Lien is a right exercised by one on someone else property for a debt or charge. It is the right of a person who has lawfully received property belonging to another to retain that property for so long as a debt ...

Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, ...

A zamindar, zomindar, zomidar, or jomidar, in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a state who accepted the suzerainty of the Emperor of Hindustan. The term means land owner in Persian. Typically hereditary, zamindars held enormous tracts of land and control over their peasants, from whom they reserved the right ...

Bengal Tenancy Act 1885 was an enactment of the Bengal government defining the natural rights and liabilities of zamindars and tenants in response to widespread peasant discontent threatening the stability of the colonial system of governance. The permanent settlement gave absolute proprietary rights to landholders ...

CHAPTER XVI Limitation Limitation in suits, appeals and applications in Schedule III.— (1) The suits, appeals and applications specified in Schedule III annexed to this Act shall be instituted and made within the time prescribed in that Schedule for them, ...

CHAPTER XV Contract and custom Restrictions on exclusion of Act by agreement.— (1) Nothing in any contract between a landlord and a tenant made before or after the passing of this Act — (a) shall bar in perpetuity the acquisition ...

CHAPTER XIIIA Summary procedure for the recovery of rents under the Bengal Public Demands Recovery Act, 1913 to 158AAA.— Repealed by section 33 of the Bengal Tenancy (Amendment) Act, 1938 (Bengal Act No. 6 of 1938). CHAPTER XIV Sale for ...

CHAPTER XII Distraint 121 to 142. Repealed by section 87 of the Bengal Tenancy (Amendment) Act, 1928 (Bengal Act No. 4 of 1928). CHAPTER XIII Judicial procedure Power to modify Civil Procedure Code in its application to landlord and tenant ...

CHAPTER XI Non-accrual of occupancy and non-occupancy rights and record of proprietor's private lands Saving as to certain lands.— (1) Nothing in Chapter V shall confer a right of occupancy in, and nothing in Chapter VI shall apply to, lands ...

CHAPTER X Record-of-rights and settlement of rents Part I — Record-of-rights Power to order survey and preparation of record-of-rights.—(1) The State Government may, in any case if it thinks fit, make an order directing that a survey be made and ...