Crop
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Crop, corn, hay, and such other produce as can be cut and stored up. As to setting fire to crops, see the (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25Vict. c. 97), s. 16. As to growing crops, see EMBLE-MENTS.
As to freedom of cropping, see AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACT.
It connotes in its larger signification, products of the soil that are grown and raised yearly and are gathered during a single season. In this sense the term includes 'fructus industriales' and having regard to the etymology of the word it has been held to mean only products after they have been severed from the soil. Rev. Fr. K.C. Alexandar v. State of Kerala, (1973) 2 SCC 737: AIR 1973 SC 2498: (1974) 1 SCR 399.
Includes trees and bushes, Plant Health Act, 1967, s. 1(1)(b) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 650, p. 389.
As to freedom of cropping, see AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACT.
It connotes in its larger signification, products of the soil that are grown and raised yearly and are gathered during a single season. In this sense the term includes 'fructus industriales' and having regard to the etymology of the word it has been held to mean only products after they have been severed from the soil. Rev. Fr. K.C. Alexandar v. State of Kerala, (1973) 2 SCC 737: AIR 1973 SC 2498: (1974) 1 SCR 399.
Includes trees and bushes, Plant Health Act, 1967, s. 1(1)(b) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 650, p. 389.
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