Supreme Court · 1955 INSC 8 · Decided 28 February 1955
The Collector of Bombay v. Nusserwanjlrattanji Mistri & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1955 INSC 8 · [1955] 1 S.C.R. 1311
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 74/1952
- Decided
- 28 February 1955
- Bench
- VIVIAN BOSE, T.L. VENKATARAMA AIYYAR, BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA (4-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act
Headnote
. S.C.R. SUPREME COURT REPORTS 1311 · THE COLLECTOR OF BOMBAY ... ) . . . ,, . .. . . ·. "· NUSSERWANJLRATTANJI MISTRI & OTHERS .. . ' (VIVIAN BosE, }AGANNADHADAS, VENKATARAMA AYYAR and SINHA JJ.] · Land revenue-Assessment-Right of Government to· of 1876). In the island of Bombay certain lands were held on a tenure known as "Foras". Under s. 2 of Bombay Act VI of 1851 the occupants were entitled to hold the lands subject only to the payment of revenue .then payable. Between 1864 and 1867 the Government of India acquired these
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