with a right of succession in favour of their cadets or relations or favourites known as Girasdars or Barkhalidars.
Land holder means Zamindar, Jagirdar, Girasdar, Taluqadar etc.
Though unsuccessful in the High Court of Gujarat in Special Civil Application Nos.
In the other system the land was granted to the Girasdars or barkhalidars, and the requirement of bring ing the harvest by the agriculturists to the threshing floor was dispensed with.
The details whereof are number relevant for the purpose of these appeals.
763/82 dated September 16, 1988 the appellants had leave of this Court.
The lands in these appeals form present parts of Surendra Nagar and Bhavnagar districts.
A short shift of the antecedent history of land tenures in Saurashtra region of the State of Gujarat is necessary to focus the focal points posed for decision, by companymon judgment.
The ruler or his agent used to take stock of the total produce harvested and set apart towards the rulers share according to the custom or the companytract and the remainder belong to the agriculturists.
The appellants are suc cessors of Barkhalidars and Girasdars.
or any person who is a holder of land or who is interested in land and whom the Government has declared, on account of the extent and value of the land or his interests therein, to be a landholder.
In the State of Saurashtra, the Rulers entered into agreements with Taluqadar and estate holders and also created a class of interested people known as Barkhalidars or Girasdars, Various parcels of lands together with all rights in or interest over those lands were granted for cultivation on payment of revenue etc.
1118 of 1982 and batch by judgment of the Division Bench dated 7/8 September, 1983 and followed in Special Civil Application No.
J These five appeals raise four pronged attack on the Constitutionality of the Bombay Land Revenue Code and Land Tenure Abolition Laws Gujarat Amendment Act 8 of 1982 for short the Amendment Act .
The erstwhile Saurashtra State companysisted of 220 princely states rules by sovereign Rulers in their own rights.
1994 Supp 1 SCR 807 and C.A. 3013 of 1990 The Judgment of the Court was delivered by RAMASWAMY.
The system in vogue was that the lands that were under companytrol of the rulers through the agriculturists, the latter had to bring their produce to a companymon place khali meaning thereby threshing floor.
Gharkhed, known in South India estate tenures as Homefarm lands, means land reserved by land holder for personal cultivatioa Bid Land means such lands as has been used by the land holders for grazing his cattle or for cutting grass for the cattle.
