Act 42 of 1950

The Ajmer Tenancy and Land Records Act, 1950

An Act to declare and amend the law relating to agricultural tenancies, record-of-rights and certain other matters in Ajmer.

  • Ministry of Law and Justice
  • Legislative Department
  • Enacted 1950-05-10
  • 205 sections
SectionTitle
1 Short title, extent and commencement.Read
2 Repeal.Read
3 Savings.Read
4 Definitions.Read
5 Power of landlord and tenant to act through agent.Read
6 Primary rights of tenant.Read
7 Prohibition of certain acts.Read
8 Prohibition against deprivation of certain rights.Read
9 Certain rights of landlord.Read
10 Definition.Read
11 Application for demarcation.Read
12 Order of demarcation of niji jot.Read
13 Demarcation.Read
14 Status of tenant of niji jot.Read
15 Succession to niji jot.Read
16 Collector's powers to let to tenants.Read
17 Classes of tenants.Read
18 Occupancy tenants.Read
19 Exproprietary tenants.Read
20 Acquisition of exproprietary rights.Read
21 Relinquishment of exproprietary rights.Read
22 Hereditary tenants.Read
23 Land in which hereditary rights shall not accrue.Read
24 Non-occupancy tenants.Read
25 Interest of a tenant, if heritable and transferable.Read
26 Prohibition against certain kind of transfer or sub-lease.Read
27 Right to sub-let.Read
28 Tenancy, when extinguished.Read
29 Life tenancy of female, when extinguished.Read
30 Rights of sub-tenant on extinction of tenant's interest.Read
31 Vacating of holding on extinction of right.Read
32 Possession of land not vacated.Read
33 Division of holdings.Read
34 Co-tenant's right to claim division of produce.Read
35 Right of tenant in land received in exchange.Read
36 Exchange of land for consolidation of cultivated area.Read
37 Acquisition of land by the landlord for certain purposes.Read
38 Decision of certain disputes arising out of acquisition proceedings.Read
39 Reinstatement of tenant ejected under section 37.Read
40 Acquisition of proprietary right by tenant.Read
41 Right to written lease and procedure to obtain it.Read
42 Registration of leases.Read
43 Declaration of rights in certain cases.Read
44 Right of certain tenants to make improvements.Read
45 Right of non-occupancy tenants to make improvements.Read
46 Right of landlord to make Improvement.Read
47 Provision when both landlord and tenant want to make the same improvement.Read
48 Restrictions on making improvement.Read
49 Compensation for improvement, when permissible.Read
50 Determination of compensation.Read
51 Works benefiting other land.Read
52 Disputes as regards improvements.Read
53 Right of tenant paying fixed money rent to plant tree.Read
54 Right of a tenant paying batai or bighori to plant tree.Read
55 Tenant's rights in tree existing at the commencement of the Act.Read
56 Decision of disputes regarding trees.Read
57 Surrender by tenant.Read
58 Abandonment.Read
59 Taking possession of holding surrendered or abandoned.Read
60 Dispute arising out of surrender and abandonment of land.Read
61 Acceptance of premium; how far permissible.Read
62 Lag, neg and cess.Read
63 Liability for payment of rent.Read
64 Scale of rent for different classes of tenants.Read
65 Status and liability of person permitted to retain possession.Read
66 Hypothecation of produce towards payment of rent.Read
67 Procedure when produce is attached by civil or revenue court.Read
68 Right of landlord to collect rent from cultivator.Read
69 No cartage allowed.Read
70 Presumption as to payment by tenant and application of such payment.Read
71 Modes of making payment of money rent.Read
72 Right to get receipt.Read
73 Penalty for not issuing proper receipt.Read
74 Obligation of Chief Commissioner to print and supply books of receipt.Read
75 Penalty for non-production of receipt book with counterfoils.Read
76 Rights and liabilities in respect of produce.Read
77 Application for officer to make division.Read
78 Application for kuta.Read
79 Procedure on application.Read
80 Collector to publish return of current prices.Read
81 Assessment of bighori by court.Read
82 Commutation of batai rent into bighori in certain cases.Read
83 Payment of commuted rent.Read
84 Rent when and how payable.Read
85 Claim for arrears of rent.Read
86 Interest in cases of arrears of rent.Read
87 Landlord's power to charge irrigation dues.Read
88 Method of recovering sayar.Read
89 Realisation of sayar as arrears of revenue.Read
90 Recovery of arrears in the event of general refusal to pay.Read
91 Application of certain sections to biswadars.Read
92 Arrears deemed satisfied when tenant is ejected.Read
93 Decree for arrears, how executed.Read
94 Adjustment of arrears and compensation on ejectment.Read
95 Entry of landholder on land from which tenant is ordered to be ejected.Read
96 Grounds of ejectment.Read
97 Special grounds of ejectment of non-occupancy tenants.Read
98 Procedure in ejectment for decreed arrears.Read
99 Procedure for ejectment on other grounds.Read
100 Application for ejectment of non-occupancy tenant.Read
101 Procedure on application.Read
102 Remedies for wrongful ejectment.Read
103 Procedure on application.Read
104 Ejectment of person occupying land without title.Read
105 Procedure on application.Read
106 Consequences of failure to file application under section 102 or 104.Read
