Section 5. Definitions of Terms. —
As used in this Act:
A tenant shall mean a person who, himself and with the aid available from within his immediate farm household, cultivates the land belonging to, or possessed by, another, with the latter's consent for purposes of production, sharing the produce with the landholder under the share tenancy system, or paying to the landholder a price certain or ascertainable in produce or in money or both, under the leasehold tenancy system.
A landholder shall mean a person, natural or juridical, who, either as owner, lessee, usufructuary, or legal possessor, lets or grants to another the use or cultivation of his land for a consideration either in shares under the share tenancy system, or a price certain or ascertainable under the leasehold tenancy system.
Agricultural year is the period of time necessary for the raising of seasonal agricultural products, including the preparation of the land, and the sowing, planting and harvesting of the crop: Provided, however, That in the case of coconuts, citrus, coffee, ramie, and other crops where more than one harvest is obtained from one planting, the words "agricultural year" shall mean the period of time from the preparation of land to the first harvest and thereafter from harvest to harvest. In both cases, the period of time may be shorter or longer than a calendar year.
Farm implements include hand tools or machines ordinarily employed in a farm enterprise.
Work animals include animals ordinarily employed in a farm enterprise. The words include carabaos, horses, bullocks, etc.
Pulling of the seedlings is a phase of farm work in which seedlings are uprooted from the seed beds immediately before transplanting.
Final harrowing in the last stage in pulverizing the soil into fine particles in readying the field for the transplanting of the seedlings.
Reaping is the cutting of rice stalks.
Harvesting shall mean the gathering of the fruits or produce of a crop other than rice.
Piling into small stacks used as a term in rice share tenancy shall mean the piling into several small stacks within the tenant's holdings of reaped and bundled stalks containing the grain, preparatory to their transportation to the place designated for their threshing.
Piling into big stacks used as a term in rice share tenancy shall mean the piling into one huge stack of the several small stacks of reaped and bundled stalks containing grain, which constitute the entire harvest of the tenant from his holdings, preparatory to threshing.
Proven farm practices include those sound farming practices which have attained general acceptance through usage or are officially recommended by the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Fair rental value is an amount of money not in excess of allowable depreciation plus six per cent interest per annum on the investment computed at its market value: Provided, however, That the fair rental value for the work animal or animals and farm implements required to produce the crop shall not exceed five per cent of the gross harvest for the animal or animals and five per cent for implements: And, provided, further, That whenever a tractor or power and the necessary implements are utilized interchangeably with work animals in the same holding during the same agricultural year the rental shall not exceed ten per cent for the combined services.
Immediately after as used in this Act shall be inclusive of the last day of harvesting, threshing or processing and the next five days thereafter.
Immediate farm household includes the members of the family of the tenant, and such other person or persons, whether related to the tenant or not, who are independent upon him for support and who usually help him operate the farm enterprise.
Incapacity means any cause or circumstances which prevents the tenant from fulfilling his contractual obligations and those imposed by this Act.
Inspect means to examine and observe. However, such examinations and observations shall not include any acts of intimidation or coercion.
Auxiliary crop is any product raised other than the crop to which the cultivation of the land is principally devoted; and excluding the produce of the lot referred to in Section twenty-six.