Leasehold estate

About: Leasehold estate is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1589 publications have been published within this topic receiving 21480 citations. The topic is also known as: leasehold & tenancy.

Farm Business Income across Land-size Classes and Land Tenure Status: A Field Study in Assam Plains

Abstract: Using farm level data from the plains of Assam, the paper has estimated farm business income across different land-size classes and land tenure status. The analysis has been carried out at the aggregate level as well as at disaggregate level for three specific crops, viz. winter paddy, summer paddy and winter vegetables. It has been found that sharecropping and fixed rent tenancy contracts have a negative and significant impact on farm business income. The lower level of farm business income on leased-in land, especially under sharecropping, can be attributed to payment of a significant amount as rent, which is higher than even that stipulated in the tenancy law. Accordingly, certain reforms in the existing tenancy law have been suggested. The study has suggested a shift in the cropping pattern from the presently predominant winter paddy to more remunerative crops such as vegetables, which is also desired for a healthy transition of Assam agriculture from subsistence cultivation to a profitable venture.

Inequality and Radical Land Reform: Some Notes from West Bengal

Abstract: THIS ESSAY DISCUSSES some aspects of the problem of land reform in conditions of great inequality almost total in scope, encompassing economic, social, ritual, coercive and political spheres, such as those prevailing in the relations between poorer peasants and landlords in West Bengal. A turbulent issue in West Bangal politics is the survival of bargadar (sharecroppers) as bargadar. The issue, in the first place, is a direct consequence of attempts to achieve radical land reform in an unequal society. The West Bengal Land Reform (Amendment) Act of 1970 was radical enough to threaten the interests of the landlords but wholly ineffectual in the execution, thereby exposing the bargadar to fierce retaliation by the landlords. I examine the implementation and consequences of the Act, and argue, first, that a reduction in political inequality is an indispensable precondition for such reform to be effective, and second, that in certain circumstances radical reform can end up as a half measure and a detriment to the interests of the peasants, in this case the bargadar. The concept of land reform includes at least three different sectors in agrarian structure: land tenure (ownership or title to land); pattern of cultivation (e.g., market/subsistence); and terms of holding and scale of operation (e.g., large scale/small scale, fixed share/fixed amount as rent).' The Act of 1970, together with its later amendments, sought to modify both tenure and the terms of tenancy. The power to evict a

The Nature of Waqf Land and Properties Development in Muslim Countries

Abstract: This chapter examines the nature of waqf land and properties development and reviews the role of institutions in waqf land and properties development in Muslim countries. The study shows that the development of waqf land faces many problems and challenges among others such as lack of financial resources, undeveloped and unproductive waqf land, loopholes in the legal framework, unregistered waqf land, waqf on leasehold land, and land classified as heritage. Accordingly, the potential contribution of these institutions hinges on improving its efficiency. Thus, this study proposes a new framework that Awqaf institutions in Muslim countries should consider undertaking waqf land development through the issuance of sukuk and developing cash waqf fund.

The state of tenure: Extending owner occupation on Wearside

Abstract: This thesis considers the changing social relations of tenure in Britain as state interventions increasingly sponsor home ownership as the norm for working-class family households. These intervention are highlighted through four case studies of low-cost ownership on Nearside, illustrating different facets of the extension of ownership. The early chapters discuss orthodox Marxist, Weberian and Feminist accounts of tenure, and indicate that the material and ideological realities associated with different tenure forms need to be placed in an historical context. Further, it is suggested that changes in tenure relations can best be understood by employing the idea of a housing cohort. This enables the analyst to explore tenure in the context of households' relationships to changing local housing and labour markets. It highlights the materiality of space and time in constraining tenure experience. The empirical chapters that follow explore working-class housing in Sunderland within this framework. After an historical account of the linkages between housing markets and labour markets in the area, two locales are examined in detail to reveal the changing patterns of tenure in the private sector in the early part of the twentieth century. This examination highlights the mutability of tenure forms within the private sector. The following four chapters report on survey work undertaken in order to explore the changing meanings of tenure as the drive to recommodification extended ownership to new kinds of households. The experience of different kinds of ownership (outright ownership, mortgage holding, equity sharing) in four different locales (ex-council estates, older terrace housing, new- build inner city locations, and a suburban new build scheme) enables comparisons to be made between the variable impacts of different kinds of marginal ownership on Wearside. The emerging contradictions in each of the four locales are outlined, and the interconnected nature of council tenancy and ownership stressed. Finally, an attempt is made to explore further the usefulness of a cohort analysis in understanding the restructuring of tenure relations.