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OTHER CONDITIONS. 



A. — In Titles for Country Lands not exceeding 100 Acres 

 (Land Enactment, Part III). 



Lauds not exceeding' 100 acres in area, and not included 

 in any township or village, may be held either under grant 

 or by entry in the mukim register. "Mukim'' is the name 

 given to a sub-division of a district, and the register of each 

 mukim contains particulars of all alienated lands in that 

 mukim other than land held under grant or certificate of 

 title [Land Enactment, Section 31 (i)]. The entry in the 

 mukim register gives to the person recorded as owner a 

 permanent transmissible and transferable right, interest 

 and occupancy in his land (Land Enactment, Section 33). 

 Such right, however, is subject to review by the Collector 

 on the complaint of any person who claims to be entitled to 

 be registered as the owner. (Section 35.) 



Land held under Part III of the Enactment, whether 

 by grant or entry, is subject to the implied condition that 

 it is liable to forfeiture if it is abandoned for three con- 

 secutive years. (Section 34.) 



By "abandonment" is meant "the failure to use 



the land for the purpose for which it was alienated;" in the 

 absence of any special condition denoting the purpose, land 

 will be deemed to have been alienated for cultivation, and 

 be regarded as abandoned if it is not kept under cultivation 

 to the extent of one-fourth of its area. 



B. — Lands exceeding 100 Acres in Area. 



These lands must all be held under grant, and are sub- 

 ject to the same implied conditions and obligations as have 

 been mentioned before (p. 11). 



In the case of lands not exceeding 640 acres in extent, 

 the following additional conditions are implied: that (i) a 

 bona fide commencement of cultivation will be made within 

 twelve months from the date of the grant, and (ii) one- 

 fourth of the land will be cultivated within five years from 

 such date. The penalty for failure to observe these con- 

 ditions is re-entry on the land by Government and the re- 

 sumption of the portions not then cultivated: the grantee 

 may be allowed to retain such belts of jungle or plots of 

 land as may be necessary to protect existing cultivation, 

 and may also retain two acres in respect of each acre then 

 under cultivation. Where a grantee has duly fulfilled the 

 condition of cultivating one-fourth of the area, he is en- 

 titled to an endorsement on his grant to the effect that the 



