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Encyklopädie der Rechtswissenschaft (Bd. 2)

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Identifikator:: 1896404200

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Title:: Encyklopädie der Rechtswissenschaft

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Duncker & Humblot [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1904-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896404294

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236881

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Title:: Encyklopädie der Rechtswissenschaft

Volume count:: Bd. 2

Place of publication:: Leipzig [u.a.]

Publisher:: Duncker & Humblot [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1904

Scope:: 1184 S.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: IV. Öffentliches Recht

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 127 on in the Revenue Ministry. A few passages, however, from this work require notice. One is the seventh clause of the regulations which he issued (Tuzuk, 4) on his accession to the throne, to the effect that officials and assignees should not take peasants’ land into their own cultivation by force. We may infer from this that cases of the kind had occurred, and had given rise to scandal; in most parts of the Empire there was productive land to spare, but there would often be choice plots coveted for their productivity or situation, as Ahab coveted Naboth’s vineyard, and it is in accordance with what we know of Jahangir’s character that he should have condemned such conduct, though we cannot be confident that his orders were vigorously enforced. [n another passage! the Emperor, whose taste for choice fruit is notorious, states that fruit-trees were, and had always been, free of any demand ior revenue, and that a garden planted on cultivated land was forthwith exempted from assessment; but the language indicates, what is known from other sources, that a cess on fruit-trees was among the items of miscellaneous revenue which survived repeated prohibitions. The only definite innovation which Jahangir records? is the institution of the Grant-under-seal (dltamgha), which is of interest as constituting the nearest approach to land- ownership, in the modern sense, which appears during the Mogul period. The scope of such Grants was limited to the case where a deserving officer applied for a grant of his “home,” that is to say, of the village or pargana in which he was born: in this case the grant was to be made under a particular form of seal, and was not to be altered or resumed, so that, by contrast with the other tenures of the period, it may be regarded as permanent, though naturally an absolute Emperor could not be prevented from annulling it. This Grant-under-seal, it may be noted, was not an t Tuzuk, 252. The cess on fruit-trees is called sar-darakhsi; Akbar had remitted this impost (Ain, i. 3o1). ' Tuzuk, 10; Badshahnama, II. 409. At the opening of the British period claims to dltamgha-grants were not uncommon, but the designation had come to be used loosely during the disorders of the eighteenth century; thus the grant of the Diwini of Bengal to the East India Company was described as idltamgha (Aitchison’s Treaties (1892), i. 56), but it cannot possibly be brought within the original definition.

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