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Home Dictionary Name: village Page: 2Local authority
Local authority, includes panchayatiraj institutions, municipalities, a district board, cantonment board, town planning authority or Zila Parishad or any other body or authority, by whatever name called, for the time being invested by law, for rendering essential services or, with the control and management of civil services, within a specified local area. [Disaster Management Act, 2005, s. 2(h)]It is the political subdivision functioning within the framework of constitution and enjoying certain degree of autonomy serving as administrative units for state services, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 321.Means a municipal corporation, a municipal council, a Nagar Panchayat, an Industrial Township, a Cantonment Board, a Village Panchayat Constituted or Continued under any law for the time being in force. [Maharashtra Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 2006, s. 2(e)]Means a municipal corporation, Nagar Panchayat, Municipal Council, District Panchayat, Taluka Pa...
Locality
Locality, the question of notifying the locality might probably arise when all the lands in a village are sought to be acquired. Otherwise the word 'locality' is a word of such indefinite import that it is difficult to conceive of any locality in any particular village being notified for acquisition. Therefore when a locality in the sense of a village or perhaps a group of villages is notified for acquisition any person interested in any land in that locality would be entitled to be heard under s. 5A, Navneet Ram Batra v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1975 SC 2144 (2146): (1975) 2 SCC 727: (1976) 1 SCR 826. [Land Acquisition Act (10 of 1894), s. 5A]...
Pakka kaika
Pakka kaika, is a sort of proprietor and his right is in reality an under-proprietary right. A hissedar means in Kumaun and Garhwal, a co-sharer in the zamindari rights. A pakka kaikari village may, in course of time became kachcha kaikari losing their pakka kaikari rights. But a kachcha kaikari can, in no case become a pakka khaikari nor can a kachcha kaikari village be converted into pakka khaikari village, Sowell's Manual of Land Tenures of Kumaun Division (1955 Edn.)....
Town
Town, denotes the existence of houses in close proximity, concentration of a large number of people in a comparatively small area, engagement of a bulk of the population in non-agricultural activities, Baliat Sheikh v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1952 Cal 753; State v. Jagdish B. Rao, AIR 1970 Goa, Daman and Diu 54.Town, is an assemblage of buildings, public or private larger than a village and having more complete and independent local government, AIR 1970 Goa 54 (55). (Police Act, 1861, s. 34)1. A center of population that is larger and more fully developed then a village, but that is not incorporated as a city2. The territory within which this population lives, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Ville [fr. tun, Sax.], a tithing or vill; any collection of houses larger than a village. A place 'cannot be a towne in law, unlesse it hath, or in time pasthath had, a church, and celebration of divine service, sacraments, and burials' (Co. Litt. 115 b). 'And it appeareth by Littleton, that a to...
Proprietor
Proprietor, includes a company, Motipur Zamindari Co. Ltd. v. State of Bihar, AIR 1953 SC 320. [See also Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950]Means a person as respects a village, muhal or land settled on zamindari system owning whether in trust or for his own benefit, such village, muhal or land, Mishri Lal v. Dhirendra Nath, (1999) 4 SCC 1.Proprietor, owner. In s. 93 of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, as amended by the Act of 1932 (see LETTERS PATENT), the following definition occurs:-'Proprietor of a new and original design,'--(a) Where the author of the design, for good consideration, executes the work for some other person, means the person for whom the design is so executed; and(b) Where any person acquires the design or the right to apply the design to any article, either exclusively of any other person or otherwise, means, in the respect and to the extent in and to which the design or right has been so acquired, the person by whom the design or right is so acquired; and(c) In any ot...
Writing under his hand
Writing under his hand, a type written letter of resignation duly signed by the person tendering his resignation also means 'writing under his hand', Vice-chairman, Village Panchayat, Maranbeed v. Channabassappa B. Gaddi, AIR 1985 Kant 252 (256). [Karnataka Village Panchayats and Local Boards Act (10 of 1959), s. 31(2)]Means what the expression contemplates is a personal autograph of the person concerned and must mean what it says and it cannot be interpreted as written by some other person, M. Bali Fuli v. K.S. Mandali, AIR 1971 Guj 236: (1971) 12 Guj LR 861: ILR 1971 Guj 81....
Sharkati
Sharkati, means a partnership and a village is called Sharkati when the government receives a percentage of land revenue in the inam village, Sitaram Sadashiv v. Vithal Padhye, AIR 1945 Bom 364...
Phirni
Phirni, means passages provided for going from one village to the other and the circular roads around the village, Ishwar Singh v. State of Haryana, AIR 1996 P&H 30....
Mukhia
Mukhia, a village headman or any other village officer, by whatever name he is called, Hari Shanker Prasad Gupta v. Sibban Lal Saxena, AIR 1956 SC 314 (315), Representation of the People Act (43 of 1951), s. 123...
Khoti land
Khoti land, Khotis in the district of Kolaba are hereditary farmers of land revenue and are entitled to hold villages as khotis on their entering every year into the customary kabulayat. According to Molesworth's Dictionary 'khot' means: 'a renter of village, a farmer of land or revenue, a farmer of the customs, a contractor or monopolist; an hereditary officer whose duty it is to collect the revenue of the village for Government, also an officer appointed for this office; a tribe of Brahmins in the Southern Konkan', Shyam Sunder Tikam Shet v. State of Maharashtra, (1969) 2 SCC 217: AIR 1970 SC 381 (383). [Bombay Khoti Abolition Act, 1949 (6 of 1950), ss. 10 and 12]...
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