Arable - Indian Laws - General

Word arable As per Oxford English Dictionary , Vol. I, page 423 as capable of being ploughed, fit for tillage and crop production (with reference to land) , In Palmer v. M Cormick (1890) 25 Ir 110 Mr. Justice Chatterton expressed the meaning thus at p. 119. Arable does not mean land actually ploughed up or in tillage, but land capable or fit to be so; and for aught I know this land, though properly designated arable in 1821, may even then have been in process of acquiring the character of ancient pasture, which process may have commenced, and been going on for some time . SADRUDDIN SULEMAN JHAVERI VERSUS J.H. PATWARDHAN AND ORS. - 1964 (7) TMI 59 - BOMBAY HIGH COURT