{"id":197944,"date":"1918-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1918-01-21T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-madura-etc-devastanam-vs-chena-kondama-naicken-on-22-january-1918"},"modified":"2015-11-27T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T10:22:00","slug":"the-madura-etc-devastanam-vs-chena-kondama-naicken-on-22-january-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-madura-etc-devastanam-vs-chena-kondama-naicken-on-22-january-1918","title":{"rendered":"The Madura Etc., Devastanam &#8230; vs Chena Kondama Naicken on 22 January, 1918"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">The Madura Etc., Devastanam &#8230; vs Chena Kondama Naicken on 22 January, 1918<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 47 Ind Cas 858<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: J Wallis, S Aiyar<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. Under Section 189(1) of the Madras Estates Land Act, jurisdiction is conferred upon the Collector to hear and determine, as a Revenue Court, the suits and applications specified in parts A and B of the Schedule to the Act, and there is a corresponding provision depriving the Civil Courts of jurisdiction in such matters. As regards Section 46, part B of the Schedule confers upon the Collector jurisdiction to dispose, as Revenue Court, of applications for settlement of rent of land for the purpose of Section 46 under the proviso to that section, and makes orders passed under that section appealable to the Court of the District Collector, if there is no dispute about the rate of rent under the proviso to Section 46(1), there is nothing in Section 189 or in the Schedule to oust the jurisdiction of the Civil Court or confer jurisdiction on the Collector as a Revenue Court; and even if there is such a dispute, jurisdiction is only conferred with respect to it.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. Under Section 46(3) the Collector may execute an instrument conferring a permanent right of occupancy upon the tenant, and the execution is to have the same effect as execution by the land-holder. The right to apply for a permanent right of occupancy is only conferred by the section on &#8220;a non-occupancy ryot&#8221;, and the power conferred upon the Collector to execute an instrument conferring it is subject to the same limitation. If the Collector purporting to act under the section, executes an instrument conferring occupancy right on a person who is not &#8220;a non-occupancy ryot&#8221;, he is acting ultra vires; and, as the matter is one which he is not authorised to dispose of as a Revenue Court under Section 189 read with the Schedule to the Act, the jurisdiction of the Civil Court is not ousted. The appeal must be allowed, the decrees reversed and the suit remanded for disposal according to law. Costs hitherto will abide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court The Madura Etc., Devastanam &#8230; vs Chena Kondama Naicken on 22 January, 1918 Equivalent citations: 47 Ind Cas 858 Bench: J Wallis, S Aiyar JUDGMENT 1. Under Section 189(1) of the Madras Estates Land Act, jurisdiction is conferred upon the Collector to hear and determine, as a Revenue Court, the suits and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Madura Etc., Devastanam ... vs Chena Kondama Naicken on 22 January, 1918 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-madura-etc-devastanam-vs-chena-kondama-naicken-on-22-january-1918\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Madura Etc., Devastanam ... vs Chena Kondama Naicken on 22 January, 1918 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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