Ajmer Tenancy and Land Records Act, 1950
Bare Act · 1950
An Act to declare and amend the law relating to agricultural tenancies, record-of-rights and certain other matters in Ajmer.
- Act number
- 42 of 1950
- Enacted
- 10 May 1950
- Contents
- 205 sections · 24 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
- Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 – Repeal
- Section 3 – Savings
- Section 4 – Definitions
- Section 5 – Power of landlord and tenant to act through agent
Chapter II — Primary Rights
- Section 6 – Primary rights of tenant (preview)
- Section 7 – Prohibition of certain acts (preview)
- Section 8 – Prohibition against deprivation of certain rights (preview)
- Section 9 – Certain rights of landlord (preview)
Chapter III
- Section 10 – Definition (preview)
- Section 11 – Application for demarcation (preview)
- Section 12 – Order of demarcation of niji jot (preview)
- Section 13 – Demarcation (preview)
- Section 14 – Status of tenant of niji jot (preview)
- Section 15 – Succession to niji jot (preview)
- Section 16 – Collector's powers to let to tenants (preview)
Chapter IV — Classes Of Tenants
- Section 17 – Classes of tenants (preview)
- Section 18 – Occupancy tenants (preview)
- Section 19 – Exproprietary tenants (preview)
- Section 20 – Acquisition of exproprietary rights (preview)
- Section 21 – Relinquishment of exproprietary rights (preview)
- Section 22 – Hereditary tenants (preview)
- Section 23 – Land in which hereditary rights shall not accrue (preview)
- Section 24 – Non-occupancy tenants (preview)
Chapter V — Devolution, Transfer, Extinotion, Division, Exchange And Acquisition
- Section 25 – Interest of a tenant, if heritable and transferable (preview)
- Section 26 – Prohibition against certain kind of transfer or sub-lease (preview)
- Section 27 – Right to sub-let (preview)
- Section 28 – Tenancy, when extinguished (preview)
- Section 29 – Life tenancy of female, when extinguished (preview)
- Section 30 – Rights of sub-tenant on extinction of tenant's interest (preview)
- Section 31 – Vacating of holding on extinction of right (preview)
- Section 32 – Possession of land not vacated (preview)
- Section 33 – Division of holdings (preview)
- Section 34 – Co-tenant's right to claim division of produce (preview)
- Section 35 – Right of tenant in land received in exchange (preview)
- Section 36 – Exchange of land for consolidation of cultivated area (preview)
- Section 37 – Acquisition of land by the landlord for certain purposes (preview)
- Section 38 – Decision of certain disputes arising out of acquisition proceedings (preview)
- Section 39 – Reinstatement of tenant ejected under section 37 (preview)
- Section 40 – Acquisition of proprietary right by tenant (preview)
Chapter VI — General Provisions Relating To Tenancies
- Section 41 – Right to written lease and procedure to obtain it (preview)
- Section 42 – Registration of leases (preview)
- Section 43 – Declaration of rights in certain cases (preview)
- Section 44 – Right of certain tenants to make improvements (preview)
- Section 45 – Right of non-occupancy tenants to make improvements (preview)
- Section 46 – Right of landlord to make Improvement (preview)
- Section 47 – Provision when both landlord and tenant want to make the same improvement (preview)
- Section 48 – Restrictions on making improvement (preview)
- Section 49 – Compensation for improvement, when permissible (preview)
- Section 50 – Determination of compensation (preview)
- Section 51 – Works benefiting other land (preview)
- Section 52 – Disputes as regards improvements (preview)
- Section 53 – Right of tenant paying fixed money rent to plant tree (preview)
- Section 54 – Right of a tenant paying batai or bighori to plant tree (preview)
- Section 55 – Tenant's rights in tree existing at the commencement of the Act (preview)
- Section 56 – Decision of disputes regarding trees (preview)
- Section 57 – Surrender by tenant (preview)
- Section 58 – Abandonment (preview)
- Section 59 – Taking possession of holding surrendered or abandoned (preview)
- Section 60 – Dispute arising out of surrender and abandonment of land (preview)
Chapter VII — Premia And Other Levies
- Section 61 – Acceptance of premium; how far permissible (preview)
- Section 62 – Lag, neg and cess (preview)
Part I — —Basic Rent Of Tenants
- Section 63 – Liability for payment of rent (preview)
- Section 64 – Scale of rent for different classes of tenants (preview)
- Section 65 – Status and liability of person permitted to retain possession (preview)
Part II — —Payment And Recovery Of Rent
- Section 66 – Hypothecation of produce towards payment of rent (preview)
- Section 67 – Procedure when produce is attached by civil or revenue court (preview)
- Section 68 – Right of landlord to collect rent from cultivator (preview)
- Section 69 – No cartage allowed (preview)
