Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 13, 16, 34, 35, 36, 37 -- Order on merit desirable in revenue cases - Amendment in appeal by way of correction of mutation number and village in head-note - Court has to take cognizance of technical shortcoming or typographical error and allow correction...........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 34, 35, 36, 37, 13, 16 -- Sanction of mutation - Correction of mutation number and village in head-note of appeal - Technical shortcoming or typographical error - Court has to take cognizance and allow correction...........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 113, 20, 21 -- Co - sharer not served notice of partition proceedings by Assistant Collector - Since co - sharer not given opportunity of being heard - Due process of law not completed at the level of Assistant Collector whose act of proceeding ex parte against co - sharer was wrong - Any decision by Assistant Collector would be..........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 16, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121 -- Revision in partition case - Compromise deed filed - Counsel for both parties gave undertaking in writing that revision be decided in accordance with compromise deed - Revision disposed of accordingly...........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 16 -- Financial Commissioner debarred to exercise revisional jurisdiction in a case decided under Redemption of Mortgages (Punjab). Act ...........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 13 -- Appeal - Dismissal in default - Restoration application also dismissed in default - Wilfully absent not once but twice - No option but to dismiss both times in default of absence - Merely adopted dilatory tactics - Ex parte order upheld...........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 16, 116 -- Partition proceedings taken place in the presence of parties - Never raised any issue challenging partition during pendency of proceedings - No procedural illegality in partition proceedings which attained finality - Only interested to prolong and delay partition - Interference in revision declined...........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 78, 158 -- Person who claims himself not liable to make payment of land revenue - Cannot file suit in Civil Court without first depositing arrears of land revenue, otherwise jurisdiction of Civil Court barred as per Section 158 - Challenge to order of Revenue Authorities can be made only if arrears of land revenue deposited first and..........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 3(8) -- Lambardar who failed to deposit arrears of land revenue collected by him - Liable to be declared a `defaulter' under the Act - Definition of defaulter includes a village officer (Lambardar) who collects land revenue or any other sum recoverable as land revenue and does not pay the same to State Government...........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 34, 35, 36, 37 -- Mutation proceedings - Summary in nature - Element of haste involved - Shrouds mutation in suspicion - Responsibility of Revenue Officer to ensure, when parties have been contesting bitterly, that his order should not only be just but it should appear to be fair and just...........
