The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters - January to June 1924

The protection afforded to such raiyats is in accordance with the determined policy of the Legislature as evident from the series of enactments since the Permanent Settlement Regulations that none of the permanent tenants on the land who are in actual occupation of the soil and cultivating it shall be disturbed in any way on the sale of the superior interest for arrears of government revenue o [...] with the condition of residence for the acquisition of occupancy rights enabled a largenumber of non-resident (Paikasht) raiyats to acquire it and the Revenue Sale law which followed the said Act extended the protection from eviction and rack rent at the hands of the auction purchaser at the revenue sale to the "occuparicy raiyats at fixed rate." The High Court upon the construction of that c [...] And considering also the fact as pointed out by the Committee that r3o years have elapsed since the date of the Permanent Settlement" we may very well make the year of the Rent Act instead of its date the time to which the origin of the tenancy must be referred if the tenant claims fixity of rent. [...] Persons guilty of libel or slander have to pay according to a nicely sliding scale varying with the enormity of the defamation the status of the maligned and the notice of the delinquent. [...] It may be pointed out that all the conditions required by the law as explained by the High Court to draw in the applicatitn of the provision existed in that case and though it was admitted that the conduct of the landlord was consistent with the hypothesis that the rent was fixed in perpetuity the only ground on which it was not acted upon was that the conduct of the landlord was also equally c