CHANGES IN OUDH t>9 



lease or occupancy rights, which has monetary value. Look- 

 ing at the matter from the broadest point of view, we see that 

 so long as the law and prevailing practice secure to each 

 party the respective property in material improvements or in 

 rights which that party has created, the interest of the country 

 is served best by having the greatest flexibility in the 

 permissible conditions of contract and legal right as between 

 the two parties. 



Imtncdiale Chanjifs in Oudli 



The existing law in Oudli is a system of automatic 

 leases with a restricted rate of enhancement of rent. When 

 waste land is being let for the first time, or land which has 

 been out of cultivation, or otherwise in the landlord's 

 possession, is let to a tenant, the two parties are free to 

 agree upon any rental ; but excepting on his sir land 

 the landlord is obliged tp let on a lease for not less than 

 seven years. The tenant can be ejected by order of the 

 Court at any time for arrears of rent, but otherwise only 

 by a notice under Section 55 served through the Court 

 twelve months before the expiration of the lease. At the 

 expiration of seven years the landlord may re-let the land 

 for another seven years to the same tenant, but the rent 

 may not be enhanced by more than one anna in the rupee. 

 If the tenant has been ejected the land cannot be let to 

 another tenant at any rent higher by more than one anna 

 in the rupee than the rent paid by the previous tenant. If 

 the letter of the law be strictly observed, therefore, it is 

 impossible for the landlord to enhance his rent by more 

 than one anna in the rupee in seven years (that is 0'86 per 

 cent per annum) however much he changes his tenants. The 

 provision that the rent cannot be enhanced more for a new 

 tenant than for re-letting to an old tenant was inserted 

 in order to discourage ejectments being made tor the pur- 

 pose of obtaining enhancements of rent. 



