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Overlord

One who is lord over another or others a superior lord a master...

Within the meaning of, the words 'within the meaning of' have been inserted to include only those documents which deal, or purport to deal, with true intermediaries, that is to say, with persons who hold an interest in the land between the raiyat or actual cultivator and the overlord of the demesne, Biswambhar Singh v. State of Orissa, AIR 1954 SC 139 (145). [Orissa Estates Abolition Act, 1951 (1 of 1952), s. 2h]...

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