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been defined on the field individually, the term Bhai-chara Mukammal was
made applicable and to those where land had not been partitioned and was
held as Shamlat the term Bhai-chara Ghair-Mukammal continued to be
applied.

Pati-dari
The term Pati-dari according to Mayne “applies when holdings are all in
severalty and each share manages his own portion of land. But the extent of
the share is determined by ancestral right as derived from a common
ancestor and is capable of being modified from time to time upon this
principle. This system agrees with Bhai-chara in as much as each owner
holds his share in severalty. But it differs from it in as much as the extent of
holding is according to the ancestral right and not according to the
possession held by him at the time of constitution of the revenue estate as in
Bhai-chara.” The Pati-dari tenure was very rare and existed in few villages
only.
Raiyat-wari
There were large number of chaks which had been carved out of the state
land or TDA land. In those chaks the land was held on tenancy basis from
the state or TDA with security fully guaranteed and practiced. The land was
held either under the TDA Act by the peasant proprietors under proprietor
scheme or given under Sheep Breeding Scheme or sold by TDA under Fixed
Price Scheme or Open Auction Scheme. There were other chaks where lands
had been granted under Grow More Food Campaign or Reclamation Scheme.
The ownership of common land or shamlat vested in the state or TDA and
not in individual community. The occupant enjoyed heritable rights which
placed him practically on the same footings as the owners. The land had been
granted either on long leases or on condition to purchase after sometime.
Adhlapi
Adhlapi was a system of contract under which a proprietor allowed another
person to sink a well in his land on payment of a fee and to bring the land
under cultivation. He thereafter appropriated the land as proprietor of his
share of land brought under cultivation. This term also covered a proprietor
who assigned his land to someone else for planting a garden.
Lichh
If an inferior proprietor cultivated through tenants, he received a grain fee
which was called Lichh on the Indus and Kasur on the Chenab. The rate
varied with locality and in consequence of contract, but it was almost
invariably one-seventeenth of the gross produce and was known as lichh solh
satari.
Mundhimar, Butemar and Charhayat Tenants
1. Those who had, by clearing the jungle and by bringing land under
cultivation, acquired a permanent right to cultivate, were called Mundhimar

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