Sevuga Pandia Thevar, hereinafter called the Zamindar, was the Zamindar of the erstwhile Estate of Seithur, an impartible Estate, in Ramanathapuram District in the State ... Estate and it continued to be so in the hands of the Zamindar's father, Sundaradoss Thevar. In the year 1895, the said Sundaradoss
made to
Nattuvar, and realise the dues through the instrumentality
of the Zamindar. The policy was implemented by including
the shrotiem in the Tirumazhy zamindari ... transferring
the Government's ultimate reversionary rights to the
Zamindar. The result was that the shrotriem tenure in the
hands of the Nature continued
descendant of a Jagirdar.
Certain disputes between the Jagirdar and the
Zamindars in the district had been settled in 1837
by a compromise between ... this arrangement the
collections from the Jagir became payable by the
Zamindars direct to the Government and the Jagirdar
and his successors no longer remained
Permanent Settlement Regulation 25 of 1802, which dealt with
the tenure of zamindars in their estates. This Regulation
was passed on July ... service, in money, or in kind, and
whether paid to rajahs, jageerdars, zamindars,
polygars, motahdars, shrotriemdars, inamdars
or Government Officers, such as tahsildars,
amildars, aumeens
passed
on 26th January 1951 but the right of the Zamindars vested
in the State only with effect from 1st July 1952. Also both
State Government had applied for reopening of the objection
cases and the Zamindar had asked for certain documents to
prove that the State Government ... claim of
privilege was allowed by the Objection -Officer. The
Zamindar had thereupon filed the application to challenge
the claim of privilege
Iyer J., was held to be too
wide in Abubucker Lebbai v. Zamindar of Ettayapuram.(2)
Rajamannar C.J., who delivered judgment of the Court
Court of
the Subordinate Judge, Lucknow against Nawab Mohammad Ali
Khan Qazilbash Zamindar, Aliabad Estate, in Uttar Pradesh.
From time to time execution applications were ... filed by the
decree holder against the Zamindar, but nothing was
recovered. Rani Manraj Koer died on October 1, 1941 and the
appellant was brought
Bahadur Rai Pratap
Chand who died on January 23, 1901, was the Zamindar of
this Estate. After his death, his widow Rani Gomti Bibi
succeeded
leading to the appeal, in brief, are that the respondent, an ex-Zamindar, was assessed to agricultural income-tax in the assessment year