U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1951

In a civil suit concerning 0.7 acres of land covered by the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1951, the defendant objected that the suit was barred under Section 331 of the Act. The trial court and the appellate court rejected the objection, and the High Court dismissed the second appeal in limine. The def…

The widow Jivani, after the death of her husband Bahadur Singh (the last male holder of tenancy rights), claimed to have created a joint tenancy with Jwala Singh under Section 59 of the U.P. Tenancy Act, 1939. The appellants, heirs of the original tenant, challenged the decree, alleging it was collusive and fraudulent …

The appeal concerned a Mitakshara coparcenary property that the appellants claimed had become self‑acquired after a lease (patta) was allegedly granted by the village Zamindar under the Oudh Rent Act, 1886. The respondents contended that the land remained ancestral joint‑family property and that any lease did not dives…

The appellant, representing the estate of Jagan Singh, sought a permanent injunction to prevent Dhanwanti, the widow of the testator, from selling a parcel of bhumidhari land that had been bequeathed to her with a restriction limiting her rights to her lifetime. The lower courts held that the restriction was invalid un…

The appellant, Viswanath (deceased) by LRs, sought ejectment of the respondent who occupied land under a mortgage executed by Hanuman Singh, the brother‑in‑law of a minor, before the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 came into force. The Assistant Collector and Board of Revenue held the mortgage void …

The Supreme Court considered a suit under Section 202 of the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1951 for possession of land on payment of a mortgage money. The mortgage in question was a usufructuary mortgage of an occupancy holding executed in 1869 when the Recovery of Rents (Bengal) Act, 1859 was in force…

The case concerned a suit land in the former Banaras State that had been granted rent‑free (Krishnarpan) and later mortgaged by the mortgagors, who subsequently sold one‑sixth of the land to the mortgagees and the rest to other purchasers. After the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act was applied to …