The Malabar Compensation for Tenants Improvements Act, 1899
The Malabar Compensation for Tenants Improvements Act, 1899
The Malabar Compensation for Tenants Improvements Act, 1899 protects tenants by ensuring they receive fair compensation for property improvements when facing eviction. It applies to tenants, including renters, sub-renters, and mortgagees in possession, in specific areas of Tamil Nadu next to the historical Malabar district. The law regulates how courts value enhancements like buildings, water wells, and planted trees, ensuring tenants get paid for their labor and investments. This matters because it prevents landowners from unfairly reclaiming land and benefiting from a tenant’s hard work without paying for it, allowing tenants to remain in possession until they are fully compensated.
- 1. Short title
- 2. Repeal of Act I of 1887
- 3. Interpretation clause
- 4. What works to be improvements
- 5. Tenant entitled to compensation on ejectment
- 6. Suit in ejectment to be decreed; amount of compensation ascertained and set-off by court; difference between it and the amount, if any, adjudged to the plaintiff from the defendant
- 7. Tenant may remove buildings, etc., deemed not improvements within time to be fixed
- 8. Power to make rules for appointment of assessors, etc.
- 9. Improvement making an increase in the annual net produce
- 10. Improvement consisting of timber trees or of other useful trees or plants spontaneously grown during the period of the tenancy or sown or planted by tenant
- 11. Other kinds of improvements
- 12. Value of improvement to be ascertained in the way most favourable to the tenant.
- 13. Improvement consisting in the protection and maintenance of trees and plants not sown or planted by tenants and of trees and plants spontaneously grown prior to tenancy.
- 14. Power to frame tables of maximum and minimum rates of compensation.
- 15. Power to prepare tables showing the cost of cultivating paddy, protecting, planting, and maintaining trees and plants.
- 16. Value to be ascertained where no table has been prepared or the correctness of the price mentioned in the table is disputed.
- 17. Publication of tables
- 18. Compensation may be refused if trees have been overplanted.
- 19. Contracts effecting tenant's right to improvements.
- 20. Saving clause
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