Clause (6) of section 2 of the Act defines landlord thus : "Landlord" includes the person who is receiving or is entitled to receive the rent of a building, whether on his own account .or on behalf of another or on behalf of himself and others or as an agent, trustee, executor, administrator, receiver or ' .,guardian or who would so receive the rent or be entitled to receive the rent, if the building were let to a tenant;" Clause 8, in so far as it is relevant, defines tenant as follows "tenant" means any person by whom or on whose account rent is payable for a building and includes the surviving spouse, or any son, or daughter, or the legal representative of a deceased tenant who had been living with the tenant in the building as a member of the tenant 's family up to the death of the tenant and a person continuing in possession after the termination of the tenancy in his favour.