2 Rights and Obligations of Landlords and Tenants

The registered mohi (the reform beneficiary) — rights:1. Security of tenure: eviction only on statutory grounds (non-payment, personal cultivation's statutory claim, misuse) through the land-reform machinery — not the landlord's will;2. The recorded tenancy's property character: the joint-ownership certificate regime (the 1997-era reforms — the registered tenant recorded as co-owner with the landholder in defined proportions, with the buy-out/division options: the tenant purchasing the landholder's share or vice versa);3. Fair rent/production shares (the regulated division of the crop);4. The tenant's own transfer rights (the tenancy-right's devolution and limited transfer under the Act's scheme);5. Compensation for improvements on surrender.Landlord (landholder) — rights: the rent/share; the registered status (the certificate's counterpart entry); the statutory grounds of resumption (personal cultivation within the ceiling); the buy-out option; the land's ultimate title where the tenancy not converted.Mutual obligations: the tenant — to cultivate, pay the share/rent, preserve the land (no degradation, no subletting contrary to law); the landlord — not to evict save by process, not to interfere with the tenant's cultivation, to contribute the statutory shares of inputs where the custom shares outputs; both — to keep the records current (the tenancy registration's updates).The unresolved (the analytical paragraph): the unregistered tenants — the majority never recorded in the brief registration windows — remain contractual/customary cultivators without the Act's shield: the informal share-cropping economy's exposure…