The Rent Law of Bengal; With All Important Rulings of the High Court in Rent Suits Up to the Present Date (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875. Excerpt: ... of protecting embankments, or the introduction of railways, or the rise of new markets, or the generally increased facilities of communication which are caused by the construction of ordinary metalled roads, &c. (9 W. R., 190, F. B., Poolin Behary Sein v. Watson & Co., per Seton-Karr, J.). Otherwise than by the agency or at the expense of the ryot.--If a ryot having received ordinary land, converts it into land of specially high value, he will not be liable to pay exceptionally high rates, but the ordinary rates paid by land of the same quality, irrespective of the special character impressed on it by himself. Thus, if a ryot takes ordinary land and works up into orchards, he is only liable to ordinary rates, if he alone has impressed the orchard character on the land (2 W. It., Act X, 40, Chowdhry Khan v. Gour Jana). An increase of value created by the agency and at the expense of a ryot is not a ground of enhancement. "If a ryot, by his own labor and at his own expense, converts one kind of land into another kind of land, he must pay the rates prevailing in the neighbourhood for land of that kind which he originally received from his zemindar, and he is subject to enhancement to the rates paid by the same class of ryots for neighbouring land of the same description as, and with similar advantages to, that which he originally received; he is also subject to increase on account of increased value of such similar lands, so far as there is increase independent of his own labor and capital" (id., per Campbell, J.) A ryot who brings jungle land into cultivation is liable, after a reasonable period, to pay the full customary rates of cultivated lands in the pergunnah. But where a ryot does more than bring uncultivated land into cultivation, i.e., converts, by ...