The document outlines sections of a law regarding tenancy relationships. Key points include:
1) A tenancy relationship is created when a landholder and tenant agree to jointly cultivate the landholder's property, with the tenant having rights to continue working the land.
2) The relationship can be terminated for just causes such as cruel treatment or crime committed by the landholder, or ends upon the voluntary surrender, death or incapacity of the tenant.
3) The law establishes rights and obligations for both landholders and tenants, such as the tenant's right to construct housing on portion of the land. Landholders must provide peaceful possession of farmland and cannot require tenants to pay taxes or rent.
The document outlines sections of a law regarding tenancy relationships. Key points include:
1) A tenancy relationship is created when a landholder and tenant agree to jointly cultivate the landholder's property, with the tenant having rights to continue working the land.
2) The relationship can be terminated for just causes such as cruel treatment or crime committed by the landholder, or ends upon the voluntary surrender, death or incapacity of the tenant.
3) The law establishes rights and obligations for both landholders and tenants, such as the tenant's right to construct housing on portion of the land. Landholders must provide peaceful possession of farmland and cannot require tenants to pay taxes or rent.
The document outlines sections of a law regarding tenancy relationships. Key points include:
1) A tenancy relationship is created when a landholder and tenant agree to jointly cultivate the landholder's property, with the tenant having rights to continue working the land.
2) The relationship can be terminated for just causes such as cruel treatment or crime committed by the landholder, or ends upon the voluntary surrender, death or incapacity of the tenant.
3) The law establishes rights and obligations for both landholders and tenants, such as the tenant's right to construct housing on portion of the land. Landholders must provide peaceful possession of farmland and cannot require tenants to pay taxes or rent.
The document outlines sections of a law regarding tenancy relationships. Key points include:
1) A tenancy relationship is created when a landholder and tenant agree to jointly cultivate the landholder's property, with the tenant having rights to continue working the land.
2) The relationship can be terminated for just causes such as cruel treatment or crime committed by the landholder, or ends upon the voluntary surrender, death or incapacity of the tenant.
3) The law establishes rights and obligations for both landholders and tenants, such as the tenant's right to construct housing on portion of the land. Landholders must provide peaceful possession of farmland and cannot require tenants to pay taxes or rent.
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Section 6.
Tenancy Relationship toward the tenant or any member of his
Tenancy relationship is a juridical tie which immediate farm household. arises between a landholder and a tenant d. Commission of a crime by the landholder or once they agree, expressly or impliedly, to his representative against the tenant or any undertake jointly the cultivation of land member of his immediate farm household. belonging to the former, either under the Section 25. Rights of the Landholder share tenancy or leasehold tenancy system, 2.The landholder shall have the right to as a result of which relationship the tenant require the use of fertilizer of the kind or kinds requires the right to continue working on and shown by proven farm practices to be cultivating the land, until and unless he is adopted to the requirements of the land. dispossessed of his holdings for any of the 3. The landholder shall have the right to inspect just causes enumerated in Section fifty or the and observe the extent of compliance on the relationship is terminated in accordance with part of the tenant Section nine. with the terms and conditions of their contract Section 9. Severance of Relationship and the provisions of this Act. The tenancy relationship is extinguished by Section 26. Obligations of the Landholder the voluntary surrender of the land by, or the a. The landholder shall furnish the tenant an death or incapacity of, the tenant, but his area of not less than one thousand square heirs or the members of his immediate farm meters where the latter may construct his household may continue to work the land dwelling, raise vegetables, poultry, pigs and until the close of the agricultural year. The other animals and engage in minor expiration of the period of the contact as fixed industries, the products of which shall accrue by the parties, and the sale or alienation of to the tenant exclusively. the land do not of themselves extinguish the b. The landholder shall keep the tenant in the relationship. In the latter case, the purchaser peaceful possession and cultivation of his or transferee shall assume the rights and landholdings which are the subject matter of obligations of the former landholder in the contract. relation to the tenant. In case of death of the Section 27. Prohibitions to the Landholder landholder, his heir or heirs shall likewise 2.The landholder shall be responsible for the assume his rights and obligations. payment of taxes levied by the Government Section 11. Freedom to Contract in General upon the land which is the subject-matter of The landholder and the tenant shall be free the contract and it shall be unlawful to make to enter into any or all kinds of tenancy the tenant bear in part of all of the same, contract, as long as they are not contrary to either directly or indirectly. law, morals or public policy. Except in case 3. The landholder shall not require the tenant of fraud, error, force, intimidation or undue to bear, directly or indirectly, any part of the influence, when such contract is reduced to rent, “canon” or other consideration which writing and registered as hereinafter he, the former, may be under obligation to provided, the latter shall be conclusive pay to a third person for the use of the land. evidence of what has been agreed upon Section 28. Expenses for Seeds; Fertilizer; Pest between the contracting parties, if not and Weed Control Expenses denounced or impugned within thirty days 1. The same amount of seed or seedlings used after its registration. in the production of any crop shall be Section 22. Rights of the Tenant deducted from the gross harvest and 1. The tenant shall be free to work elsewhere returned to the party who furnished the the nature of his farm obligation warrants his same. temporary absence from his holdings. 2. The cost fertilizer and expenses for pest and 3. The tenant’s dwelling shall not, without his weed control as evidenced by sales invoices consent, be removed from the lot assigned to shall be paid out of the gross harvest and him by the landholder, unless there is a returned to the party who advanced the cost severance of the tenancy relationship and expenses. between them as provided under Section Section 29. Irrigation system nine, or unless the tenant is ejected for The cost of the construction of an irrigation cause, and only after the expiration of forty- system, including the distributory canals, five days following such severance of shall be borne exclusively by the landholder. relationship or dismissal for cause. The cost of maintenance and operation of the Section 23. Obligations for the tenant system shall, however, be borne by the 2. To inform the landholder at once of any landholder and the tenant in proportion to trespass committed by a third person upon their respective shares in the harvest. the farm. Section 30. Auxiliary Crop In case the land is planted to an auxiliary Any of the following shall be considered just crop, the tenant shall receive eighty per and reasonable cause for the tenant to terminate centum and the landholder twenty per the tenancy relationship; centum of the net produce, provided all a. Cruel, inhuman or offensive treatment on the expenses of production are borne by the part of the landholder of his representative tenant.