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Housing of the working classes

giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners from any land subject only to the compensation available under Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act,1919, and as diminished by the 4th Sched. To the Act of 1936

Land

of land, and things attached to the earth of permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth. [Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894), s. 3 (a)] The sanad undoubtedly used the word 'lands' to describe the

Local authority

Act, 2000 (56 of 2000), s. 2 (m)] The expression 'local authority' is not defined in the Land Acquisition Act. But by the General Clauses Act 10 of 1897 the expression 'local authority' is defined as meaning

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Institutions

or incorporeal: and here real or personal services, as being incorporeal things, are treated of. The modes of acquisition introduced by the Civil Law follow; and the property of Things, according to the Civil Law, acquired either

Person aggrieved

affectation of his title to compensation, Babu Ram v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1995) 2 SCC 689. [Land Acquisition Act, 1894, s. 28A]

Occupancy right

a larger class of ryots. They are creatures of custom or of statute only in the sense that acquisition of such rights by ryots does not depend upon the bounty or gift of the landlord, but they

Open space

1930, s. 2; (English) also Local Government Act, 1933, s. 174, providing that a compulsory order for the acquisition of an open space is provisional only and must be confirmed by Parliament; and as to open spaces

Orchard

Mohd v. State of West Bengal, (1978) 2 SCC 36: AIR 1978 SC 1072 (1073). [West Bengal Estate Acquisition Act, 1954, s. 6(1)(f) and 2(p)]

Panel

any authoritative persons or consultants where determination or advise is required by statute, e.g., arbitrators under the (English) Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919; and Rules of 1925 under s. 84 of the (English) Law

Pourveyance, or Purveyance

12 Car. 2, c. 24; 3 Hallam's Middle Ages, c. 8, pt. 3, p. 148, see LAND COMPULSORY ACQUISITION.

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