Bare Act
The Travancore-Cochin Compensation for Tenants Improvements Act, 1956
The Travancore-Cochin Compensation for Tenants Improvements Act, 1956 regulates the financial compensation due to tenants when they are evicted from land in the State of Travancore-Cochin. It applies to lessees, sub-lessees, mortgagees, and good-faith cultivators who make valuable additions to a property, such as constructing buildings, digging wells, reclaiming land for farming, or planting useful trees. The law ensures that landlords cannot evict tenants without paying them fair value for these enhancements, calculated using court standards and government tables. This legislation matters because it protects agricultural occupiers from exploitation, encouraging property investment while ensuring equitable treatment upon eviction.
- 0. Preamble
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. What are presumed to be improvements
- 4. Tenant entitled to compensation for improvements
- 5. Decree in eviction to be conditional on payment of compensation
- 6. Tenant's right to remove buildings, works or trees deemed not improvements
- 7. Improvement producing an increase in the value of the annual net produce
- 8. Trees or plants spontaneously grown
- 9. Other kinds of improvements
- 10. Value of improvement to be ascertained in the uay most (avourffbl.c to the tenant
- 11. Improvement consisting in protectimJ and maint~nance of trees and plarrts
- 12. Power to frame tables of ma.-rimum and minimum rates of compensatwn
- 13. Power to prepare tables of prices of produce, etc
- 14. Values h~w ~certained when no table has been prepared or !he presumptwn ~s rcbutte~
- 15. Tables to be publi8k6d
- 16. Compensation when area. is overplanted
- 17. Contracts affe«-'ting compensation for improvements to be invalid
- 18. Repeal
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