562 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

TENANTS FOR YEARS OR LESS OR AT WILL.

844. Where any lands or tenements in the City of Balti-
more are held from year to year, the tenancy shall be terminated
if the lessor give to the tenant ninety days' notice before the
end of the year.

845. If any land be held in said City under a lease for a
month, or any less period than a year, and the tenant continues
to occupy under such lease after its expiration, he shall be
deemed a tenant for such period as the premises were originally
leased to him, and so from such period to such period; and if
his landlord give him thirty days' notice before the termination
of any period of his tenancy, it shall terminate such tenancy.

846. If lands or tenements be held in said City by tenancy
at will, at sufferance or pur autre vie, thirty days' notice by the
landlord or reversioner to the tenant or occupant shall termi-
nate such tenancy at the expiration of thirty days.

847. Any of the tenancies mentioned in the three preceding
sections may be terminated by the tenant's giving notice to the
landlord thirty days previous to the end of the year, or other
period for which he holds the same.

848. The notice required by the preceding sections shall be
in writing and served on the tenant, or left at his place of abode
or business, or served on his agent or servant, or served on any
occupant of the premises; and if there be no person living on
the premises the same may be served by being set up on a con-
spicuous part of the premises.

849. Such notice shall be sufficient in form if it contains a
request by the landlord to the tenant to leave the premises, or
if it state the intention of the tenant to leave the same, and it
need not state the time when the tenant is requested to leave the
same, or when the tenant intends to do so.