Cultivating or Planting Trees in a Usurped Land
Issue No. 2187- If a person usurps a piece of land and cultivates or plants trees in it, the produce of farming and the trees and their fruits are his own property. However, he (the usurper) should pay rent to the owner of the land for the period that the crop and the trees remained on his land. However, if the owner does not permit the crops and the trees remaining on his land, the usurper of the land should pull them out immediately even if he may suffer consequent loss and should also make up for the damage done to the land [if any] by paying the difference in value. Moreover, he cannot compel the owner of the land to sell it or lease it out to him, and the owner of the land too cannot compel him to sell the trees or crops to him.
