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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "agricultural labourer" means a person who follows any one or more of the following agricultural occupations in the capacity of a labourer on hire or exchange, whether paid in cash or in kind or partly in cash and partly in kind:- (i) farming including cultivation and tillage of soil; (ii) dairy farming; (iii)production, cultivation, growing and harvesting of any horticultural commodity; (iv) raising of livestock, bees or poultry; and (v) any practice performed on a farm as incidental to or in conjunction with farm operations (including any forestry or timbering operations) and preparation for market and delivery to storage or to market or to carriage for transportation of farm products; (b) "agriculturist" means a person who earns his livelihood wholly or mainly, from:- (i) agriculture, or (ii) rent from agricultural land, in case he belongs to any of the categories of persons mentioned in clauses (a) to (h) of subsection (1) of Section 46 of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 (Rajasthan Act 3 of 1955); (c) "civil court" includes,- (i) any court exercising jurisdiction under the Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920 as adapted by the Rajasthan Adaptation of Central Laws Ordinance, 1950 (Ordinance No. IV of 1950); (ii) a Panchayat established under the Rajasthan Panchayat Act, 1953 (Rajasthan Act XXI of 1953) and a Nyaya Up-Samiti constituted under Section 27-B of the said Act; (iii) a court of small cause as defined in clause (i) of Section 4 of the Rajasthan Small Causes Courts Ordinance, 1950 (Ordinance No. VIII of 1950); (iv) a debt relief court established under Section 3 of the Rajasthan Relief of Agricultural Indebtedness Act, 1957 (Rajasthan Act 28 of 1957); and (v) any other court exercising appellate or revisional jurisdiction over the decisions of a civil court; (d) "co-operative society" means a society registered or deemed to be registered under the provisions of the Rajasthan Co-operative Societies Act, 1965 (Rajasthan Act 13 of 1965); (e) "debt" includes all liabilities owing to a creditor in cash or kind, secured or unsecured, payable under a decree or order of a civil court or otherwise and subsisting on the date of commencement of the Rajasthan Scheduled debtors (Moratorium on Debts) Ordinance, 1975 (Ordinance No. 21 of 1975) whether due or not due; (f) "marginal farmer" means an agriculturist who holds land as a Khatedar or Ghair Khatedar tenant and cultivates it personally and also a person who cultivates land as a sub-tenant or share cropper and which, in area, does not exceed the limits specified below:- (i) 0.33 hectare land under assured irrigation capable of growing at least two crops in a year; If such had been divided or partitioned as the case may be, on the date of the commencement of the rajasthan Scheduled Debtors (Moratorium on Debts) Ordinance, 1975 (Ordinance No 21 of 1975); and (g) words and expressions used, but not defined, in the Act, shall have the same meaning as is assigned to them in the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 (Rajasthan Act 3 of 1955).