Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 3(2), Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, Section 4(9) -- Two kinds of owners prevalent now : (i) who are owners of land or their heirs ; and (ii) landowners on the basis of possession - Ala Malikan have ceased to exist and Adna Malikan have come to be full proprietors, dual ownership abolished by Punjab Abolition of Ala Malikiyat and Talukdari..........
Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, Section 4(3), 4(5), 4(6), 4(9) -- Words `landowner', `tenant' and `landlord' - Scope of - Words `landowner' and `tenant' contradistinct - Words `landlord' and `tenant' correlated - Essential characteristic - Existing liability to pay rent, if it is, or could be there, only to landlord - landowner and to none other - Person not liable to pay rent,..........
Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953, Section 14A, 9, 2(1), 2(6) -- Ejectment - Essential requirement to be tenant - Must be a tenant of landlord-landowner - Landowner unless becomes a landlord to a tenant, can remain landowner in isolation - Existing liability to pay rent - Necessary - If not liable to pay rent, or cannot otherwise be made so liable to pay it - Not a..........
Haryana Ceiling on Lands Holdings Act, 1972, Section 8(1), 12(3) -- Transfer made prior to 30.07.1958 of land in excess of permissible area under Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act or Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act - Protected - Cannot be ignored while determining surplus area...........
Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, Section 84 -- Revision - Financial Commissioner if comes to the conclusion that no injustice or manifest injustice has been caused - Can decline to exercise discretionary powers of revision...........
Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, Section 77(3) - - Jurisdiction of Revenue Court to declare occupancy tenant - Neither expressly repealed nor impliedly repealed by coming into force of Punjab Occupancy Tenants (Vesting of Proprietary Rights) Act with effect from June IS, 1952 - Suit in Revenue Court for declaration of occupancy rights - Challenge that though relief claimed..........
Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953, Section 18 -- Purchase of a part of tenancy land - Competent - Open to tenant to purchase as much land as he desires provided conditions mentioned in S.18 fulfilled - Purchase application not liable to be dismissed on the ground that tenant had failed to include whole of his tenancy land in his purchase application - 1964 PLJ 168..........
Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, Section 77(3), Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 9 -- Suit in Civil Court for possession of land-Plaintiff; pleaded that defendants were tenants under them - Defendants denied that fact - Finding by Court that defendants were tenants under plaintiffs - Does not oust jurisdiction of Civil Court - Tenant if denies relationship of landlord and..........
Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, Section 82 -- Review after 6 years - Merely because a different view on facts can be taken - No ground to recommend for setting aside order which had validly been passed...........
Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953, Section 18 -- Purchase of tenancy land - Tenant must fulfill three conditions : (i) tenant of a big landowner ; (ii) continuous occupation of land comprised in tenancy for a minimum period of 6 years ; and (iii) land to be purchased not included in reserved area of landowner...........
