Briefing Note Pakistan Land Rights - Oxfam Blogs

GLOSSARY OF TERMSTenancy Act the Act governing the tenantlandlord relationship. Atenant is a person who holds land under another person and is liableto pay rent for the land. The tenant of a landlord operates under onelease or one set of conditions. The aim of this law is to accommodatelandless people and to provide cover and support them againstlandowners and landlords.Residential security secure ownership or tenant rights to land beingused for the purpose of housing/shelter;; also known as housingrights.Land security secure ownership or tenant rights to land being usedfor the purpose of housing/shelter or agricultural purposes.Collective entitlements collective historical rights to land that acommunity has been residing on for several years (usually decades orcenturies).Sharecropping is a system of agriculture whereby a landownerallows a tenant farmer to use the land in return for a share of the cropproduced on the land. riverine areas where property rights are poorlydefined. non-riverine area;; settled ar(embankment or dyke where people usually have permanent houses. is a proxy land title. It is most frequently used by malerelatives (husbands, fathers, sons, brothers) to assert effectiveownership of property which 7