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Onauth Nauth Deb Law Research Thesis. Occupancy Right: Its History and Incidents Together with an Introduction Dealing with Land Tenure in Ancient India

1919

all the more striking because the real wealth of the country is and has always been agricultural.fhe question has to be answered in the silence of express law by a reference Proper to the actual practices and the ideas of the time.2 Besides method of the researches into the archaic laws and customs of the enquiry. [...] From the above it is clearly shown that the only right which the king possesses over the land in the occupation of the subjects is a right to a share of its produce though the authorities are not unanimous as to the extent of this share the opinion of the most of the text-writers being that it is one-sixth while according to some an eighth tenth or even a twelfth is considered as proper an [...] none of them hive any c amection with the property beloning to the king nor can they be identified with rent or fee for the use and occupation of another's property and the fact that the taxes on the produce of the land and those on certain moveables are placed on the same tooting indicates t hat the demand of the king from tne cultivator of the soil of the share of its produce does not stand [...] "Even as the wild deer of the forests become the property of the man who first pierces them with arrows so does the arable land they say become the property of the man who first cuts down the jungle for purposes of cultivation."4 And the commentator ku/./ kg in explaining the same says :— "The field is spoken of as the property of the man who Chapter VI. [...] In our ancient iS'a.sfras it was called the ' Km) or a voluntary offering and the delivery of the king's share of the produce is described as the `ralidad ' (7fm) or the voluntary gift of the Vali ' to the king." The king was called the `L~saiiipe c' (fw4tiTA) or the protector of the cVis' (flvt) or the people and as such the id/i.
agriculture environment
Pages
436
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141970
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xx Radharomon Mookerjee view
Introduction Land Tenure in Ancient India
1-52 unknown view
Part I The Origin and Growth of Occupancy Right
53-106 unknown view
Part II The Incidents of Occupancy Right
107-354 unknown view
Index
i-lxii unknown view

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