Section 3. Definitions

(c) any annual rate chargeable on owners of lands under section 59 of the Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873 (VIII of 1873); (b) the local rate, if any, payable under the Punjab District Boards Act, 1883 (XX of 1883), and any fee leviable under section 33 of that Act from landowners for the use of or benefits derived from such works as are referred to in section 20, clauses (i) and (j), of that Act; (e) sums payable on account of village-expenses: (10) "village-cess" includes any cess, contribution or due which is customarily leviable within an estate and is neither a payment for the use of private property or for personal service nor imposed by or under any enactment for the time being in force: (11) "village-officer" means a chief-headman, headman or patwari: (12) "Revenue-officer", in any provision of this Act, means a Revenue, officer having authority under this Act to discharge the functions of a Revenue-officer under that provision: (13) "legal practitioner" means any legal practitioner with in the meaning of the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879 (XVIII of 1879), except a mukhtar: (14) "agricultural year" means the year commencing on the sixteenth day of June, or on such other date as the Local Government may by notification appoint for any local area: (15) "notification" means a notification published by authority of the Local Government in the official Gazette: (16) "incumbrance" means a charge upon or claim against land arising out of a private grant or contract: and (17) "survey-mark" includes boundary-mark (a) the local rate, if any, payable under the Punjab Local Rates Act, 1878 (V of 1878); (d) the zaildari and village-officers' cesses; and 3. Definitions. In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context,- (1) "estate" means any area- (8) "defaulter" means a person liable for an arrear of land-revenue, and includes a person who is responsible as surety for the payment of the arrear: (9) "rates and cesses" means rates and cesses which are primarily payable by landowners, and includes-