Section 153
Grounds of abatement of fixed money rent.
The Ajmer Tenancy and Land Records Act, 1950
About this Act
An Act to declare and amend the law relating to agricultural tenancies, record-of-rights and certain other matters in Ajmer.
The fixed money rent or the bighori, determined
under section 151, of an occupancy, an exproprietary of a hereditary tenant shall be liable to abatement on
one or more of the following grounds:--
(a) that the rent payable by the tenant is substantially greater than the rent calculated at the sanctioned rates appropriate to him; or
(b) that the productive power of the land held by the tenant has decreased by any cause beyond the control of the tenant during the currency of the present rent; or
(c) in case of fixed money rent, that the area of his holding has been decreased by diluvion, or by the taking up of land for a public purpose, or for a work of public utility.
(a) that the rent payable by the tenant is substantially greater than the rent calculated at the sanctioned rates appropriate to him; or
(b) that the productive power of the land held by the tenant has decreased by any cause beyond the control of the tenant during the currency of the present rent; or
(c) in case of fixed money rent, that the area of his holding has been decreased by diluvion, or by the taking up of land for a public purpose, or for a work of public utility.