Be it enacted by the National Assembly of the Philippines:

SECTION 1. Where a covenant or contract made between the owner of land and a lessee or tenant on share thereof has not been reduced to writing or has not been set forth in a document written in a language known to the lessee or tenant, the testimony of such lessee or tenant shall be accepted as prima facie evidence on the terms of a covenant or contract.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, October 17, 1936.