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Pay and pay scale

is the remuneration which is payable to him. Remuneration is the recurring payment for services rendered during the tenure of employment. Pay and salary are necessarily not interchangeable concepts. Their meanings vary depending upon the provision providing

Malguzar

Malguzar, the word 'malguzar' means, primarily, rent payer. It may equally be applied either to a tenure-holder or a raiyat in North Bihar to mean tenure-holder, Uchit Kopri v. Adhik Mandal, AIR 1925 Pat 194.

Villenage

Villenage, a base tenure. There are two sorts:-1st, pure, where a man holds upon terms of doing whatsoever is commanded of him;

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Land

(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

Cornage

Cornage [fr. Cornu, Lat., a horn], a kind of tenure in grand serjeanty, the service of which was to blow a horn when any invasion of the Scots

Intoxicating liquor

on premises under 15l. yearly value to 100l. on premises of 900l. yearly value or more. If the tenure of the holder of the licence is leasehold, he may deduct [s. 21(3)] from his rent a percentage

freehold

freehold [translation of Anglo-French frank tenement freehold estate] : a tenure of real property the duration of which cannot be determined and by which an estate in fee simple

Abridge

action of dower, where any land was put into the plaint or demand which was not in the tenure of the defendant; for if the defendant pleaded non-tenure, joint-tenancy, or the like, in abatement of the writ

Ancient demesne

Ancient demesne, a tenure now abolished by s. 128 of the (English) L. P. Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c.

Bassa tenura

Bassa tenura, a base tenure, was a holding by villenage, or other customary service opposed to alta tenura, the highest tenure in capite,

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