Showing papers on "Leasehold estate published in 1968"

Land Tenure in Thailand

Abstract: Because of the preconception that Thailand's rural society is predominated by owner-cultivators and has no serious land problem,' investigation has seldom been done on Thailand's land system. But with issues of tenancy coming to the fore recently in Central Thailand,2 attention is now being paid both at home and abroad to the land system. Although Thailand's tenant problem itself is not yet very serious, its social context is worthy of closer study. Comprehensive research should be done on the kinship structure, the inheritance of land, the customary laws on land ownership, the community formation process, and agricultural techniques in relation to social mobility. The problem of land tenure should be studied on a broader basis, not only from the viewpoint of rural social structure but from that of the relationship of land tenure to social mobility and the modernization of the customary laws. The legal pattern of Thailand's land tenure is a product of long historical process. The structure of the current land law indicates the influence of two factors: (1) the customary law concept (latti-thamniam) on land possession, abided by for generations, and (2) the modernization of land law launched at the beginning of the 20th century. Although the customary law appears to have adjusted to the modern one, both often conflict with the farmers' concepts. Theoretically, all land was supposed to belong to the king, the farmers being allowed to acquire land on the condition that they exercised de facto occupancy and cultivation. The de facto occupancy accompanied by cultivation gave rise to the right to own land, which in turn led to the right to legal protection. Such a custom had long been in practice, but in 1901 King Rama V introduced the modern idea of land ownership, legally distinguishing factual occupancy from ownership, and he created a system in which no protection is given to occupancy but only to ownership. This led to a confusion in Thailand's land tenure system. In 1936 a more flexible land law was legislated, and since then the system has become stabilized. The current land law, kotmaai thiidin, phoo. soo. 2497, which was legislated in 1954, adheres in its essentials to the ideas of the 1936 law, recognizing

Urban Housing Estates in the Eighteenth Century

Abstract: This paper examines the supply of building land by estate owners in the eighteenth century, based particularly on estate records and other contemporary sources for about fifteen British towns. While the rise in the value of land on its conversion from agricultural use into building sites was an obvious incentive to estate owners, it was offset in part by the high initial cost of providing the basic amenities, and the frequent delay in obtaining a substantial return on this outlay. In England and Wales land was either sold, or conveyed on building lease, the latter being preferred by the large private owners and corporations, and by 1800 ninety-nine years was becoming an increasingly common term. In the case of leasehold developments landlords preferred that builders should erect better-class rather than artisan dwellings, although the demand for the former was limited apart from London, Edinburgh and Bath. Their main means of controlling development lay in the covenants inserted in the leases, which varie...

Leasehold reform act 1967

Abstract: An Act to enable tenants of houses held on long leases at low rents to acquire the freehold or an extended lease; to apply the Rent Acts to premises held on long leases at a rackrent, and to bring the operation of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 into conformity with the Rent Acts as so amended; to make other changes in the law in relation to premises held on long leases, including amendments of the Places of Worship (Enfranchisement) Act 1920; and for purposes connected therewith. [27th October 1967]