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भूमिच्छिद्रन्याय (bhUmicchidranyAya)

 
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
bhūmicchidra-nyāya (IE 8-5
EI 30
CII 3, 4
HRS),
literally, ‘the maxim of the fallow land’
the principle of the
rent-free enjoyment of land by one who brings it under cultiva-
tion for the first time. See Ep. Ind., Vol XXIX, p. 86. The
maxim is based on the old custom of allowing a person, who
first brings a plot of fallow or jungle land under cultivation
for the first time, to enjoy it without paying rent. Bhūmi-
cchidra gradually came to mean ‘uncultivable land’. See
bhūmicchidrapidhāna-nyāya, avanirandhra-nyāya.