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Conflicts Between Landlord and Tenant

Neil Harl (April, 2013)

Summary

In recent years, higher land values and higher cash rents coupled with the economic stress of drought and other weather adversities have combined to underscore the importance of the law as one of the major ways of assuring that land tracts are not mismanaged for the short-term bene?t of the tenant. Disputes over the removal of corn stalks from the rented land by a cash rent tenant represent just one of the numerous ways a tenant’s interest may be more in the short-term bene?ts rather than in the long-term productivity of the land. On the other hand, the law has continually demonstrated that the restraints imposed on tenants should not place a tenant in an economic straitjacket, either.