Land Revenue Terms

3. Arrears of Land-Revenue - Land-revenue which remains

unpaid after the date on which it becomes payable.

4. Assessment Circle- Group of estates which in the opinion of

the Board of Revenue, sufficiently homogeneous to admit of a
common set of rates being used as a general guide in calculating
the land-revenue to be assessed upon them.
 Land Revenue Terminologies
• 5. Board of Revenue - The Board of Revenue established under
the Board of Revenue Act, 1967. (West Pakistan Act XI of
1957)

6.Boundary Mark - Any object or mark, whether natural or

artificial, which is set up, employed or specified by any
authorized Revenue Officer to designate the boundary of any
portion of land.

7. Commencement - the day/date on which this Act or any

provision thereof, comes into operation.
 Land Revenue Terms
• 8. Defaulter - Person liable for payment of land-revenue, and
includes a person who is responsible as surety for payment, do
not pay it on the date, they become defaulters.
9. Encumbrance – Burdens or charges upon or claim against
land, arising out of a private grant or contract.

10. Estate – Any area for which a separate record-of-rights

has been made; or which has been separately assessed to land-
revenue; or which the Board of Revenue, declare to be an
estate.
11. Holding - A share or portion of an estate held by one land-
owner or jointly by two or more land-owners.
 Land Revenue Terms
• 12. Irrigated Land - Land irrigated by a canal, tube well, well,
lift, spring, tank or by any other artificial means of irrigation

13. Unirrigated Land- land other than irrigated land, and

includes land fed by rains, floods, hill torrents, and uncultivable
or waste land.

16.Kanungo - supervising Tapedar.

 Land Revenue Terms

• 14.Landlord - a person under whom a tenant holds land,

and whom the tenant is, or a lessor. It has a special
significance and has been made to include a lessee or any
other person to whom, but for a contract, rent would be
payable as well as the predecessors and successors-in-
interest of such person.
• 15. Land Owner – a person whom a holding has been is
transferred or an estate or holding has been let in farm,
but exclude a tenant. All persons who are to pay land
revenue to Govt for the time being.
• The landlord leases his property. The landowner owns
property but does not necessarily lease it out.
 Land Revenue Terms
• 17. Land-Revenue – "Land-revenue assessed or assessable
under the Land Revenue Act, or under any other law for the
time being in force relating to land-revenue, and includes any
rates imposed on account of increase in the value of land due
to irrigation”.

18.Tenant - A person who holds land under another person,

and is, or but for a special contract would be, liable to pay rent
for that land to that other person, and includes the
predecessors and successors-in-interest of such person, but
does not include a mortgagee of the rights of a land-owner.

Or, A person who takes from Government a lease of

unoccupied land for the purpose of subletting it.
 Land Revenue Terms
• 19.Tenancy - a parcel of land held by a tenant under one lease or
one set of conditions.

20. Net Assets – The Profit after all ordinary expenses of

cultivation (including water rates ) but before payment of Land
Revenue and cess.

21. Patwari - Tapedar and a Special or Additional Tapedar.

 Land Revenue Terms

• 25. Rates and Cesses (Mehsul) - Primarily payable by land-

owners by the authority of Government; village officers’ cess ;
and any sum payable on account of village expenses.

26. Rent - Whatever is payable to a land-lord in money or kind

by a tenant on account of the use, but shall not include any cess,
or other contribution.

27. Revenue Court - Court constituted as such under the law

relating to tenancy as in force for the time being.

28. Revenue Officer -Having authority under this Act to

discharge the function of a Revenue Officer.
 Land Revenue Terms

29. Survey Mark - Any mark set up by the Department of

Survey of Pakistan.

30 . Survey Number/Khasra Number - A Portion of land of

which the area is separately entered under an indicative number
in the record-of-rights.
 Terms and Meanings
• Jagirdari:-Possession of 'Jagir'

Jagirs:-Land awarded by colonial officers on which Revenue

was not due

• KatchiAbadi:- Irregular Settlement

Khasra Girdavri:- Village Revenue Record

Lambardar:- Honorary Government-appointed person for

Revenue Collection and control of Village affairs
 Terms and Meanings
• Mahal:- Smallest Administrative Division of Land (In Punjab
And Nwfp) for Land Revenue Purposes; Village
Mukhtiarkar:- Town level Land Revenue Government
Official in Sindh
• Nambardar:-Landowner in villages in Punjab, appointed by
The Revenue Department as its Honorary representative;
responsible for collecting Land Revenue.
• Nambardari:- Having The Status Of A 'Nambardar'

Nawab:- Chief of 'Jagir' Or State

 Terms and Meanings
Pattidari:-Land on Claim
Patwar:-Low tier (lower than 'Tehsildar') Revenue Government
Employee In Punjab
Sardar:-Chief of Tribe
 Terms and Meanings
 Sardari:- Pertaining to Chief of Tribe

Shaamilat:-Land not individually owned, Communal Land or

Common Property

Tehsildar:- Town level Land Revenue Government Official

in Punjab

Zamindar:-Landlord

Zamindari:- Land held by a 'Zamindar'

 Aks-Shajra
• Aks-Shajra means image of a specific piece of
land/specific khasra number from the map/plan of an
estate or village defining its boundaries.
 Fard Malkiat
• Fard Malkiat also known as (Record of Rights/
Jama Bandi/Misal Haquiat/ Register Haqdaran-
e-Zameen) maintained for determination/record
of various types of rights in the immovable
property.
 Mutation (Intiqal)
• Mutation is a document containing an order by a
revenue officer; who must be at least an
Assistant Collector, whereby an entry in the
record of rights is to be altered, changed or
mutated in revenue record.
Tattima Registry
• Tattima means “supplementary” and Tattima
Registry means supplementary sale deed in
specified area.
Khasra
• Khasra is a piece of land with specific measurements
and a specific number.
 Khasra Garrdwari
• Register Kharsa Gardwari is a register
maintained for record of
possession/cultivation.
Survey
• A drawing or map showing the precise legal
boundaries of a property, the location of
improvements, easements, rights of way,
encroachments, and other physical features.
Mutation as title document
• No, mutation is not a title document.
TITLE IN IMMOVABLE PROPERTY

• Register Sale Deed (Registry /Baye-Nama) is a

document, which creates a title in the
immovable property.
 Conveyance Deed or Sale Deed
• Conveyance Deed or Sale Deed is a deed document
by which the title of property is conveyed by the
seller to the purchaser.
• Conveyance is the act of transferring ownership of
the property from a seller to the buyer.
• Deed document will help you ascertain whether the
property, which you are buying, is on land belonging
to any development authority, society, builder in
which the property is located, whichever the case
may be.
house documents or title deed property

• house documents or title deed documents from

office/department by which title of the house
was conferred or transferred.