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Introduction To Land Law

The document discusses land laws and land reforms in India. It defines key terms like land, land law, land revenue, and the Zamindari system. It explains the differences between the Transfer of Property Act and Land Revenue Act. It provides details about the Land Revenue Act of 1901 and the salient features of the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act of 1950, which abolished intermediaries and reformed land ownership laws.

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Introduction To Land Law

The document discusses land laws and land reforms in India. It defines key terms like land, land law, land revenue, and the Zamindari system. It explains the differences between the Transfer of Property Act and Land Revenue Act. It provides details about the Land Revenue Act of 1901 and the salient features of the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act of 1950, which abolished intermediaries and reformed land ownership laws.

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Land Laws

Introduction

 What is Land?
 What is Land Law and why it is important?
 Difference between Transfer of Property act and Land Revenue Act.
 What is revenue?
 Land revenue act of 1901
 Zamindari system and its abolition.
  
 salient features of U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950.
 introducing the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and land Reforms bill in the Assembly of july
7, 1949, pt. Govind Ballabh Pant (the then Chief Minister)
  
Land

 The part of the earth's surface that is not covered by water.


Land Law

 It  is the form of law that deals with the rights to :


 Use
 alienate
 or exclude others from land. 
Land Reforms

 Before independence in India, Land was distributed in highly unequal manner.


 To get secure access to land for the poor and landless, policies of land reform
were implemented to benefit poorer section of society since independence.
 After that a number of land reforms have been done by the government such
as abolition of 'Zamindari' or middlemen as revenue collectors, imposing
ceiling on landholdings and awarding of the surplus land's rights to landless,
and tenancy reforms (Mearns, 1998).
 Land reform is described as redistribution of land from the rich to the poor.
More broadly, it comprises of regulation of ownership, operation, leasing,
sales, and inheritance of land (indeed, the redistribution of land itself
requires legal changes). I
Difference between Transfer of Property
Act and Land Revenue
TPA Land Revenue
IT COVERS THE TRANSFER OF RIGHTS • This act provides for assessments,
• FOR EXAMPLE IF A is selling property partitions, maping, mutation etc.
to b in that case TPA provides for • All these records are kept with the
mechanism to facilitate such authorities in the name of registered
transfer which means for selling a owner of the said property.
property A has to execute a sale
deed in favour of B.
• TPA generally provides for
instrument to be used for several
kinds of transfers.
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 Therefore the major difference between both the Act is for example if I have
to sell 100 acres of land to other person, TPA will come into picture only to
legalise the transfer of rights whereas LRA assures that the person selling his
100 acres land is the registered owner in the revenue records.
Land Revenue

 It  is tax or revenue levied on agricultural production on land. It is either


collected as a percentage of the share of total crop or a monetary value is
fixed on the land to be paid by the farmer. It has been the major source
of revenue for empires.
 Warren Hasting was the person who started land Revenue system in india in
the year 1772.
Land revenue Act 1901

 This act was the Ist enactment in U.P.


 Main purpose of this act was to demarcate the Land of the state into several
revenue areas such as districts, sub- dist, tehsils, villages and maintaining a
map and written record of the same.
 It gave the provisions for the appointment of revenue officers in each of the
revenue areas who act as per the provisions laid down under the code, and
other Rules & Regulations made from time to time.
 The said provisions of LRA 1901 and the corresponding rules provided for
appointments, assessments, partitions, transfers, record of right, rights
acquired, and liabilities incurred, fixation of rent , powers conferred upon
authorities and order issued by them.
Zamindari system

 Tax collection by zamindars.


 Intermediaries .
U.P Zamindari Abolition and Land
Reform Act
 Two fold objective:
• To abolish zamindari system
• To make Land Reforms
•  It was expedient to provide for the abolition of the zamindari system which
involves intermediaries between the tiller of the soil and the state in Uttar
Pradesh and for the acquisition of their rights, title and interest and to
reform the law relating to land.
• In this Act definition of Land :
• Land held or occupied for the purpose of agriculture, horiculture or animal
husbandary which includes pisciculture and poultry farming.

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