East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948, Section 16A -- Subject to provisions of Section 117 Punjab Land Revenue Act - Question of title if arises - Consolidation Authorities cannot decide this question...........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 37, 45, 15, 16 -- Correction of mutation entry - Mutation entry incorporated in Jama-sandi - Parties should be left to approach Civil Court - Illegal transaction when reflected in mutation entry incorporated in Jamabandi - Revenue Authorities cannot ignore - Empowered to delete such entry...........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 34, 35, 36, 37 -- Mutation - Incorporation in revenue record of accepted facts or agreements recognised by law - Agreement if illegal and void - No mutation can be entered or attested in respect of such transaction - Mutation attested being illegal - Cannot be maintained - Must be set aside...........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 16 -- Powers of Financial Commissioner - Unlimited - Correction of patent errors of fact - Can be made at any stage...........
Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961, Section 7, Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Rules, 1964, Rule 19, 6 -- Unauthorised occupant - Scope of - Once relationship of landlord and tenant established between occupant and Panchayat - Unless Panchayat establishes infraction of any of the terms of tenancy or lease- - Occupant cannot be styled unauthorised..........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 34, 35, 36, 37 -- Mutation of inheritance - Registered Adoption Deed - Revenue Officer not to go into intricate questions of validity of such a registered document - Pendency of appeal about genuineness and validity of registered document - Does not debar Revenue Officer to act upon registered document unless and until declared..........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 16 -- Revision in lambardari case - Choice of Collector upheld by Commissioner - Continuing to work as Sarbarah Lambardar for a number of years without informing Revenue Authorities about death of Lambardar - Circumstance to be held against appointment - Financial Commissioner set aside choice of Collector upheld by Commissioner...........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 44 -- Change in revenue entries - Presumption attaches to later entries - Absence of material on record to indicate that later entries effected without proper mutation or order of Revenue Authorities - Preference cannot be given to earlier entries - Onus of bringing such material on record - On the person who wants presumption to be..........
Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, Section 77, 4(5) -- Revenue record shows forcible possession of land - Question of being a tenant does notarise - Repudiation of title of owner - Incurs upon occupier liability to de dispossessed...........
Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, Section 77(3)(d), 5 -- Tenant in possession of land since before 14th August, 1947, under Muslim owners who left for Pakistan on partition - Effect of Section 12 Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950, that occupancy tenancy cannot be terminated by Custodian notwithstanding provisions of Section 9 East Punjab Displaced Persons (Land..........
