Legal glossary
“land-holder”
Defined in 2 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Central Provinces Court of Wards Act, 1899 · s. 2
(c) "land-holder" means a malguzar as defined in the Central Provinces Land-revenue Act, 1881, XVIII of 1881, and the zamindar of any zamindari in a Scheduled District, and includes a muafidar, jagirdar, ubaridar or other assignee of land-revenue, and any person not hereinbefore specified who is interested in land and belongs to a class of which the Local Government, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, has declared the members to be land-holders for the purposes of this Act.
Read section 2The Delhi (Urban Areas) Tenants Relief Act, 1961 · s. 2
(c) "land-holder" means a person under whom a tenant holds land and to whom the tenant is, or but for a special contract would be, liable to pay rent for the land; - (d) "person under disability" means, —
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