LANDHOLDER AND SETTLEMENT HOLDER OTHER-THAN-LAND HOLDER

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ASSAM LAND & REVENUE REGULATION, 1886

SECTION - III

LANDHOLDER AND SETTLEMENT HOLDER OTHER-THAN-LAND HOLDER

'Settlement holder' is defined under Section 3(h) of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886. Settlement holder by definition, "is a person (other than a proprietor) who has entered into an engagement with the State Government to pay land revenue, and includes a landholder.”.

'Landholder' is defined under section 8(1) (b) of the Assam Revenue Regulation, 1886 as a person who has acquired any land "under a lease granted by or on behalf of the Government the term of which is not less than 10 years". He holds the land subject to payment of land revenue. Thus, he "enters into an engagement with the Government to pay land -revenue," and falls into the broader category called "settlement-holder". The only thing specific about him is that his engagement is for a definite period of 10 years or more which, of course, leads to other consequences, particularly relating to the quality and quantity of rights.

So, settlement holder is a genus of which landholder is a species. The history of land administration in Assam (barring the permanently settled areas) under the British rule during the nineteenth century is really a history of the evolution of these two classes of holders of land.

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