The learned counsel for the plaintiff respondent placed strong reliance upon the following observations of the Lord Chancellor in the case of Abbot vs The Minister for Lands (1): "They think that the mere right (assuming it to (1) ,431. 65 be properly so called)existing in the members of the community or any class of them to take advantage of an enactment, without any act done by an individual towards availing himself of that right, cannot properly be deemed a "right accrued" within the meaning of the enactment." The contention is that in order that the defendants appellants could claim the status of 'protected tenants ' as a right accrued under the Act of 1939, they should have taken certain steps to enforce that right and got the relevant authorities to pronounce upon those rights, and as no such steps had admittedly been taken by the appellants, they could not claim that they had a 'right accrued ' to them as claimed.