Rajah - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: rajahEstate
Estate [fr. status, Lat.; etat, Fr.], the condition and circumstance in which an owner stands with regard to his property. The word is used in several senses and may denote either an estate in land; or an estate in property other than land; a legal estate or an equitable estate, land being an immovable is capable of being the subject of many estates existing concurrently with each other, thus the absolute ownership or fee simple may be leased and sub-leased, mortgaged and charged, each of the holders of these estates having a good legal or equitable estate at the same time; again, estates may be in possession, or in futuro; personal property may also be subject concurrently to a variety of ownerships, according to its nature; technically, in regard to land, the word is used to denote the quantity of interest, e.g., estate in fee simple, for life, for years, etc., in either legal or equitable estates. In practice its most important division is into real estate and personal estate, altho...
VerbarRaja
Same as Rajah...
Rajah
A native prince or king also a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts...
Rajahship
The office or dignity of a rajah...
VerbarRani
A queen or princess the wife of a rajah...
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 ...
Forest land
Forest land, without evidence to show that forest land had been cleared and prepared or earmarked for agricultural purposes, it must be treated as prima facie non-agricultural land, Controller of Estate Duty v. V. Venugopala Varma Rajah, AIR 1977 SC 121: (1976) 4 SCC 3: (1977) 1 SCR 346.The term 'forest land', occurring in s. 2, will not only include 'forest' as understood in the dictionary sense, but also any area recorded as forest in the Government record irrespective of the ownership, T.N. Godavarman v. Union of India, AIR 1997 SC 1228 (1230). [Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, s. 2]See also W.L. Wadhera v. Union of India, (2002) 9 SCC 108: AIR 2002 SC 1913.The expression 'forest land' should be given an extended meaning to cover a track of land covered with trees, shrubs, vegetation and undergrowth under mingled with trees with pastures, be it of natural growth or man made forestation. Samatha v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1997 SC 3297 (3380). [Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, s....
Marumakkattayam law
Marumakkattayam law, means the system of law applicable to persons--(a) who, if this Act had not been passed, would have been governed by the Madras Marumakkattayam Act, 1932 (XXII of 1933); the Travancore Nayar Act (II of 1100); the Travancore Ezhava Act (III of 1100); the Travancore Nanjinad Vellala Act (VI of 1101); the Travancore Kshatriya Act (VII of 1108); the Travancore Krishnanvaka Marumakkathayee Act (VII of 1115); the Cochin Marumakkathayam Act (XXXIII of 1113); or the Cochin Nayar Act (XXIX of 1113), with respect to the matters for which provision is made in this Act; or(b) who belong to any community, the members of which are largely domiciled in the State of Travancore-Cochin or Madras as it existed immediately before the 1st November, 1956, and who, if this Act had not been passed, would have been governed with respect to the matters for which provision is made in this Act by any system of inheritance in which descent is traced through the female line; but does not includ...
Suit
Suit, a following. It is used in divers senses:-(1) An action in the Supreme Court, or a proceeding by petition in the Divorce branch of that Court; a prosecution; a petition to a Court, etc. See Jud. Act, 1873, s. 100. By Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225, suit includes action.(2) Suit of Court, an attendance which a tenant owes to his lord's Court.(3) Suit Covenant, where one has covenanted to do suit and service in his lord's Court.(4) Suit Custom, where service is owed time out of mind.(5) Suithold, a tenure in consideration of certain services to the superior lord.(6) The following one in chase, as fresh suit, Cowel.The word 'suit' does not include an appeal or an application. [Limitation Act, 1963, s. 2 (l)]The word 'suit' will include appellate proceedings, Nachiappa Chettiar v. Subramaniam Chettiar, AIR 1960 SC 307: (1960) 2 SCR 209.The word 'suit' includes an appeal from the judgment in the suit. The only difference between a suit and an appeal is that an appeal only reviews and corrects...
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