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6th Semester LLB Unitary - Land Laws Including Tenure and Tenancy System - Notes, Question Papers and Syllabus

August 10, 2025 ,

Land Laws Including Tenure and Tenancy System

Unit I

Indian Systems of Law and Relation in Real Property – Concept of Property and Constitutional Provisions – Articles 31 and 300 – Land Reforms, Basic Concept of Gandhian Philosophy – Land to the Tiller Policy – Indian Development and Socialistic Society – Land Reforms: Ideology and Practice.

Unit II

Land Acquisition – Public Purpose – Compensation and Remedies – Modern Economic Development and Importance of Real Property – Land Conservation – Land Utilisation.

Unit III

Protection of Tribal Land, Forest Land, Wet Land etc.

Unit IV

Land Reforms Legislation – Fixity of Tenure, Resumption, Restoration – Nature of Tenant’s Rights – Purchase of Landlord’s Right by Cultivate Tenant – Prohibition for Future Tenancies – Kudikidappu Rights and Liabilities – Restrictions on Ownership and Possession for Land in Excess of Ceiling Areas – Rural and Urban Utilisation and Land Development – Conservation of Government Lands.

Unit V

Element of Environment and Land Laws - Protection of Tribal Land, Forest Land, Wetlands, Agricultural Land, Lands of Ecological Significance – Rural and Urban Land Utilisation and Land Development.

Suggested Statutes:

  • Land Reforms Act, 1963

  • Land Acquisition Act, 2003

  • Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976

  • Land Conservancy Act, 1957

  • The Kerala Restriction on Transfer by and Restoration of Lands to Scheduled Tribes Act, 1999

  • The Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act, 2008

  • The Kerala Land Utilisation Order, 1967

  • The Kerala Land Development Act, 1964

  • The Kerala Protection of River Banks and Regulation of Removal of Sand Act, 2001

Suggested Readings:

  • Sugathan - Land Laws of Kerala

  • Sri. George Johnson and Dominic Johnson - Laws of Land in Kerala

  • Dr. N. Maheswara Swami - Land Laws Under the Constitution of India

  • A Gangadharan - Law of Land Reforms in Kerala

  • D.K. Basu - Constitution of India

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