(1) "revenue officer". - "revenue officer" means every officer of any rank whatsoever appointed under any of the provisions of this Act, and employed in or about the business of the land revenue or of the surveys, assessment, accounts, or records connected therewith [and for the purposes of sections 25 and 26 includes village-officer appointed or officiating under any of the provisions of the Bombay Hereditary Offices Act or the Matadars Act, 1887] ;
(2) "Survey Officer". - "Survey officer" means an officer appointed under, or in the manner provided by section 18 [***] ;
[(3) "Survey settlement". - "Survey settlement" includes a settlement made under the provisions of Chapter VIIIA] ;
(4) "land". - "Land" includes benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth, and also shares in or charges on, the revenue or rent of villages, or other defined portion of territory;
(5) "estate". - "estate" means any interest in lands and the aggregate of such interests vested in a person or aggregate of persons capable of holding the same;
(6) "survey number". - "survey number" means a portion of land of which the area and [assessment] are separately entered, under an indicative number in the [land records] [***] ;
(7) "sub-division of a survey number". - [Sub-division of a survey number" means a portion of a survey number of which the area and assessment are separately entered in the land records under an indicative number subordinate to that of the survey number of which it is a portion;]
[(8) "chavdi". - "chavdi" means in any village in which there is no chavdi, such place as the Collector may direct shall be deemed to be the chavdi for the purposes of this Act;]
(9) "building site". - "building site" means a portion of land held for building purposes, whether any building be actually erected thereupon or not, and includes the open ground or court-yard enclosed by, or adjacent to, any building erected thereupon;
(10) "boundary mark". - "boundary mark" means any erection, whether of earth, stone, or other material, and also any hedge, [unploughed ridge, or] strip of ground, or other object whether natural or artificial, set up, employed or specified by a survey officer, or other revenue officer having authority in that behalf, in order to designate the boundary of any division of land;
[(11) "to hold land", "land holder" or "holder". - "to hold land" or to be a "landholder" or "holder" of land means to be lawfully in possession of land, whether such possession is actual or not] ;
[(12) "holding". - "holding" means a portion of land held by a holder] ;
[(13) "superior holder" "inferior holder".-"superior holder"] means a land entitled to receive rent or land revenue from other landholders (hereinafter called "inferior holders") whether he is accountable or not for such rent or land revenue, or any part thereof, to [the [State] Government] :
[(14) "tenant". - "tenant"] means a lessee, whether holding under an instrument, or under an oral agreement, and includes a mortgagee of a tenant's rights with possession; but does not include a lessee holding directly under the [Government] ;
[(15) "land lord". - "landlord" means a lessor] ;
[(16) "occupant". - "occupant" means a holder in actual possession of unalienatcd land, other than a tenant: provided that where the holder in actual possession is tenant, the landlord or superior landlord, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be the occupant;]
[(17) "occupy". - "occupy" means a portion of land held by an occupant;]
[(18) "to occupancy land". - "to occupancy land" means to possess or take possession of land] ;
[(19) "occupation" "alienated". - "occupation" means possession] ;
(20) "alienated". - "alienated" means transferred in so far as the rights of [the [State] Government] to payment of the rent or land revenue are concerned, wholly or partially, to the ownership of any person;
[(21) "village" includes a town or city an all the land belonging to a village, town or city] ;
(22) "revenue year" "year". - the words "revenue year" or "year" means the period from, and exclusive of, the thirty-first July of one calendar year until and inclusive of, the thirty-first July in the next calendar year;
(23) [Definition of "section"] Rep. by Bombay Ill of 1886.
(24) [Definition of "this Chapter"] Rep. by Bombay Ill of 1886.
[(25) "Joint holders" "Joint occupants". - The term "joint holders", or "joint occupants", means holders or occupants who hold land as co-sharers, whether as co-sharers in a family undivided, according to Hindu law or otherwise, and whose shares are not divided by metes and bounds; and where land is held by joint holders or joint occupants, "holder" or "occupants", as the case may be, means all of the joint holders or joint occupants;]
[(26) "Land records". - "land records" means records maintained under the provisions of, or for the purposes of, this Act;]
[(27) "certified copy" "certified extract". - "certified copy" or "certified extract" means a copy or extract, as the case may be, certified in the manner prescribed by section 76 (I of 1872) of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872;]
[(27A) In this Act, where there is any reference to any other enactment or a provision thereof, such enactment or provision shall not merely by reason of such reference be deemed to extend to the Kutch area of the State of Gujarat but if there be any law corresponding to such enactment or provision in force in the said area, the reference to the enactment or provision as aforesaid shall include a reference to such corresponding law.]
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Chapter II
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[4. Chief controlling authority in revenue matters.
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Section 3 • The Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879
3. Interpretation section.
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Section 3
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but does not include a lessee holding directly under the [Government] ;\n[(15) \"land lord\". - \"landlord\" means a lessor] ;\n[(16) \"occupant\". - \"occupant\" means a holder in actual possession of unalienatcd land, other than a tenant: provided that where the holder in actual possession is tenant, the landlord or superior landlord, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be the occupant;]\n[(17) \"occupy\". - \"occupy\" means a portion of land held by an occupant;]\n[(18) \"to occupancy land\". - \"to occupancy land\" means to possess or take possession of land] ;\n[(19) \"occupation\" \"alienated\". - \"occupation\" means possession] ;\n(20) \"alienated\". - \"alienated\" means transferred in so far as the rights of [the [State] Government] to payment of the rent or land revenue are concerned, wholly or partially, to the ownership of any person;\n[(21) \"village\" includes a town or city an all the land belonging to a village, town or city] ;\n(22) \"revenue year\" \"year\". - the words \"revenue year\" or \"year\" means the period from, and exclusive of, the thirty-first July of one calendar year until and inclusive of, the thirty-first July in the next calendar year;\n(23) [Definition of \"section\"] Rep. by Bombay Ill of 1886.\n(24) [Definition of \"this Chapter\"] Rep. by Bombay Ill of 1886.\n[(25) \"Joint holders\" \"Joint occupants\". - The term \"joint holders\", or \"joint occupants\", means holders or occupants who hold land as co-sharers, whether as co-sharers in a family undivided, according to Hindu law or otherwise, and whose shares are not divided by metes and bounds; 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