Bengal Land Revenue Sales Act, 1859

The Bengal Land Revenue Sales Act, 1859

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Act ID:	185911
Act Number:	11
Enactment Date:	1859-05-04
Act Year:	1859
Short Title:	The Bengal Land Revenue Sales Act, 1859
Long Title:	An Act to improve the law relating to sales of Land for arrears of Revenue in the Lower Provinces under the Bengal Presidency.
Ministry:	Ministry of Rural Development
Department:	Department of Land Resources


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Section 1. Laws repealed.
Section 2. What is an arrear of revenue.
Section 3. Latest day of payment.
Section 4. In Sylhet, personal property of defaulters may in the first instance be distrained and sold.
Section 5. Proviso in the case of certain descriptions of arrears.
Section 6. Notifications of sale to be issued, and no tender after latest day of payment to stop the sale.
Section 7. Notice to ryots, &.
Section 8. Claims against Government held by a defaulter not to invalidate a sale.
Section 9. Deposits receivable from persons not proprietors.
Section 10. Separation of shares held in common, by the opening of a separate account.
Section 11. Separation of shares consisting of specific portions of land, by the opening of a separate account.
Section 12. If objection be made, parties to be referred to the Civil Court.
Section 13. Sale of separate shares.
Section 14. Entire estate may be sold under certain conditions.
Section 15. Deposit for the protection of an estate from sale.
Section 16. Withdrawal of the deposit.
Section 17. Estates under Court of Wards or attachment.
Section 18. Estates may be specially exempted from sale.
Section 19. Sales where to be made.
Section 20. Adjournment of sales.
Section 21. Order of selling.
Section 22. Deposit on account of purchase money.
Section 23. Full payment of purchase money.
Section 24. Re-sale.
Section 25. Appeals.
Section 26. Annulment of sale in special cases.
Section 27. Sales when final.
Section 28. Certificate of sales.
Section 29. Delivery of possession.
Section 30. Liability of purchaser.
Section 31. Application of purchase money.
Section 32. Notification of annulment of sale.
Section 33. Jurisdiction of Civil Courts in suits to annul sales.
Section 34. Effects of annulment by decree of Court of sales under this Act.
Section 35. If sale annulled purchase money to be refunded.
Section 36. Suit brought to oust a purchaser on the ground that the purchase was made for another person, to be dismissen.
Section 37. Rights of a purchaser of a permanently settled estate sold for its own arrears.
Section 38. Registration of talookdaree tenurs created after settlement and held for terms of years.
Section 39. Common and special registry.
Section 40. Application for registry.
Section 41. Procedure on application for common registry.
Section 42. Procedure on application for special registry.
Section 43. Registration of leases of certain lands.
Section 44. Registration of old tenures.
Section 45. Time for application for registry of tenures and farms.
Section 46. Expenses of measurement, survey, or local enquiry.
Section 47. Civil Court not competent to order entry in the special register.
Section 48. Suit for the cancelment of the registry of a tenure or farm.
Section 49. Proceedings of Revenue Authorities in the registration of tenures, &c.
Section 50. Effect of entry in the special register.
Section 51. Protection of talookdaree tenures pending enquity, in case of sale of parent estate for arrears of revenue.
Section 52. Rights of a purchaser of an estate not permanently settled sold for its own arrears.
Section 53. Rights of a purchaser being a sharer in any estate.
Section 54. Rights of purchasers of shares of estate.
Section 55. Recovery of arrears due to defaulters.
Section 56. Punishment for contempt.
Section 57. Default in making deposit to be considered a contempt.
Section 58. Government may purchase at a sale.
Section 59. Fees and charges demandable by Collector.
Section 60. Regulations VII. 1822 and IX. 1825 to be in force in certain estates.
Section 61. Interpretation.
Section 62. Application and commencement of this Act.

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