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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...
Urban immovable property
Urban immovable property, the expression 'urban' immovable property' may mean 'land and buildings', or 'buildings' or 'land'. It would take in lands of every description, i.e., agricultural land, urban land or any other kind and it necessarily includes vacant land, Union of India v. Valluri Basavaiah Choudhary, AIR 1979 SC 1415 (1425): (1979) 3 SCR 324....
Hold
Hold, to have as tenant.Of a Court or judge, to enounce a legal opinion. In strictness, a court 'holds,' and a single, judge 'rules.'It means 'own', State of West Bengal v. Subodh Gopal Bose, AIR 1954 SC 92: (1954) SCR 587.'Hold' means own. This expression connotes two concepts, i.e., physical possession or legal title to the vacant lands, Govt. of A.P. v. H.E.H. Nizam, Hyderabad, AIR 1996 SC 3142: (1996) 3 SCC 282. [Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976, s. 3]1. In England, tenure 2. This word occurs most often in conjunction with other, e.g. fee-hold, lease hold, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
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...
Presentation
Presentation, the offering by the patron of a benefice to the ordinary of a person to be instituted to the benefice. It must be in writing (29 Car. 2, c. 3), and is in the nature of letters-missive to the ordinary.The sovereign, as protector ecclesi', is the patron paramount of all benefices which do not belong to other patrons, and usually presents by letters-patent (26 Hen. 8, c. 1; 1 Eliz. c. 1).As to other patrons, the right of presentation is sometimes confounded with that of nomination; but presentation is the offering a person to the bishop, while nomination is the offering such a person to the patron. These two rights may co-exist in different persons; thus where an advowson is vested in trustees or mortgagees they have the right of presentation, while the right of nomination is in the cestui que trust, or mortgagors, but the trustees or the mortgagee must judge of the qualification of the nominee, Mirehouse on Advowsons, 136.A bishop has, by Canon 95 (which abridged the period...
vacant
vacant 1 : not filled or occupied 2 a : not put to use [ land] b : having no heir or claimant [a estate] ...
Vacant possession
Vacant possession, in action of recovery of land. See R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., r. 9, as to mode of service of writ....
Abator, or Abater
Abator, or Abater, one who abates a nuisance or enters into a house or land vacant by the death of the former possessor, and not yet taken possession of by his heir or devisee, Cowel. Also an agent or cause by which an abatement is procured....
Work
Work, means any of the following works, namely:(i) a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work;(ii) a cinematograph film;(iii) a sound recording. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2 (y)]The general words 'work' is limited to something material in the sense of buildings, structures etc., mere fencing a vacant plot is not within the expression 'work', Kantaben M. Amin v. SpecialLand Acquisition Officer, Baroda, AIR 1990 SC 103. [Defence of India Act, 1962, s. 36(5)]1. Physical and mental exertion to attain an end, esp. as controlled by and for the benefit of employer2. To act; to perform either physically or mentally, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1599Work, meant a structure or apparatus of some kind; an architectural or engineering structure, a build-ing edifice, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Kartar Singh Bhadana v. Hari Singh Nalwa, (2001) 4 SCC 661....
Street
Street, as appearing in different provisions of the Punjab Municipal Act is to be read in the wider sense and not to be treated only as a lane. Parking place attached to road is also covered, Harpal Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1992 P&H 314. [Land Acquisition Act (1 of 1894), ss. 5A, 17; Punjab Municipal Act (3 of 1911), s. 58]Street, in the (English) Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), by s. 343, includes any highway, including a highway over any bridge, and any road, lane, footway, square, Court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not; and see A.G. v. Laird, 1925 C 318.Includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley or passage in a cantonment, whether a thoroughfare or not and whether built upon or not, over which the public have a right-of-way and also the road-way or foot-way over any bridge or cause way. [Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), s. 2(xxxvii)]Includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley, passage or open space, whether a thoroughfare ...
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