that by this document the Zemindar granted both varams. The words 'Melvaram' and 'Kudivaram' seem to be properly used ... fixed rent, it would seem that that Is not necessarily the melvaram. In such a case, the melvaram is said to be the proportionate amount
valu-
able consideration from a person owning the kudivaram but
not the melvaram, provided that the landholder has retained
the kudivaram ever since ... inam villages in respect
of which the original grant conferred only the melvaram
right on a person not owning the kudivaram thereof alone
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became
Lost
Grant-When presumption of Lost Grant arises-Whether grant is
melvaram or both varams --Right of Archakas-Whether Archakas
can claim remuneration ... plea that the title of the deity was confined
only to melvaram in the plaint-schedule lands and that they
had title to the Kudivarani
shall consider later. But where the grant is only of the melvaram, I do not see how a Court can refuse to treat ... when the grant by the zamindar to the inamdar comprises both the melvaram and kudivaram, on a permanent kattubadi so as to confer
presumption is that the grant is only the grant of the Melvaram right. The grant of the Melvaram right means that the grantee ... receive the Melvaram revenue from the peasant proprietors who are already in the enjoyment of the cultivated lands in the village and that, as regards
that there was a presumption that the grant is both of the melvaram and the kudivaram, as the initial presumption was settled by the definition ... that such grant was of the kudivaram as well as of the melvaram is properly deducible from the decision in Suryanarayanna v. Patanna
that a grant in favour of an inamdar was of the melvaram
only, applied only in cases which arose before the Amending ... share received by him as rent, which is
called "melvaram". "Kudivaram" has acquired a secondary
meaning, it means the cultivator
Estates Land Act the landholder being entitled only to melvaram in the village. The village of Karungalur formed part of the Tanjore Palace Estate ... their occupation and at a sale held by the Official Receiver, the melvaram interest of the landholder, the Junior Prince, in their holdings was purchased
plaint alleges that the grant consisted of both melvaram and kudivaam of the village and that originally rent was paid in kind on the varam ... lands as he pleases. Secondly, it is contended that, if the melvaram alone vests in the plaintiff, then the act of the Court of Wards
that it was only subsequently that they obtained by grant the melvaram interest from the Zamindar. It was argued that, when a kudivaramdar gets ... transfer or otherwise the melvaram interest in the land, the kudivaramdar does not lose his kudivaram interest thereby, and the persons who were in occupation
