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defining what the period should be for any locality or any class of 

 cases, so that it may be clearly known, without fear of mistake or 

 danger of retractation and change of view, by every landowner or 

 tenant who executes a permanent improvement on the land, whether 

 he is entitled to the entire profits arising from it, or to a part, for 

 ever, or for a term of years. 



Right of tenants to make improvements to be 



affirmed. 



7. We think also that more distinct legal provision is required to 

 secure that every occupancy tenant may effect in the land he occupies 

 material improvements of the kind contemplated in Act 26 of 

 1871 without requiring him to obtain the sanction of his landlord, 

 and without endangering the security of his tenure. Such a right 

 has nowhere been authoritatively declared by the law, and decisions 

 of the Courts have in some instances negatived, and in others ques- 

 tioned, its existence. Further, every tenant who is ousted by his 

 landlord for failure to pay rent or other causes should obtain com- 

 pensation for unexhausted improvements. A clause providing for 

 the latter case exists now in the Rent Law of the North-Western 

 Provinces, but does not appear to exist in. the Punjab, Oudh, Bengal, 

 or the Central Provinces. 



