinafter provided. The said Lieutenant Governor shall have power, from time to time, by notification in the official Gazette, to declare for all or any of the districts under his government the day on which the agricultural year shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to commence.