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The Malabar Tenancy Act, 1929

The Malabar Tenancy Act, 1929

Civil192957 sections

This Act regulates the relations between landlords and tenants in the Malabar area, including the Gudalur taluk now in Tamil Nadu. It fixes the fair rent payable for wet lands, dry lands, garden lands and lands within municipalities, and how produce is calculated for double-crop lands.

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  1. 1. Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 2. Exemptions
  3. 3. Definitions
  4. 4. Interpretation clause
  5. 5. Fair rent of dry lands converted into wet by tenant's labour
  6. 6. Fair rent of other wet lands
  7. 7. Fair rent of wet lands in Wynaad and Gudalur taluks
  8. 8. Calculation of produce of double-crop wet lands
  9. 9. Fair rent of garden lands
  10. 10. Fair rent of dry lands
  11. 11. Fair rent of lands within municipality or cantonment limits
  12. 12. Fair rent of wet land not used by tenant as such
  13. 13. Fair rent of protected ulkudis
  14. 14. Exclusion of certain lands from liability to fair rent
  15. 15. Rent Courts
  16. 16. Determination of fair rent by Rent Court
  17. 17. Appeals against orders of Rent Courts
  18. 18. Mode of payment of fair rent
  19. 19. Interest on arrear of fair rent
  20. 20. Revision of fair rent
  21. 21. Right of certain classes of tenants to fixity of tenure
  22. 22. Right to prove real nature of transaction
  23. 23. Grounds for eviction of cultivating verumpattamdar
  24. 24. Tenant's right to sue for restoration of possession of land in certain cases
  25. 25. Grounds for eviction of customary verumpattamdar, kuzhikanamdar, kanam-kuzhikanamdar or kanamdar
  26. 26. Tenant's right to sue for restoration of possession of land in certain cases
  27. 27. Cultivating tenants, etc., to pay fair rent
  28. 28. Liability for revenue as between landlord and cultivating tenant
  29. 29. Deduction from rent
  30. 30. Remission of rent consequent on remission of assessment
  31. 31. Invalidity of claim for dues other than fair rent
  32. 32. Reduction in the rent payable by intermediaries
  33. 33. Tenant's right to purchase the rights of his immediate landlord in certain cases
  34. 34. Kudiyiruppu-holder's right to purchase his landlord's rights in certain cases
  35. 35. Landlord's right to sue for possession of kudiyiruppu in certain cases
  36. 36. Landlord's rights in relation to protected ulkudi
  37. 37. Tenant's rights to be heritable and alienable
  38. 38. Tenant's right to avail himself of the provisions of Chapter III in certain cases
  39. 39. Arrears of michavaram and rent to be a first charge on holding after revenue
  40. 40. Right of holder of decree for eviction of kuzhikanamdar or kanam-kuzhikanamdar to apply for sale of holding
  41. 41. Limitation for suits for restoration under sections 24 and 26
  42. 42. Surrender of holdings
  43. 43. Rights of a cultivating tenant on the extinction of landlord's rights
  44. 44. Applicability of Act to redeemed kanamdar, etc
  45. 45. Contents of lease, kanam, kanam-kuzhikanam or kuzhikanam deeds
  46. 46. Tenant's right to obtain receipts and forms of such receipts
  47. 47. Stamp and registration fees to be paid by the tenant
  48. 48. Improvements Act to apply to evictions under the Act
  49. 49. Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, to apply to proceedings under Act
  50. 50. Collector to publish list of prices
  51. 51. Place of delivery of rent payable in kind
  52. 52. Government's power to require waste or forest lands to be leased
  53. 53. Surrender deeds executed by tenants previously not to affect their rights in certain cases
  54. 54. [Omitted]
  55. 55. [Omitted]
  56. 56. Savings
  57. 57. Power to make rules

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