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 conquerors, and NOT BY SUBJECTS CULTIVATING 



THE SOIL." 



" BUT, annual property is acquired by subjects 

 on payment of annual revenue : and the king- can- 

 not lawfully give, sell, or dispose of the land to 

 another for that year. But if the ag*reement be in 

 this form, f you shall enjoy it for years;' for as 

 many years as the property is granted, during* so 

 many years the king- should never give, sell, or dis- 

 pose of it to another. Yet if the subject pay not 

 the revenue, the grant, being* conditional, is annulled 

 by the breach of the condition ; and the king may 

 grant it to another." 



YAJNYAWALCYA. "AND the king* shall receive 

 a sixth part of unclaimed property occupied by any 

 other person.'' 



" SINCE the word King here/' says the Commen- 

 tator, u denotes lord of the soil ; and since the culti- 

 vator, being* owner of that land, is so far equal to 

 the king ; he would be entitled to the sixth part of 

 the unowned property occupied by him. The 

 answer is, the word king* may be explained lord of 

 the soil to exclude another king : but a royal pro- 

 perty is supposed in the use of the word : ' the culti- 



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vator has a subordinate usufructuary property, not \ 

 a royal property : and SKI CBISHNA TERCALANCARA 

 thinks there may be, in the same land, property of 

 various kinds, vesting in the king, the subject, and 

 so forth. It should not be objected, if that be the 

 case, why cannot the king give the land to another, 