107 No separate relief claimable, if not claimed in revenue court.Read
108 Tenant's right to claim inquiry for illegal exaction and other matters.Read
109 Power to award compensation in proceedings for arrears of rent.Read
110 Prosecution of landholder for illegal exaction.Read
111 Compensation for exaction by landholder and for false complaint by tenant.Read
112 Penalty for habitual infringement of rights of tenant.Read
113 Penalty for illegal entry on a holding.Read
114 Compensation, how realisable.Read
115 Exemption of muafidar.Read
116 Interpretation.Read
117 Grant which cannot be resumed.Read
118 Grounds on which certain grants may be resumed.Read
119 How to deal with resumable grant.Read
120 Application of certain Chapters and sections to grantees.Read
121 Grants, how far transferable.Read
122 Void transactions.Read
123 Power to hear cases of grantees.Read
124 Applicability of Part III.Read
125 Power to form and alter Patwaris circles.Read
126 Appointment of patwaris.Read
127 Appointment of girdawars.Read
128 Cadre and pay of girdawars and patwaris.Read
129 Girdawars and patwaris to be public servants.Read
130 Maintenance of maps and fieldbooks.Read
131 Obligation of owners as to boundary marks.Read
132 Record-of-rights.Read
133 Contents of certain registers.Read
134 Registers of revenue-paying, revenue-assigned and revenue-free villages.Read
135 The annual registers.Read
136 Obligation to furnish information necessary for compilation of certain record-of-rights.Read
137 Decision of disputes.Read
138 Inquiry into cases.Read
139 Certain decisions, no bar to civil suit.Read
140 Value of entries and decisions in contested cases.Read
141 Appointment and punishment of lambardars and patels.Read
142 Record and rent-rate operations.Read
143 Powers of the record officer, assistant record officer and rent-rate officer.Read
144 Sanctioned rates.Read
145 Duration of rent-rates.Read
146 Circle and soil classification.Read
147 Basis of rates for hereditary tenants.Read
148 Provision for rates in special cases.Read
149 Procedure in publishing and sanctioning rates.Read
150 Civil suit relating to record-of-rights and certain other matters barred.Read
151 Commutation of rent from kind to cash.Read
152 Commutation of rent from cash to kind.Read
153 Grounds of abatement of fixed money rent.Read
154 Ground of enhancement of fixed money rent.Read
155 Order for determination, commutation or variation of rent, when to take effect.Read
156 Joinder of parties in cases relating to variation of rent.Read
157 Determination of rent on partial ejectment.Read
158 Rent, how calculated for commutation, variation or determination.Read
159 Meaning of "substantial" in certain sections.Read
160 Basis of variation of rent in certain cases.Read
161 Period for which rent is not liable to modification.Read
162 Applications for variation of rent, by whom to be entertained.Read
163 Provision of rent and revenue in an emergency.Read
164 Remission or suspension of rent in agricultural calamities.Read
165 Bar to collection of rent remitted or suspended.Read
166 Period of suspension to be excluded in computing period of limitation.Read
167 Remission for calamity by court decreeing claim for arrears.Read
168 Jurisdiction of certain courts excluded in cases of remission and suspension of rent or revenue.Read
169 Cases cognizable by revenue courts.Read
170 Procedure of revenue courts.Read
171 Application of Indian Limitation Act, 1908.Read
172 Limitation in cases under this Act.Read
173 Payment of court-fees under this Act.Read
174 Subordination of courts.Read
175 Place of sitting of revenue courts.Read
176 Chief Commissioner's power to confer powers.Read
177 Collector's power to place assistant commissioner in charge of subdivision.Read
178 Collector's powers to authorise certain courts to entertain and dispose of applications.Read
179 Powers of revenue courts to refer cases for investigation and report.Read
180 Powers of Chief Commissioner to create shamlat committee and courts.Read
181 Decree or order to be final in certain circumstances.Read
182 Submission to confirming court.Read
183 Form of decree or order to be submitted for confirmation.Read
184 Procedure for confirmation.Read
185 Review by the Chief Commissioner.Read
186 Review by other courts.Read
187 Revision.Read
188 Power to transfer cases.Read
189 Power of collector to transfer and withdraw cases.Read
190 Sub-divisional officer's power to transfer cases.Read
191 Power of record officer to transfer and withdraw cases.Read
192 Transfer of cases by the district judge.Read
193 Dispute as regards ownership of land.Read
194 Procedure when plea of proprietary right raised in revenue court.Read
195 Procedure when plea of tenancy raised in civil court.Read
196 Reference to Judicial Commissioner.Read
197 Provision for injunction and appointment of receiver.Read
198 Cases in which legal practitioners may appear.Read
199 Persons who may appear before a revenue court.Read
200 Costs in revenue courts.Read
201 Power of revenue court to summon persons.Read
202 Mode of service of summons or notice.Read
203 Power to make rules.Read
204 Reinstatement of tenant ejected before commencement of this Act.Read
205 Provision for pending and other cases.Read
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