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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....
Catch crop
Any crop grown between the rows of another crop or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time...
Away-going, or Way-going crops
Away-going, or Way-going crops, crops sown during the last year of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration. The right which an out-going tenant has to take an away-going crop is sometimes given to him by the express terms of the contact, but, where that is not the case, he is generally entitled to do so by local custom or usage; such custom or usage has been held to be reasonable and valid, see Wigglesworth v. Dallison, 1 Sm LC, decided by Lord Mansfield in 1799, and to apply to tenants by parol agreement as well as by deed or written contract of demise, and this for the benefit and encouragement of agriculture; but modern farming agreements frequently bar any claim under it, and substitute a claim to compensation as found due by valuers....
Growing crop
Growing crop, The expression 'growing crop' might appropriately comprehend tendu leaves, but would not include, 'Adjat timber', bamboos, nor even tendu plants, Mahadeo v. State of Bombay, AIR 1959 SC 735 (740): (1959) Supp 2 SCR 339. [M.P. Abolition of Proprietary Rights (Estates, Mahals and Alienated Lands) Act, (1 of 1951), s. 34]Crops that are in process of growth, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 711...
Agriculture and agricultural crop
Agriculture and agricultural crop, the terms 'agriculture' and 'agricultural crop' have wider as well as narrower connotation. The wider concept covers both the primary or basic as well as the subsequent operations. It takes within its fold among other things, the products of the land which have some utility either for consumption or for trade and commerce including forest products such as timber, sal and piyasal trees, casuarina plantations, tendu leaves, horranuts etc., Gwalior Rayons silk Mfg (Wvg) Co. Ltd v. Custodian of Vested Forests, 1990 Supp SCC 785 (789): AIR 1990 SC 1747. [Kerala Private Forests (vesting and Assignment), Act, 1971 (26 of 1971)]...
Controlled crop or plants
Controlled crop or plants, grown for any purpose, of the types or varieties of plants which are protected by the order in that area, and such additional kind of crops or plants whether grown or self-sown and whether of those or any other types or varieties, as may be specified in the order for the purpose of this definition in that area, Plant Varieties and Seeds Act, 1964, s. 33(4) (ii) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 623, p. 364....
Food-crops
Food-crops, includes crops of sugarcane. [Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955), s. 2 (b)]...
Off-going Crop
Off-going Crop. See AWAY-GOING CROPS....
Raising the crop
Raising the crop, the words 'raising the crop' cannot be confined simply to the ploughing of the land, sowing the seeds and cutting the harvest. It must be emphasised that s. 6(2)(b)(iv) is not to be construed in a narrow and pedantic sense and must be given its full effect in the background of modern large-scale farming and the organisation required for it, Purtabpore Company Ltd. v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1970 SC 1578: (1970) 2 SCC 152: (1971) 1 SCR 426. [U.P. Agricultuarl Income Tax Act, 1949, s. 6(2)(b)(iv)...
Way-going crops
Way-going crops. See AWAY - GOING CROPS....
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