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Land Laws · April/May 2022
April/May 2022 · Land Laws · Semester 4
FACULTY OF LAW
LL.B. (3 YDC) / LL.B. (3 YDC) (Honours) II - Year IV - Semester / B.A. LL.B. (5 YDC) IV - Year VIII - Semester
Examination, April / May 2022
Subject: LAW
PAPER - IV: LAND LAWS
Code: D-12589/N | Time: 3 Hours | Max. Marks: 80
PART - A (5 x 6 = 30 Marks) — Answer any FIVE of the following:
1. Meaning of Eminent Domain.
2. Doctrine of Bona Vacantia.
3. Zamindari Settlement.
4. Mahalwari System.
5. Land Acquisition.
6. IX Schedule of the Constitution.
7. Land Grabbing.
8. R.O.R.
PART - B (2 x 15 = 30 Marks) — Answer any TWO of the following:
9. Write a note on land reforms and protection of right to property under the Constitution of India.
10. Who are Intermediaries? Explain the land reforms related to laws aiming at abolition of the
intermediaries.
11. State the procedure to acquire private land for a public purpose as envisaged under the Land
Acquisition Act, 1894.
12. Examine the various rights of cultivator of land and when can the termination of tenancy be
effected?
PART - C (2 x 10 = 20 Marks) — Answer any TWO of the following:
13. State Government acquired an agricultural land belonging to A (who is a Zamindar) to construct
a hospital. A wants to challenge it in the court of law. Discuss its validity.
14. The Government of T.S. has given some area of land for lease situated in a scheduled area to A.
A, a tribal, objects to it. Decide.
15. A has 5 acres of agricultural land. Due to failure of rains, A could not do any agricultural work for
the last 5 years. A wants to declare it as a vacant land under the Urban Land Ceiling Act. Discuss.
16. In a scheduled area, a tribe sold his belonging land to a non-tribe. Is the sale valid?