Raiyat
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Anonymous
(Querist) 13 January 2011
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Meaning of raiyat having khunt-khatti rights?
Kirti Kar Tripathi
(Expert) 13 January 2011
ss. 7 and 8 of the Chhota Nagpur Tenancy Act of 1908. Sec- tions 7 and 8 of the Act provide:
"7.(1) Meaning of 'raiyat having khunt-khatti rights'. -"Raiyat having khunt katti rights" means a raiyat in occupation of, or having any subsisting title to, land reclaimed from jungle by the original founders of the village or their descendants in the male line, when such raiyat is a member of the family which rounded the village or a descendant in the male line of any member of such family:
Provided that no raiyat shall be deemed to have khunt katti 479 rights in any land unless he and all his predecessors-in-title have held such land or obtained a title thereto by virtue of inheri- tance from the original founders of the vil- lage.
(2) Nothing in this Act shall prejudicially affect the rights of any person who has law- fully acquired a title to a khunt kattidari tenancy before the commencement of this Act.
8. Meaning of Mundan Khunt-khattidar. - "Mundari khuntkattidar" means a Mundari who has acquired a right to hold jungle land for the purpose of bringing suitable portions thereof under cultivation by himself or by male members of his family, and includes-
(a) the heirs male in the line of any such Mundari, when they are in possession of such land or have any subsisting title thereto; and
(b) as regards any portions of such land which have remained continuously in the possession of any such Mundari and his descendants in the male line, such descendants."
