Legal glossary
“absolute occupancy-tenant”
Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881 · s. 4
(16) “Absolute occupancy-tenant” means, in reference to any land, a tenant who, at a settlement of such land made before this Act comes into force, or after such a settlement but before this Act comes into force, was recorded, by order of a Revenue or Settlement-officer, in respect of such land, as an “absolute occupancy-raiyat,” or in terms equivalent thereto:
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