Mere agreement of sale will not terminate the landlord tenant relationship and the liability of the tenant to continue to pay the rent, unless there are specific recitals to the contrary in the agreement of sale.

B.Kuppulal vs. D.Sagunthala and another

 (1987)1 MLJ 242; 

LNIND 1986 Mad 399 : 100 LW 577, 

certain excerpts from it would run thus at p. 246 of MLJ:

''10. Mere agreement of sale will not terminate the landlord tenant relationship and the liability of the tenant to continue to pay the rent, unless there are specific recitals to the contrary in the agreement of sale.