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ASSAM LAND & REVENUE REGULATION, 1886 RIGHTS OF LAND HOLDERS IN ASSAM SECTION - 9 Since a landholder engages to pay land-revenue to Government he is included in the broad category called settlement holder. But the status of a landholder is acquired by obtaining a periodic lease from the State Government for a period of not less than 10 years (vide Section 8 of the Regulation). This makes his position distinct from other settlement holders. It may be noted in this connection that, prior to 1903, periodic leases were issued ordinarily for ten years. From 1903 to 1936 the system of twenty years' periodic lease was in vogue. The period was changed to thirty years in 1936 by the Assam Land Revenue Reassessment Act (Assam Act VIII of 1936). But in 1990 it was again changed back to twenty years by amending the aforementioned Act (vide Assam Act IX of 1990) Section 9 of the Regulation describes the rights of a landholder: "A landholder shall have permanent, herit...

ASSAM LAND & REVENUE REGULATION, 1886 RIGHTS OF PROPRIETORS IN ASSAM Section - 7 Section 7 of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation simply says that the proprietors shall have the same rights and enjoy the same privileges as they had at commencement of the Regulation. This implies that every proprietor may have rights different from the others. While this may, in fact, be true in details, the broad frame-work of their rights is the same. As we have seen before, proprietors can be divided into two classes---- (i)                   proprietors of revenue-free-estates and (ii)                 proprietors of permanently settled estates. Proprietors of revenue-free-estate - The rights of proprietor of revenue free estates are permanent heritable and transferable. Their estates are not liable to pay...

ASSAM LAND & REVENUE REGULATION, 1886 RIGHTS OVER LAND - ACQUISITION OF RIGHTS OVER LAND IN ASSAM The Provisions of this Chapter do not apply to Reserve Forests. Under Section 6 of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886, only 4 categories of rights have been recognized by the State, and these are: (a) rights of proprietor, landholders and settlement-holders other-than-landholders, and other rights acquired in the manner provided in the Regulation (e.g. fishery-rights.) (b) rights legally derived from any right mentioned in clause (a) (e.g. by transfer or succession.)                                                                  ...