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Symbolic

Symbolic, possession in land acquisition proceed-ings for taking possession will not change or affect the type of possession which had been taken by … will not change or affect the type of possession which had been taken by the officials of the Land Acquisition Department, Paramount Foods Corporation v. Delhi Development Authority, AIR 1995 Del 75.

Local authority

Children) 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 … town planning authority (by whatever name called) set up under any law for the time being in force. [Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (10 of 1894), s. 3 (aa)] Means any Nagar Panchayat, Municipal Council, municipal corporation, Panchayat constituted

Award

to be distinguished from the expression 'decree', Union of India v. Zora Singh, (1992) 1 SCC 673 (679). [Land Acquisition Act 1894, s. 23 (1A)] Award includes part of the award, K.K. John v. State of Goa, (2003) … judgment and/or decree, K.S. Pariapoornan v. State of Kerala, AIR 1992 SC 1488 (1493): (1992) 1 SCC 1488. [Land Acquisition Act, 1894, s. 23(1A)]

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Waste land, and arable land

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Purchase

Purchase (fr. perquisitio, or conqu'stus, Lat., according to the feudists], in its popular sense, an acquisition of land, obtained by way of bargain and sale, for money or some other valuable consideration; in its legal acceptation,

Restrictive Covenant

Property Act, 1925, s. 84, enabling an 'authority,' being one or more of the official arbitrators under the Acquisition of Land (Assess-ment of Compensation) Act, 1919, to discharge or modify the covenants under the conditions imposed by … Restrictive Covenant, defined by the Land Charges Act 1925, s. 10, Class D (ii.), as a covenant or agreement (not being made between lessor

Mortmain

only one acre of land, and Societies to promote Art, Science, Religion or like purposes not involving the acquisition of gain registered under the (English) Companies Act, 1929, may not, by s. 14 of that Act, hold … Mortmain [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and main hand], such a state of possession of land as makes it inalienable; whence it is said to be in dead hand--in a hand that cannot shift

Holding

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

Encumbrance

on the lands, Collector of Bombay v. Nusserwanji Rattanji Mistri, AIR 1955 SC 298: (1955) 1 SCR 1311. [Land Acquisition Act, (10 of 1894), s. 16] Means a burden of charge upon property, Magaram v. B.O.R., AIR 1990

Compensation

compulsorily by a Government Department or any local or Public Authority the compensation is regulated by the (English) Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 57) and Rules of 1919, … the apprehension of criminals; also that equivalent in money which is paid to the owners and occupiers of lands taken or injuriously affected for public purposes and under Act of Parliament, e.g., the (English) Lands Clauses Consolidation

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