Zamindar definition
Examples of Zamindar in a sentence
He considered also that the claim to damages for the first year was barred by Limitation, The appellant argues that the grant is binding on the jDresent Zamindar, that its validity is not a material issue in the suit for damages instituted by the appellant against tres passers, that the Judge has misconstrued the grant which is embodied in Exhibits A, B and 0, and that the cause of action is a recurring one, and therefore the claim to damages for the first year is not barred.
This is no doubt true, but there is no evidence to establish a case of intermediate posses sion by the Zamindar.
The respondents claimed to hold the land in suit under th present Zamindar, and if it was competent for him to have entered intopossese sion, bis right of entry would be a sufficient answer to the action, and no action of trespass could then be maintained either against him or those who came in under him.
Although the land in suit had been lying waste at all events for some time before the death of the late Zamindar, it is shown by the appellant that the whole village was made over to her in 1846, and leased by her to the Pillayar Ohetfci family from 1850 to 1870, whilst there is no satis factory proof that the late or present ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ had possession of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ &c.
We see no reason to doubt that it was necessary to decide, for the purpose of this suit, whether the grant by the late Zamindar of these two villages wa not binding upon the present Zamindar, and whether he was entitled to terminate it.
It is argued that if the present ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ entered into possession subse quent to the death of the late Zamindar, and if after such entry he granted pattas to the respondents, they should not be treated as trespassers, whatever remedy the ap]jellant might have against the present Zamindar.
The pro position, therefore, that a grant by a Zamindar does not enure beyond his life, is confined in its operation to grants which, if made -by the managing coparcener ! .
Respondents contended that they entered into possession under a patta granted by the present Zamindar, that the grant to the appellant was only nominal, and that during the lifetime of the late Zamindar the village of Palankipadu was managed by him and pledged for his debt.
Although by virtue of joint ownership in an impartible estate belonging to a joint Hindu family, the Zamindar for the time being is incompetent to bind the corpus for his own purposes beyond his life, it is still open to him to bind his successors by an alienation which would bind a joint Hindu family if the estate^ were partible, and if the alienation were made by the managing coparcener for the time being.
It is obvious from these docu ments that no more than a provision for maintenance was intended by the late Zamindar, and reliance is therefore placed upon the decision of the Judicial Committee in ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ Sing ▇▇▇ ▇.