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Lords of Erection

Lords of Erection. On the Reformation in Scotland, the king, as proprietor of benefices formerly held by abbots and priors, gave them out in

Raiyat

means a person who holds land for purpose of agriculture, AIR 1972 Cal 381 (383). [West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1956, s. 2(10)]

Wasteland

land included in the holding of such proprietors, Gaon Sabha v. Nathi, (2004) 12 SCC 555. [Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954, s. 7(1) Expl. (1)Q, 7(r)] Means lands which are desolate, abandoned, and not fit ordinarily for

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Void

Kerala v. M.K. Kunhikannan Nambiar Manjeri Manikoth, AIR 1996 SC 906 (908): (1996) 1 SCC 435. [Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1964 (1 of 1964), s. 83] The expression 'void' means without force, effect or consequence, not binding;

Vested

interests', Bibi Sayeeda v. State of Bihar, AIR 1996 SC 1936 (1941): (1996) 9 SCC 516. [Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 (30 of 1950), s.4 (a)]

University

a new college or university shall be submitted to Parliament as well as to the Sovereign in Council. Reforms.-In 1854, by 17 & 18 Vict. c. 81, commissioners were appointed with powers to frame statutes for the

Tulchan Bishops

a name derisively applied to the persons appointed as titular bishops to the Scottish sees immediately after the Reformation, in whose names the revenues of the sees were drawn by the lay barons who had impropriated them,

Tail

conveyance of fee-simple estates. If the tenant-in-tail be a feme covert (under coverture which began before 1883) (Law Reform (M. W. and T.) Act, 1935, s. 4, and (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 167), her

Seduction

service, but also the wounded feeling of the parent or person standing in loco parentis. The (English) Law Reform (Miscellaneous Pro-visions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), expressly excepts actions for seduction, so that

Scot and lot voters

Scot and lot voters, voters in certain boroughs en-titled before the Reform Act of 1832 to the franchise in virtue of their paying this contribution; the rights of those living

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