Holding. For the purposes of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 9), holding is defined [s. 57(1)] as follows: 'Holding' does not include an allotment garden or include any land cultivated as a garden unless it is cultivated wholly or mainly for the purpose of the trade or business of market gardening but, except as aforesaid, means 'any parcel of land held by a tenant which is either wholly agricultural or wholly pastoral, or in part agricultural and as to the residue pastoral, or in whole or in part cultivated as a market garden, and which is not let to the tenant during his continuance in any office, appointment or employment held under the landlord.' The Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 10), contains a similar definition in s. 49; also in Scots law to signify the tenure or nature of the right given by the superior to the vassal.
Holding is defined by s. 2(2) of the Travancore-Cochin Kanam Tenancy Act, 1955 as a parcel or parcels of land held under a single engagement by a tenant as a kanam from a jenmi and shall include any portion of a holding as above defined which the jenmi and kanam-tenant have agreed to treat as a separate holding, Cochin Devaswom Board v. Vamana Setti, AIR 1966 SC 1980 (1985): (1966) 3 SCR 724.
The word 'hold' used in s. 7A of the Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 would mean that the intermediary must hold, as owner under a title and in occupation of the land or the building in which the hats are conducted or bazars are situated in his own right as owner or by virtue of the authority or settlement, Bibi Sayeeda v. State of Bihar, AIR 1996 SC 1936: (1996) 6 SCC 516 [Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 (30 of 1950), s. 7A]
The expression 'holding' used in ss. 3, 5, 6 and 10 of the Maharashtra Agricultural Lands (Ceiling on Holding) Act, 1961 shows that the statute treats a holding as a unit for purposes of determination of surplus land which can be acquired from such holding, Bhikoba Shankar Dhumal v. MohanLal Punchand Tathed, AIR 1982 SC 865: (1982) 1 SCC 680: (1982) 3 SCR 218.
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Means a parcel or parcels of land occupied by a thika tenant under one set of conditions along with any tank included is such land, West Bengal Thika Tenancy (Acquisition and Regulation) Act, 2001, s. 2(3).
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