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Mahsul Khor
It often occured that an inferior proprietor, from indolence or inability to keep
accounts and manage for himself, agreed with some third person, usually a
village shopkeeper, that the latter should receive the mahsul, pay the
Government revenue out of it and keep the profit or bear the loss. Such a
person was called a Mahsulkhor. This arrangement was very common before
the first regular settlement, but gradually died out.
Lichhain

Lichhain meant a cultivator who tilled his land with borrowed bullocks and
paid the owner of the bullocks half of the rahm, or cultivator's share.
Anwahnda
As stated earlier, Anwahnda literally meant "without working”. It implied
share of the produce which a person connected with a land received without
working, or forewent because he had not done work, which by custom was
incumbent upon him.
Lichh Khuti
Lichh in its ordinary sense meant the due of the inferior proprietor, and was
synonymous with kasur as already described. But lichh also meant the
interest due on a mortgage of land when the mortgage continued in
cultivating possession, whether it was paid in grain or cash. Another kind of
lichh was valwin lichh, i.e. returned lichh, which was also called Khuti when
land was mortgaged to a Muslim and the conditions of the mortgage were
that the mortgagee should cultivate the land, and pay a small share of the
produce to the mortgager. It was the share which was called valwin lichh or
Khuti. The use of lichh to mean interest, and the practice of valwin lichh, were
devices of Muslims to evade the charge of receiving interest.
Lekha Mukhi
Lekha mukhi was the name of a kind of usufructuary mortgage in use. A
debtor used to make over his land to a creditor until the debt was paid from
the produce of the land, or the debtor retained the cultivation and agreed to
pay the proprietor's share to the creditor. In both cases, the creditor charged
the interest of debt and expenses against the debtor, and credited him with
the produce of the land or with the proprietor's share until the debt was
liquidated.

LAND REVENUE SYSTEM
In the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent the state has always claimed a share of
the produce of the land from the persons in whom it recognized a permanent
right to occupy and till it or arrange for its cultivation. It was a time honoured
as well as recognized customary law of the country that a ruler had always a
right to share the income of the land occupied and held by the cultivator,
and that it was the first charge upon the land.

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