- Section 70 – Presumption as to payment by tenant and application of such payment (preview)
- Section 71 – Modes of making payment of money rent (preview)
- Section 72 – Right to get receipt (preview)
- Section 73 – Penalty for not issuing proper receipt (preview)
- Section 74 – Obligation of Chief Commissioner to print and supply books of receipt (preview)
- Section 75 – Penalty for non-production of receipt book with counterfoils (preview)
- Section 76 – Rights and liabilities in respect of produce (preview)
- Section 77 – Application for officer to make division (preview)
- Section 78 – Application for kuta (preview)
- Section 79 – Procedure on application (preview)
- Section 80 – Collector to publish return of current prices (preview)
- Section 81 – Assessment of bighori by court (preview)
- Section 82 – Commutation of batai rent into bighori in certain cases (preview)
- Section 83 – Payment of commuted rent (preview)
- Section 84 – Rent when and how payable (preview)
- Section 85 – Claim for arrears of rent (preview)
- Section 86 – Interest in cases of arrears of rent (preview)
- Section 87 – Landlord's power to charge irrigation dues (preview)
- Section 88 – Method of recovering sayar (preview)
- Section 89 – Realisation of sayar as arrears of revenue (preview)
Part III — —Emergency Provision
Part IV — —Payment Of Revenue By Biswadars To Jagirdars And Muafidars
Chapter IX — Ejectment Of Tenants
- Section 92 – Arrears deemed satisfied when tenant is ejected (preview)
- Section 93 – Decree for arrears, how executed (preview)
- Section 94 – Adjustment of arrears and compensation on ejectment (preview)
- Section 95 – Entry of landholder on land from which tenant is ordered to be ejected (preview)
- Section 96 – Grounds of ejectment (preview)
- Section 97 – Special grounds of ejectment of non-occupancy tenants (preview)
- Section 98 – Procedure in ejectment for decreed arrears (preview)
- Section 99 – Procedure for ejectment on other grounds (preview)
- Section 100 – Application for ejectment of non-occupancy tenant (preview)
- Section 101 – Procedure on application (preview)
- Section 102 – Remedies for wrongful ejectment (preview)
- Section 103 – Procedure on application (preview)
- Section 104 – Ejectment of person occupying land without title (preview)
- Section 105 – Procedure on application (preview)
- Section 106 – Consequences of failure to file application under section 102 or 104 (preview)
- Section 107 – No separate relief claimable, if not claimed in revenue court (preview)
Chapter X — Compensation And Penalties
- Section 108 – Tenant's right to claim inquiry for illegal exaction and other matters (preview)
- Section 109 – Power to award compensation in proceedings for arrears of rent (preview)
- Section 110 – Prosecution of landholder for illegal exaction (preview)
- Section 111 – Compensation for exaction by landholder and for false complaint by tenant (preview)
- Section 112 – Penalty for habitual infringement of rights of tenant (preview)
- Section 113 – Penalty for illegal entry on a holding (preview)
- Section 114 – Compensation, how realisable (preview)
Chapter XI — Grants
- Section 115 – Exemption of muafidar (preview)
- Section 116 – Interpretation (preview)
- Section 117 – Grant which cannot be resumed (preview)
- Section 118 – Grounds on which certain grants may be resumed (preview)
- Section 119 – How to deal with resumable grant (preview)
- Section 120 – Application of certain Chapters and sections to grantees (preview)
- Section 121 – Grants, how far transferable (preview)
- Section 122 – Void transactions (preview)
- Section 123 – Power to hear cases of grantees (preview)
Chapter XII — Preparation Of Record-Of-Rights And Determination And Modification Of Rent And Rent-Rates
- Section 124 – Applicability of Part III (preview)
Part I — —Preparation And Maintenance Of Maps And Records
- Section 125 – Power to form and alter Patwaris circles (preview)
- Section 126 – Appointment of patwaris (preview)
- Section 127 – Appointment of girdawars (preview)
- Section 128 – Cadre and pay of girdawars and patwaris (preview)
- Section 129 – Girdawars and patwaris to be public servants (preview)
- Section 130 – Maintenance of maps and fieldbooks (preview)
- Section 131 – Obligation of owners as to boundary marks (preview)
- Section 132 – Record-of-rights (preview)
- Section 133 – Contents of certain registers (preview)
- Section 134 – Registers of revenue-paying, revenue-assigned and revenue-free villages (preview)
- Section 135 – The annual registers (preview)
- Section 136 – Obligation to furnish information necessary for compilation of certain record-of-rights (preview)
- Section 137 – Decision of disputes (preview)
- Section 138 – Inquiry into cases (preview)
- Section 139 – Certain decisions, no bar to civil suit (preview)
