230 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, [June, 1906, 
speaking the owner of the crop, died before cultivating, and so it 
is far from just to collect revenue from his heirs, even though they 
may have got something from him by way of bequest; for the 
[true] owner of the land is the king, and the owner of the crop, 
7.e., the deceased [ryot] died before cultivating, and his heirs 
have not got anything or crop that may be a ground for {[ demand- 
ing] revenue, so, nothing should be collected from them. 
Twelfth.—Concerning fiwed assessments: If the owner gives 
his land in lease or loan, and the lessee or borrower cultivates it, 
take the revenue from the owner. If the latter plants gardens, 
take the revenue from the latter. But if a man after getting hold 
duce witnesses, take the revenue from the owner. In cases of 
mortgage (rihan), act accdrding to the orders applicable to cases 
of u . If the mortgagee has engaged in cultivation with- 
out the fee of the mortgager, [121,b] [exact the revenue 
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neither of them. If the usurper denies [the usu i 
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the owner has no witness, take the revenue from the owne 
18 one construction. The other is (ii) “if the owner has witnesses, 
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the former],” because if the mortgagee engaged in cultivation 
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arn 8 consent, he ought to pay the revenue, 
nd alone, and not the right to cultivate it, was mortgaged. 
d.] 
Thirteenth—About lands under fixed rev - If aman 
his Kharayi land — or fiwed revenue : a on 
then, if the land ’ which is cultivated, in the course of the y 
Beeson, gets enough time during the rest of the year 
the bignd there is none to hinder him, collect the revenue from 
thea =i otherwise from the seller, If it yields two crops, an® 
as gathered in one and the buyer the other, then divide 
