Section 88. Rights of ejected tenants in respect of crops and land prepared for sowing.

The following rules shall be applicable in the case of every tenant ejected from a holding :-- (1) When the tenant has, before the date of his ejectment, sown or planted crops in any land comprised in the holding, he shall be entitled, at the option of the landlord, either to retain possession of that land and to use it for the purpose of tending and gathering in the crops, or to receive from the landlord the estimated value of the labour and capital expended by the tenant in preparing the land and sowing, planting and tending the crops, together with reasonable interest thereon. (2) When the tenant has, before the date of his ejectment, prepared for sowing any land comprised in his holding, but has not sown or planted crops on that land, he shall be entitled to receive from the landlord the estimated value of the labour and capital expended by him in so preparing the land, together with reasonable interest thereon : Provided that a tenant shall not be entitled to retain possession of any land or receive of any land or receive any sum in respect thereof under this section when, after the commencement of proceedings by a landlord for his ejectment, he has cultivated or prepared the land contrary to local usage : Provided, also, that the rent, if any, payable to the landlord by the tenant at the time of ejectment may be set off against any sums payable to the tenant under this section.