Acts in so far as
plantations and private forests are concerned.
`Private forest' as defined in Section 2 (f) of the
Vesting Act means ... game. The Forest Laws were applied to royal
forests and were designed to protect these rights. The
medieval forest law in England has now been
noticed above, the Private Forest Act was enacted to prevent the indiscriminate the destruction of Private Forest and Forest as defined under Section ... declared by the Committee to be forests besides the forests situated in estates as defined in the Tamil Nadu Estate Land
forest;
(ii) land which is part of a forest or lies within it or
was part of a forest or was lying within a forest ... that any reserved forest
shall cease to be reserved; or any forest land is used for non-forest
purpose; or any forest land is assigned
relating to forest, the
transit of forest produce, and duty leviable on timber and other
forest produce. Chapter-V of the Indian Forest ... forests vest in the State
Government and since both the expressions --'forest' as
well as 'private forest' --have been defined
private forest" means any land which immediately before the 10th day
of May, 1971, was a private forest as defined in the Kerala Private ... private forest"as per Sec.2(f) of the Private Forest Act
will not also satisfy the definition of "private forest
noticed above, the Private Forest Act was enacted to prevent the indiscriminate the destruction of Private Forest and Forest as defined under Section ... declared by the Committee to be forests besides the forests situated in estates as defined in the Tamil Nadu Estate Land
possession of respondent No. 1 as 'forest" and "private forest" as defined in the Act. The Tribunal also held that ... forest/private forest on 30th August, 1975. On the basis of evidence on record, it was held that it was not forest/private forest
forest rights and occupation in forest land in Forest Dwelling
Schedule Tribes & Other Traditional Forest Dwellers who have been
residing in such forests ... falling within any forest area and includes any Unclassified
Forest, Un-demarcated Forest, Existing or Deemed Forest, Protected
Forest, Reserve Forest, Sanctuaries and National Parks
attracted at all. Besides the 1975 Act first defines "forest" ( section 2 (c-1)) and then defines "private forests" separately ... private forest" not only means any forest which is not the property of government (as defined in Section 2 (c-i) but includes
Private Forest'--Held inapplicable to Kerala
Private Forests (Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971 :
The Madras Preservation of Private Forests Act, 1949--Object
of.
Statutory ... forest, even if there was subsequent re-
plantation. [408H; 409A-D]
1.2 The lands involved in this appeal were all forests
as defined
