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Definition :

Proprietor, includes a company, Motipur Zamindari Co. Ltd. v. State of Bihar, AIR 1953 SC 320. [See also Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950]

Means a person as respects a village, muhal or land settled on zamindari system owning whether in trust or for his own benefit, such village, muhal or land, Mishri Lal v. Dhirendra Nath, (1999) 4 SCC 1.

Proprietor, owner. In s. 93 of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, as amended by the Act of 1932 (see LETTERS PATENT), the following definition occurs:-

'Proprietor of a new and original design,'--

(a) Where the author of the design, for good consideration, executes the work for some other person, means the person for whom the design is so executed; and

(b) Where any person acquires the design or the right to apply the design to any article, either exclusively of any other person or otherwise, means, in the respect and to the extent in and to which the design or right has been so acquired, the person by whom the design or right is so acquired; and

(c) In any other case, means the author of the design; and where the property in, or the right to apply, the design has devolved from the original proprietor upon any other person, includes that other person.