LawgistThe Ajmer Tenancy and Land Records Act
153Grounds of abatement of fixed money rent
The fixed money rent or the bighori, determined under section 151, of an occupancy, an exproprietary of a hereditary tenant shall be liable to abatement on one or more of the following grounds:--
(a) that the rent payable by the tenant is substantially greater than the rent calculated at the sanctioned rates appropriate to him; or
(b) that the productive power of the land held by the tenant has decreased by any cause beyond the control of the tenant during the currency of the present rent; or
(c) in case of fixed money rent, that the area of his holding has been decreased by diluvion, or by the taking up of land for a public purpose, or for a work of public utility.
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PART III.—Commutation, abatement, enhancement, and determination of rent
- 151 Commutation of rent from kind to cash
- 152 Commutation of rent from cash to kind
- 153 Grounds of abatement of fixed money rent
- 154 Ground of enhancement of fixed money rent
- 155 Order for determination, commutation or variation of rent, when to take effect
- 156 Joinder of parties in cases relating to variation of rent
- 157 Determination of rent on partial ejectment
- 158 Rent, how calculated for commutation, variation or determination
- 159 Meaning of "substantial" in certain sections
- 160 Basis of variation of rent in certain cases
- 161 Period for which rent is not liable to modification
- 162 Applications for variation of rent, by whom to be entertained
