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Home Dictionary Name: land useExisting land use map
Existing land use map, a map indicating the use to which lands in any specified area are put at the time of preparing the map and includes the register prepared, with the map giving details of land use. [M.P. Motoryan Sanshodhan Adhiniyam, 2004, s. 2(i)]...
land use
land use Generic term used to describe activities such as zoning and/or the control of real estate developments. Land-use planning laws are implemented by local zoning and ordinances. Source: FindLaw ...
Land use planning
Land use planning, means the deliberate, systematic development of real estate through methods such as zoning, environmental-impact studies, and the like. Also termed urban planning, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 884....
Land
Land, in its restrained sense, means soil, but in its legal acceptation it is a generic term, comprehend-ing every species of ground, soil or earth, whatso-ever, as meadows, pastures, woods, moors, waters, marshes, furze and heath; it includes also houses, mills, castles, and other buildings; for with the conveyance of the land the structures upon it pass also. And besides an indefinite extent upwards, it extends downwards to the globe's centre, hence the maxim, Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad c'lum et ad inferos; or, more curtly expressed, Cujus est solum ejus est altum. See Co. Litt. 4 a.In an (English) Act of Parliament passed after 1850 'land' includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses, and buildings of any tenure, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 3. By the Law of Property Act,1925, s. 205(1)(ix.), 'land' for the purposes of the Act includes land of any tenure, and mines and minerals, whether or not held apart from the surface, buildings or parts of buildings (whether th...
Agricultural land
Agricultural land, 'means any land used as arable, meadow, or pasture ground only, cottage gardens exceeding one quarter of an acre, market gardens, nursery grounds, orchards or allotments, but doe not include land occupied together with a house as a park, gardens other than as aforesaid, pleasure grounds, or any land kept or preserved mainly or exclusively for purposes of sport or recreation, or land used as a racecourse.'-Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, s. 9. Compare definition of 'agriculture' in Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, s. 61, as including 'horticulture, forestry and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, inclusive of keeping or breeding of live stock, poultry or bees, and the growth of fruit, vegetables and the like.'Unless there was evidence that forest lands had been, in some way set apart or earmarked for or linked up with an agricultural purpose, by their owners or occupiers, it could not be held that they are agricultural lands, Controller of Estate duty ...
Cut and removed from any land
Cut and removed from any land, words 'cut and removed from any land' used in s. 4 to not suggest felling of the trees and removing the wood from one part to another on the land. They would indicate cutting the trees and removing them out of the limits of the land held by the grantee or the lessee under the grant or lease, Divisional Forest Officer v. Tata Finlay, (2001) 5 SCC 684: AIR 2001 SC 2672 (2676). [Kerala Grants and Leases (Modification of Rights) Act, 1980, s. 4]Cut and removed from any land, the words 'cut and removed from any land, used in s. 4 of the Kerala Grants and Leases (Modification of Rights) Act, 1980 do not suggest falling of trees and removing the wood from one part to another on the land, Divisional Forest Officer v. Tata Finlay Ltd., (2001) 5 SCC 684 [Kerala Grants and Leases (Modification of Rights) Act, 1980 (16 of 1980)]...
Uses
Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult to find him out, since the possession of his estate was conferred upon him by a formal and notorious ceremony, technically called livery of seisin, which was performed openly and in the presence of the people of the locality.It soon became evident that the simple rules of the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people.Hence ingenuity was sharpened to hit upon a device which should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities.A system was found by the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common Law. Two methods of transferring realty began to co-exist in this country-the ancient Common Law system, and the later invention, which is denomi...
Charitable uses and trusts
Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws as prejudicial to the common utility, and that such public mischief had greatly increased by many large and improvident dispositions, made by languishing or dying persons to charitable uses, to take place after their deaths to the disherison of their lawful heirs, enacted that no lands or other hereditaments whatsoever, nor money, or personal estate to be laid out in land should be given to any person or bodies corporate, or charged by any person in trust, for any charitable uses, unless such gift, etc., should be made by deed (thus entirely excluding gifts by will) executed twelve months before the death of the donor and be enrolled in the court of Chancery within six calendar months after execution, and be without any power of revocation for the benefit of the donor.T...
Vacant land
Vacant land, is land which is not being used mainly for the purposes of agriculture in an urban agglomeration, Parshottamdas Ramdas Patel v. Municipal Corporation Ahmedabad, (1981) 22 Guj LR 137 (DB).Vacant land, is land which is not being used mainly for the purposes of agriculture, which includes horticulture and the land on which no construction can be made under the Building Regulations of the Calcutta Corporation is not and cannot be vacant land, Gautam Roy v. State, AIR 1993 Cal 266: (1993) 1 Cal LJ 405: (1993) 97 Cal WN 302.Means land as such, not being land mainly used for the purpose of agriculture, but situated in an urban agglomeration, Meera Gupta v. State of West Bengal, (1992) 1 Civ LJ 203 (SC).Means land, not being land mainly used for the purpose of agriculture, within the local limits of Kolkata and Howrah Municipalities under the jurisdiction of Kolkata. [Metropolitan Develop-ment Authority Kolkata Land Revenue, Act, 2003, s. 2(n)]The expression 'vacant land' is defin...
Waste lands
Waste lands, the expression 'waste lands' has a well-defined legal connotation. It means lands which are desolate, abandoned, and not fit ordinarily for use for building purposes. In Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edn., Vol. 2, p. 2510, the meaning of the word 'waste' is given as: 1. Waste or desert land, uninhabited or sparsely inhabited and uncultivated country; a wild and desolate region; 2. A piece of land not cultivated or used for any purpose, and producing little or no herbage or wood. In legal use, a piece of such land not in any man's occupation but lying common. 3. A devastated region. In the sequence in which the expression 'waste lands' appears in the two relevant sections, it cannot but have its ordinary etymological meaning as given in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary i.e., land lying desolate or useless, without trees or grass or vegetation, not capable of any use. In Rajanand Brahma Shah v. State of Uttar Pradesh, ((1967) 1 SCR 373: AIR 1967 SC 1081: (1967) 2 SCJ 8...
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