Section List

42/1950 - The Ajmer Tenancy and Land Records Act, 1950 ▶

Act Number: 42

Act Name: The Ajmer Tenancy and Land Records Act, 1950

Year: 1950

Enactment Date: 1950-05-10

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

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Legislative Department

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