This Act makes rules relative to contracts of tenancy of “small holdings” i.e. any parcel of land intended for cultivation or pasturage consisting of not less than one acre nor more than ten acres held under a contract of tenancy. The Act also makes provision for the establishment of Valuation Boards.The Act establishes conditions and criteria for tenancy contracts between landlords and tenants of agricultural small holdings. No crop-sharing clauses may be included in the tenancy contract.

Land is the public property and it shall not be liable to sale, exchange, donation, mortgage except for cases envisaged by the national legislation. Legal persons can manage land parcels on condition of land usufruct, permanent use, temporary use, and lease, while natural persons can manage land parcels on condition of lifelong hereditary land tenure, temporary land tenure and lease. Sublease of the plots of land conceded on lease shall be prohibited.

This Law sets forth legal grounds for setting up, functioning, reorganization and liquidation of peasant farms, regulates the rights and the duties thereof, and also the interrelations with other legal and natural persons.

The Act amends several sections of the Agrarian Services Act 1979, concerning inter alia the procedure of eviction of paddy lands, the nomination of successors to the rights of tenant cultivators, the effects of transfer of rights of tenant cultivators, the payment and recovery of rent, the Agrarian Services Committees, the Cultivation Officers, the purposes for which paddy land may be used.The following new sections are inserted: (a) 5A and 5B on exemption of paddy lands; (b) 12A on the sale of paddy lands and tenancy rights; (c) 16A on willful neglect of cultivation by the tenant cultivat

The amendments are made to several sections of the Land Ordinance concerning inter alia the following matters: insertion of the definition of "foreshore"; unlawful occupation of land; alienation of State land; definition of customary rights; land dealings with natives; reserved use rights; implied conditions in titles; revision of rent; sub-division of titles; appeal; revision by the Director of decisions given by the Collector of Land Revenue or Assistant Collectors; cultivation of land; use of land for agricultural purposes; applications for State land; information to be given to the Coll

This Act is divided into 13 Parts as follows: Indefeasible certificates of title (1); Bringing lands under Act (2); Titles to Land Assurance Fund (3); Transfer and transmission of land (4); Land tax, mortgages and incumbrances and the sale of incumbered land (Land tax, Mortgages, Incumbrances, Equitable mortgages, Transfer and discharge of mortgages and incumbrances, Sale of incumbered lands or estates, Crop advance warrants) (5); Judgments (6); Caveats (7); Registration and confirmation of qualified and possessory titles (8); Powers and duties of registrars of title and mode of reviewing t

This Act deals with the administration and disposal of State lands which are defined as all lands other than forest reserves vested in the State, including all lands which have been escheated to the State or may be acquired by the State. A Director of Surveys and Commissioner of Lands shall be appointed to implement this Act. The Act provides for, inter alia, the sale, lease, etc. of State lands; accounting procedures; surveys; penalties for trespass and other offences; legal and administrative matters relating to the purchase of State lands.

This Act prescribes matters concerning court proceedings required for changes to be made to land lease terms and prescribes special provisions concerning the duration and effect of land lease rights and of building lease contracts.

This Act establishes periods of limitation and other limitations for bringing actions of the various classes mentioned in the Act. Section 42 extends the applicability of the Act also to arbitration. Actions include various actions in respect of land: actions to recover land by the Crown or any person and rent; action to recover money secured by a mortgage or charge or to recover proceeds of the sale of land; and actions in respect of trust property or the personal estate of deceased persons and actions for an account.

This Act amends provisions of the principal Act with the scope of bringing about improvement of the offer of arable land including land suitable for fast growing timber forestry. Provisions deal with revision of lease rates, alienation of land within 10 years after acquisition with preferential rights by former leaseholders, public lease, special short-term lease contracts, protection of leaseholders against strict terms imposed by landlords and other connected matters. (5 articles)

Under this statute people are permitted to lease land and to bequeath its use to their heirs in perpetuity. Ownership of land is delegated to local soviets, which fix the prices for land rentals. While heritable land can be worked as property, it cannot be sold, granted or mortgaged. The drafting of more detailed rules on land tenure is delegated to the Union republics, within the framework laid down by the statute. In practice, farmers will henceforth be free to choose between being collective farm members or individual farmers.

This Act provides the general framework for principles regulating land relations in the USSR and the Union Republics. Union and autonomous Republics are to promulgate more detailed legislation within this framework. This Act excludes relations regarding mining, forestry, water and the protection of flora, fauna and the atmosphere. The Act is directed towards the creation of conditions for the rational use and protection of land, the regeneration of soil fertility, the preservation and improvement of the natural environment, and the equal development of all forms of economy.