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.

Service of Notice in Public Land Acquisition and Tenancy in Abuja, Nigeria: A Tool for National Peace

Abstract: It is common parlance that a cordial relationship ought to be fostered and maintained by both government and the citizenry on one hand, and landlords and tenants on the other. The study examined the issues involved in service of notice by government agencies and landlords to land owners in the case of compulsory acquisition and tenants. The study employed the use of simple statistical percentages to analyse 800 questionnaires from Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) and 95 questionnaires from both Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) and Federal Ministry of Lands and Surveys. Authority (FCDA) and Federal Ministry of Lands and Surveys. The study unveiled a notorious fact that the Nation is full of unsatisfied citizens and often experiences lack of peace especially with regard to public land acquisition. It was also found that the problem associated with this exercise by Government is the improper service of notice on most occasions.

The Legal Topography of Agrarian Relations in Southern Korea under Japanese Rule

Abstract: The study explores the legal topography of landlord-tenant relations in Korea under Japanese rule with particular reference to Suncheon County in South Jeolla Province during the period 1920-1934. It inquires into the legal relations between landlord and tenant with regard to the forms of tenancy contract, security of tenure, rent payment and renegotiation, and the control of the labor process. It highlights, on the one hand, gaps in rules and options in action in the functioning of the law. The study throws light on situations where multiple rules were available for invocation and application, choice between which involved conflicts between differing group interests. On the other hand, it brings into relief the structural limitations of the choice of action. It shows how the law suppressed claims that might have disrupted landlordism in a fundamental way. By bringing the two aspects together, this study attempts a nuanced interpretation of the social implications of the law and legal system of Korea under Japanese rule.

Land Ownership Inequality and Rural Factor Markets in Turkey. A Study for Critically Evaluating Market Friendly Reforms the Economics of the Middle East Series

Abstract: FATMA GUL UNAL, Land Ownership Inequality and Rural Factor Markets in Turkey. A Study for Critically Evaluating Market Friendly Reforms The Economics of the Middle East Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Pp. 206, $ 100.00 clothThis quite short and neatly executed study sheds useful light on the structural situation of Turkish agriculture in a comparative, general and macro-economic perspective. Unal is known for her analysis "Small is Beautiful: Evidence of Inverse Size-Yield Relationship in Rural Turkey" (2006), which corresponds roughly to the fourth chapter of this well-balanced book of five chapters. A comprehensive introduction "Why Agriculture?" sets the background of the research question, which mainly is the relationship between agrarian inequality and rural factor markets (pp. 1-38). The second chapter, "A portrait of Turkish Agriculture: Inequality and Its Discontents" (pp. 39-62), gives a panoramic view-on the national and regional scales-of Turkish agriculture through land, labor, capital and households indicators. "Sharecropping or Fixed-Rent Tenancy" (pp. 63-94) then takes up a problematic addressed many years ago by Caglar Keyder (1983) but without presenting convincing new perspectives due to its lack of both updated data and field surveys. The fourth chapter, "Testing for Inverse Size-Yield Relationship in Turkish Agriculture" (pp. 95-127), echoes strictly the paper issued in 2006 and reveals the main thesis of the book: contrary to the claims of international bodies like FAO and OECD, in Turkey, ".... land fragmentation seems to be impacting land productivity positively..." (p. 122). Finally, "Market Failure and Land Concentration in Turkey" (pp. 129-152) emphasizes the negative effects of structural inequalities, in terms of owned-land distribution, on rural factor markets. The long conclusion (pp. 152-178) sums up the main findings and draws comparisons with the "emerging countries" of China, India, Tunisia, Egypt and Pakistan. The critical dimension of the book is salient and quite convincing: the so-called market friendly policies centered on big-production units cannot successfully address the main concerns of Turkish agriculture, which still employs 30 percent of the active population, because they neglect the potential dynamism of small-size farms.Apart from some regrettable mistakes (e.g., on p. 29, on the development of "AKP" contraction), one of the major critiques we can address to this book is that the data it uses, such as the 2002 "QSH" World Bank Statistics (p. 47), are unfortunately quiet old to apply to the current situation and the new challenges faced by Turkish agriculture. …