- Section 140 – Value of entries and decisions in contested cases (preview)
- Section 141 – Appointment and punishment of lambardars and patels (preview)
Part II — —Record And Rent-Rate Operations And The Appointment Of Officers
- Section 142 – Record and rent-rate operations (preview)
- Section 143 – Powers of the record officer, assistant record officer and rent-rate officer (preview)
- Section 144 – Sanctioned rates (preview)
- Section 145 – Duration of rent-rates (preview)
- Section 146 – Circle and soil classification (preview)
- Section 147 – Basis of rates for hereditary tenants (preview)
- Section 148 – Provision for rates in special cases (preview)
- Section 149 – Procedure in publishing and sanctioning rates (preview)
- Section 150 – Civil suit relating to record-of-rights and certain other matters barred (preview)
Sections
Part III — —Commutation, Abatement, Enhancement, And Determination Of Rent
- Section 152 – Commutation of rent from cash to kind (preview)
- Section 153 – Grounds of abatement of fixed money rent (preview)
- Section 154 – Ground of enhancement of fixed money rent (preview)
- Section 155 – Order for determination, commutation or variation of rent, when to take effect (preview)
- Section 156 – Joinder of parties in cases relating to variation of rent (preview)
- Section 157 – Determination of rent on partial ejectment (preview)
- Section 158 – Rent, how calculated for commutation, variation or determination (preview)
- Section 159 – Meaning of "substantial" in certain sections (preview)
- Section 160 – Basis of variation of rent in certain cases (preview)
- Section 161 – Period for which rent is not liable to modification (preview)
- Section 162 – Applications for variation of rent, by whom to be entertained (preview)
Chapter XIII — Extraordinary And Emergency Provisions
- Section 163 – Provision of rent and revenue in an emergency (preview)
- Section 164 – Remission or suspension of rent in agricultural calamities (preview)
- Section 165 – Bar to collection of rent remitted or suspended (preview)
- Section 166 – Period of suspension to be excluded in computing period of limitation (preview)
- Section 167 – Remission for calamity by court decreeing claim for arrears (preview)
- Section 168 – Jurisdiction of certain courts excluded in cases of remission and suspension of rent or revenue (preview)
Chapter XIV — Procedure And Jurisdiction Of Courts
- Section 169 – Cases cognizable by revenue courts (preview)
- Section 170 – Procedure of revenue courts (preview)
- Section 171 – Application of Indian Limitation Act, 1908 (preview)
- Section 172 – Limitation in cases under this Act (preview)
- Section 173 – Payment of court-fees under this Act (preview)
- Section 174 – Subordination of courts (preview)
- Section 175 – Place of sitting of revenue courts (preview)
- Section 176 – Chief Commissioner's power to confer powers (preview)
- Section 177 – Collector's power to place assistant commissioner in charge of subdivision (preview)
- Section 178 – Collector's powers to authorise certain courts to entertain and dispose of applications (preview)
- Section 179 – Powers of revenue courts to refer cases for investigation and report (preview)
- Section 180 – Powers of Chief Commissioner to create shamlat committee and courts (preview)
- Section 181 – Decree or order to be final in certain circumstances (preview)
- Section 182 – Submission to confirming court (preview)
- Section 183 – Form of decree or order to be submitted for confirmation (preview)
- Section 184 – Procedure for confirmation (preview)
- Section 185 – Review by the Chief Commissioner (preview)
- Section 186 – Review by other courts (preview)
- Section 187 – Revision (preview)
- Section 188 – Power to transfer cases (preview)
- Section 189 – Power of collector to transfer and withdraw cases (preview)
- Section 190 – Sub-divisional officer's power to transfer cases (preview)
- Section 191 – Power of record officer to transfer and withdraw cases (preview)
- Section 192 – Transfer of cases by the district judge (preview)
- Section 193 – Dispute as regards ownership of land (preview)
- Section 194 – Procedure when plea of proprietary right raised in revenue court (preview)
- Section 195 – Procedure when plea of tenancy raised in civil court (preview)
- Section 196 – Reference to Judicial Commissioner (preview)
Chapter XV — Miscellaneous Provisions
- Section 197 – Provision for injunction and appointment of receiver (preview)
- Section 198 – Cases in which legal practitioners may appear (preview)
- Section 199 – Persons who may appear before a revenue court (preview)
- Section 200 – Costs in revenue courts (preview)
- Section 201 – Power of revenue court to summon persons (preview)
- Section 202 – Mode of service of summons or notice (preview)
Chapter XVI — Power To Make Rules
- Section 203 – Power to make rules (preview)