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the norrland laws.
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whether the land is suitable for farming and whether the farming will be of
permanent value to the estate.
The compensation may not be fixed higher than an amount corresponding to
the expense necessary for carrying out the work, and shall be equal to the
amount by which the estate has gained in value by the work at the time when
the tenant gives up possession.
An inspection of the farm may also be held during the running of the lease,
partly for the purpose of seeing if the landlord has carried out the repairs, etc.,
enjoined on him in order to make good the defects that may have existed at the
inspection held when the tenant took possession, and also to see whether such
work, or other work voluntarily undertaken by the landlord, has been properly
carried out.
If there is not sufficient pasture on the farm for the cattle and horses which
can be fed there during the winter, and if the farm form part of a larger estate
of the landlord’s, the tenant shall obtain the necessary pasturage in the woods
or outfield belonging to the estate.
The tenant has the right to obtain wood for house-fuel and the timber
necessary for repairs, fences, the short wooden fences used in Sweden for drying hay,
ditching, and implements. Should the woods on the tenant’s farm, or on the
home-estate of which the farm forms part, during the period of tenancy have
been so diminished, in consequence of the action of the landlord, that the tenant
is unable to obtain from the said woods all the timber or forest-products to which
he is entitled, the landlord is obliged to make good in some suitable way what
is wanting in this respect. Otherwise the tenant shall not take timber, etc.,
from the landlord’s woods, unless a special agreement has been made in the lease.
The landlord has the right to give the tenant notice to return the lease if,
in general, the tenant has been guilty of the same faults and neglect as those
mentioned in the general law of tenant right. In addition, however, there is
another circumstance that may lead to the confiscation of the lease, viz., if the
tenant leads, or allows others to lead, a wicked and licentious life, such as may
tend to give the estate a bad reputation.
Finally, it should be observed that the Governor of the län can suspend the
action of this law or of any certain part of it, should there exist any special
circumstances making such a course necessary.
Remark. For particulars concerning agricultural labourers, see the
article Labour Conditions and Workmen’s Wages (Part I).
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