The Tripura Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act,1960
Section 133. Definitions
In this part,-
(a) “Estate” means lands included under one entry in any of the general registers of revenue-paying and revenue-free lands and includes-
(i) Revenue-free lands not entered in any register, and
(ii) A part of, or a share in, an estate;
(b) “Homestead” means a swelling house together with any courtyard, compound, garden, or outhouse and includes any out-buildings used for purposes connected with agriculture and any family graveyard, library, office, guesthouse, grain store, latrines, boundary walls, tanks, wells or places of worship appertaining to such dwelling house;
(c) “Intermediary” means a person who holds in an estate the right, title or interest of a talukdar and includes-
(i) A person who holds land either revenue-free or at a concessional rate, and
(ii) A tenure holder;
(d) “Tenant” means a person who cultivates or holds the land of an intermediary under an agreement, express or implied, on condition of paying therefor rent in cash or in kind or delivering a share of the produce and includes a person who cultivates or holds land of an intermediary under the system generally known as “bhag”, “adhi” or “barga”; and the term “sub-tenant” shall be construed accordingly;
(e) “Tenure holder” means a person who has acquired from an intermediary the right to hold lands for the purpose of collecting rents or bringing them under cultivation by establishing tenants thereon.
