noun
tenant rights; cultivation rights
Legal term referring to the rights of a tenant farmer to cultivate land, especially under historical Japanese agricultural law.
小作権は、農地改革以前の地主と小作人の関係で重要な概念だった。
Tenant rights were an important concept in the relationship between landlords and tenant farmers before the agricultural land reform.
地主 is the landowner who grants cultivation rights; 小作権 is the right held by the tenant.
Compound of 小作 (kosaku, 'tenant farming') and 権 (ken, 'right'). The term is primarily associated with pre-WWII Japanese agricultural law.