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Grazing

Grazing. The right of grazing on the sides of the highway belongs to the adjoining owners usque ad medium filum vi'. See also AGISTMENT. As to power to attach grazing rights to small holdings and allotments, see s. 42 of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 36), as amended by 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 59...


Grazing

The act of one who or that which grazes...


Agriculture

Agriculture, the term 'agriculture' has been defined in various dictionaries both in the narrow sense and in the wider sense. In the narrow sense agriculture is cultivation of the field. In the wider sense it comprises all activities in relation to land including horticulture, forestry, breeding and rearing of livestock, dairying, butter and cheese-making, husbandry, etc. Whether the narrower or the wider sense of the term 'agriculture' should be adopted in a particular case depends not only upon the provisions of the various statutes in which the same occurs but also upon the facts and circumstances of each case, Maheshwari Seed Farm v. T.N. Electricity Board, (2004) 4 SCC 705 (711): AIR 2004 SC 2341.Agriculture includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming and livestock breeding and keeping, the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the framing of land for othe...


VerbarRasante

Sweeping grazing applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other and over the country is kept very low in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them...


Gisement

Gisement, cattle taken in to graze at a certain price; also the money received for grazing cattle. See AGISTMENT...


Mauzadar

Mauzadar, a Mauzadar is a public servant whose primary duty is to collect land revenue and other Government dues with the collection of which he is entrusted. He is responsible for the collection of poll-tax, house-tax, tauzibahir revenue, grazing fees and forest dues. He undertakes to pay into the treasury the full amount of all instalments of land revenue and local rates included in the Jamabandi and of house-tax, poll-tax and grazing fees within one month of the date on which they fall due for payment. In regard to land revenue, his duties are confined to collection and he is not concerned with its assessment, the settlement of land and the checking of maps or assessment papers, State of Assam v. Kanak Chandra Dutta, AIR 1967 SC 884 (885). [Constitution of India, Art. 311]...


interstate commerce

interstate commerce : commerce, traffic, transportation, and exchange between states of the U.S. see also commerce clause NOTE: While interstate commerce has been narrowly interpreted in judicial decisions in the past, more recent decisions have interpreted it more broadly and have allowed Congress to regulate internal or local activities that affect interstate commerce. For example, cattle crossing a state line while grazing and the movement of pollutants across state lines have been considered interstate commerce by federal courts in order to uphold Congress's regulatory jurisdiction. ...


Depasture

To pasture to feed to graze also to use for pasture...


Dewlap

The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox which laps or licks the dew in grazing...


Estancia

A grazing farm a country house...


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