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.

A lost source for the rising of 1536 in north-west England.

Abstract: This paper prints with commentary extracts from a number of previously unknown documents concerning the rising of 1536 in north-west England. They are contained a late seventeenth-century treatise on tenant right (the form of customary tenancy prevalent in parts of northern England) attributed to Thomas Denton (1637–98). There are indications that this text borrows from an earlier lost treatise, possibly by William Lord Howard of Naworth, and it is argued that the extracts are probably from the same body of material then in the Cottonian Library as was drawn on by Thomas Masters in his notes for Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, published in 1985. Whilst the documents deepen our understanding of the movement in a number of ways, their major contribution is to confirm the opinion of earlier writers that the rising was characterised by a marked hostility to landlords. Extracts are given from two previously unknown inquests into the ills of the commonwealth, one of which complains about the practice of lords evicting tenants and calls on the tenants to band together to resist: the other rejects the payment of entry fines and performance of boon days.

The Impact of Changing Agricultural Technology on Land Tenancy in Preindustrial China: Evidence from Confucius's Manors (1759-1901)

Abstract: During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, fixed-rent tenancy gradually replaced sharecropping as the dominant form of land tenancy in China. This paper posits that the shift in land tenancy was generated by the technological movement from annual cropping to multiple cropping. To test the hypothesis we exploit a unique dataset gathered from the rent collection archives of Confucius's Lineage in the Qing Dynasty. We estimate the effect of the adoption of wheat-soybean double cropping on the choice of tenancy contract, share contract versus fixed-rent contract. We find that double cropped plots were 30% more likely to be managed under fixed-rent contracts than annually cropped plots. Our findings are consistent with the implications of the factor imperfections theory. The adoption of double cropping made farming more complex and placed greater demands on managerial abilities of tenants. In the absence of a factor market for managerial ability, optimal tenancy contract had adapted to provide tenants with a greater incentive to supply managerial inputs than had been the case in sharecropping arrangements.