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Agri limitati, lands belonging to the state by right of conquest, and granted or sold in plots, Sand. Just....
Agri
Agri, arable lands in common fields...
Capituli agri
Capituli agri, head-lands, lands lying at the head or upper end of lands or furrows, Ken.Par. Ant. 137....
Modius terr' vel agri
Modius terr' vel agri, a quantity of ground containing in length and breadth 100 feet, Dugd. Mon. t. iii. p. 200....
Emphyteusis
Emphyteusis, the jus emphyteuticarium, or as it is more generally called, emphyteusis, was the right of enjoying all the fruits, and disposing at pleasure of the property of another, subject to the payment of a yearly rent (pensio or canon) to the owner. Formerly the lands of the Roman municipalities, or of the college of priests, used to be let for different terms of years, sometimes for a short term, such as five years, sometimes for a term amounting almost to a perpetuity, under the name of agri vectigales (Gai. iii. 145). Afterwards the lands of private individuals were let in a similar manner, and were also comprehended under the term agri vectigales. The emperors let their patrimonial lands in a similar way, and these lands so let were termed emphyteuticarii (C. xi. 58, 61), a name arising from there being a new ownership, or what almost amounted to an ownership, engrafted on the real dominion. Either shortly before or in the time of Justinian, the two rights, that of the ager ve...
Small holdings
Small holdings. The (English) Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, by s. 61 gives the following definition:-The expression 'small holding' means an agri-cultural holding which exceeds one acre and either does not exceed fifty acres or, if exceeding fifty acres, is at the date of sale or letting of an annual value for the purposes of income tax not exceeding one hundred pounds [as amended by the (English) Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 52), s. 16]....
State
State, Board of control for cricket India is not financially, functionally or administratively dominated by government nor it is under control of government. Government only exercises limited contract which is purely regulatory and not pervasive. Board is therefore not state, Zee Telefilms Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 2005 SC 2677.In Article 3 of Constitution of India as amended by the fifth Amendment Act 1955. It obviously refers to the States in the First Schedule and the 'Legislature of the State' refers to the Legislature which each State has under the Constitution, Babulal Parate v. State of Bombay, AIR 1960 SC 51: (1960) 1 SCR 605. (Constitution of India, Art. 3)The political system of a body of people who are politically organized; the system of rules by which jurisdiction and authority are exercised over such a body of people, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1415.The expression 'the State' has the same meaning in Part IV of the Constitution under Article 36. No reason was s...
Sub-tenant
Sub-tenant, 'sub-tenant' literally or statutorily either in the Rent Control Legislations or agri-cultural tenancies, normally, is a person in possession holding from the tenant. His right or interest depends on provisions in the statute, Lala Raghuraj Swarup v. Hardwari Lal, AIR 1991 SC 2072: (1991) 3 SCR 672: (1991) 4 SCC 391....
Tenant-right
Tenant-right, in England--(1) a custom ensuring to an out-going tenant compensation from his landlord for not being able to reap the full benefit of labour or improvements expended or made during the tenancy; or (2) the money due in pursuance of the custom. There is an implied contract by the landlord to pay this [Faviell v. Gaskoin, (1852) 7 Ex 273], and a custom throwing liability on the incoming tenant is bad [Bradburn v. Foley, (1878) 3 CPD 129] though as a matter of act and for convenience the incoming tenant generally pays the compensation by agreement with the landlord.Also the name given to tenures in ancient demesne in the North of England.See also CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY and AGRI-CULTURAL HOLDINGS; MARKET GARDEN.In Ireland, also a custom either ensuring a permanence of tenure in the same occupant without liability to any other increase of rent than may be sanctioned by the general sentiment of the community; or entitling a tenant of a farm to receive purchase-money, amounting t...
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