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you consider fit to take care of i Whosoever makes jt 
arable must be recognised as_ the owner of the tract and 
articles of ‘awdat (?), do not issue any order that may hinder the 
‘audat in the land; and as for the gain from the land, Jeti 
sowing, etc.; and an no es let anyone take possession o it, and re 
cognise none as its o 
1 an entire ! priser of waste land has been transferred for any 
a contrary state of things is brought about by a 
different cause, then regard the land as belonging to the man up 
to the time till when it was in his possession, and do not give 
possession of it to anybody e 
[Commentary, 116, b : na the fifth clause it has been written : 
“Tf the owner of a desert tract be present, entrust it to pm 
to cultivation ; recognise him as its owner, do not wrest it rad 
him,—if there is no probability of ‘audat in it,” and other things. 
Here the word ‘audat has two meanings : (1) ) that the land is likely 
to contain mines, and (ii) that the [original] owner may return to 
it. The second alternative which has been stated before, is clearly 
evident hare > Mb makes a land fit for soe reson should 
be recognised as its owner.” It means that, as with the permission 
of the ruler he Baleryktes a waste u nproductive fail and benefits 
the State, therefore he has a claim to the land based on his services. 
ence the imperial order runs: “ Whosoever makes a land fit for 
cultivation should be reco as its owner, and the land should 
not be wrested from him.’ Then. it is evident that none else can 
have any right to the land. “As for the gain from the land, 
etc.” —7.e., 1 i 
things. The reason is that this land had been paying no rent 
before, and therefore the man who has reclaimed it and none else 
it. 
And if a tract of waste land, etc.”—7.e., if a tract of waste 
and pire erin to pay revenue, then the man who first owned i 
an whom it was transferred to the former, has a right to the 
price of the produce of the transferred land up to to the time when it 
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ots may “not be dines and for no reason exceed half [the dumig ts 
oven oven though the land d may be capable of paying more. Where 
1 rms yd entire, undivided. 
