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The Ajmer Tenancy and Land Records Act

An Act to declare and amend the law relating to agricultural tenancies, record-of-rights and certain other matters in Ajmer.
1950
List of Chapters & Sections
PRELIMINARY PRIMARY RIGHTS Niji jot CLASSES OF TENANTS Devolution and transfer of tenancies Extinction of tenancies Division, exchange and acquisition of holdings Leases Declaration of rights Improvements Trees Surrender and abandonment PREMIA AND OTHER LEVIES PART I.—Basic rent of tenants PART II—Payment and recovery of rent General provisions Arrears PART III.—Emergency provision PART IV.—Payment of revenue by biswadars to jagirdars and muafidars General Grounds of ejectment Remedies for wrongful ejectment Ejectment of person occupying land without title COMPENSATION AND PENALTIES GRANTS PREPARATION OF RECORD-OF-RIGHTS AND DETERMINATION AND MODIFICATION OF RENT AND RENT-RATES PART I.—Preparation and maintenance of maps and records PART II. —Record and rent-rate operations and the appointment of officers Procedure in determining cash rent-rates PART III.—Commutation, abatement, enhancement, and determination of rent EXTRAORDINARY AND EMERGENCY PROVISIONS General provisions Subordination of courts Powers of courts and places for holding courts Confirmation of orders Review Revision Transfer of cases Question of proprietary right in revenue court Question of tenancy right in civil courts Conflict of jurisdiction MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS POWER TO MAKE RULES TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

  1. PRELIMINARY

  2. 1
     Short title, extent and commencement
  3. 2
     Repeal
  4. 3
     Savings
  5. 4
     Definitions
  6. 5
     Power of landlord and tenant to act through agent

  • PRIMARY RIGHTS

  • 6
     Primary rights of tenant
  • 7
     Prohibition of certain acts
  • 8
     Prohibition against deprivation of certain rights
  • 9
     Certain rights of landlord

  • Niji jot

  • 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

  • CLASSES OF 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

  • Devolution and transfer of tenancies

  • 25
     Interest of a tenant, if heritable and transferable
  • 26
     Prohibition against certain kind of transfer or sub-lease
  • 27
     Right to sub-let

  • Extinction of tenancies

  • 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

  • Division, exchange and acquisition of holdings

  • 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

  • Leases

  • 41
     Right to written lease and procedure to obtain it
  • 42
     Registration of leases

  • Declaration of rights

  • 43
     Declaration of rights in certain cases

  • Improvements

  • 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

  • Trees

  • 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

  • Surrender and abandonment

  • 57
     Surrender by tenant
  • 58
     Abandonment
  • 59
     Taking possession of holding surrendered or abandoned
  • 60
     Dispute arising out of surrender and abandonment of land

  • PREMIA AND OTHER LEVIES

  • 61
     Acceptance of premium; how far permissible
  • 62
     Lag, neg and cess

  • PART I.—Basic rent of tenants

  • 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

  • PART II—Payment and recovery of rent

  • 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

  • General provisions

  • Arrears

  • 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

  • PART III.—Emergency provision

  • 90
     Recovery of arrears in the event of general refusal to pay

  • PART IV.—Payment of revenue by biswadars to jagirdars and muafidars

  • 91
     Application of certain sections to biswadars

  • General

  • 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

  • Grounds of ejectment

  • 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

  • Remedies for wrongful ejectment

  • 102
     Remedies for wrongful ejectment
  • 103
     Procedure on application

  • Ejectment of person occupying land without title

  • 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

  • COMPENSATION AND PENALTIES

  • 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

  • GRANTS

  • 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

  • PREPARATION OF RECORD-OF-RIGHTS AND DETERMINATION AND MODIFICATION OF RENT AND RENT-RATES

  • 124
     Applicability of Part III

  • PART I.—Preparation and maintenance of maps and records

  • 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

  • PART II. —Record and rent-rate operations and the appointment of officers

  • 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

  • Procedure in determining cash 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

  • PART III.—Commutation, abatement, enhancement, and determination of rent

  • 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

  • EXTRAORDINARY AND EMERGENCY PROVISIONS

  • 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

  • General provisions

  • 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

  • Subordination of courts

  • 174
     Subordination of courts

  • Powers of courts and places for holding 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
  • 180
     Powers of Chief Commissioner to create shamlat committee and courts

  • Confirmation of orders

  • 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

  • Review

  • 185
     Review by the Chief Commissioner
  • 186
     Review by other courts

  • Revision

  • 187
     Revision

  • Transfer of cases

  • 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

  • Question of proprietary right in revenue court

  • 193
     Dispute as regards ownership of land
  • 194
     Procedure when plea of proprietary right raised in revenue court

  • Question of tenancy right in civil courts

  • 195
     Procedure when plea of tenancy raised in civil court

  • Conflict of jurisdiction

  • 196
     Reference to Judicial Commissioner

  • MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

  • 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

  • POWER TO MAKE RULES

  • 203
     Power to make rules

  • TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

  • 204
     Reinstatement of tenant ejected before commencement of this Act
  • 205
     Provision for pending and other cases