Bengal Land Revenue Sales Act, 1859

Contents

• Section 1 – Laws repealed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 (preview)
• Section 7 – Notice to ryots, & (preview)
• Section 8 – Claims against Government held by a defaulter not to invalidate a sale (preview)
• Section 9 – Deposits receivable from persons not proprietors (preview)
• Section 10 – Separation of shares held in common, by the opening of a separate account (preview)
• Section 11 – Separation of shares consisting of specific portions of land, by the opening of a separate account (preview)
• Section 12 – If objection be made, parties to be referred to the Civil Court (preview)
• Section 13 – Sale of separate shares (preview)
• Section 14 – Entire estate may be sold under certain conditions (preview)
• Section 15 – Deposit for the protection of an estate from sale (preview)
• Section 16 – Withdrawal of the deposit (preview)
• Section 17 – Estates under Court of Wards or attachment (preview)
• Section 18 – Estates may be specially exempted from sale (preview)
• Section 19 – Sales where to be made (preview)
• Section 20 – Adjournment of sales (preview)
• Section 21 – Order of selling (preview)
• Section 22 – Deposit on account of purchase money (preview)
• Section 23 – Full payment of purchase money (preview)
• Section 24 – Re-sale (preview)
• Section 25 – Appeals (preview)
• Section 26 – Annulment of sale in special cases (preview)
• Section 27 – Sales when final (preview)
• Section 28 – Certificate of sales (preview)
• Section 29 – Delivery of possession (preview)
• Section 30 – Liability of purchaser (preview)
• Section 31 – Application of purchase money (preview)
• Section 32 – Notification of annulment of sale (preview)
• Section 33 – Jurisdiction of Civil Courts in suits to annul sales (preview)
• Section 34 – Effects of annulment by decree of Court of sales under this Act (preview)
• Section 35 – If sale annulled purchase money to be refunded (preview)
• Section 36 – Suit brought to oust a purchaser on the ground that the purchase was made for another person, to be dismissen (preview)
• Section 37 – Rights of a purchaser of a permanently settled estate sold for its own arrears (preview)
• Section 38 – Registration of talookdaree tenurs created after settlement and held for terms of years (preview)
• Section 39 – Common and special registry (preview)
• Section 40 – Application for registry (preview)
• Section 41 – Procedure on application for common registry (preview)
• Section 42 – Procedure on application for special registry (preview)
• Section 43 – Registration of leases of certain lands (preview)
• Section 44 – Registration of old tenures (preview)
• Section 45 – Time for application for registry of tenures and farms (preview)
• Section 46 – Expenses of measurement, survey, or local enquiry (preview)
• Section 47 – Civil Court not competent to order entry in the special register (preview)
• Section 48 – Suit for the cancelment of the registry of a tenure or farm (preview)
• Section 49 – Proceedings of Revenue Authorities in the registration of tenures, &c (preview)
• Section 50 – Effect of entry in the special register (preview)
• Section 51 – Protection of talookdaree tenures pending enquity, in case of sale of parent estate for arrears of revenue (preview)
• Section 52 – Rights of a purchaser of an estate not permanently settled sold for its own arrears (preview)
• Section 53 – Rights of a purchaser being a sharer in any estate (preview)
• Section 54 – Rights of purchasers of shares of estate (preview)
• Section 55 – Recovery of arrears due to defaulters (preview)
• Section 56 – Punishment for contempt (preview)
• Section 57 – Default in making deposit to be considered a contempt (preview)
• Section 58 – Government may purchase at a sale (preview)
• Section 59 – Fees and charges demandable by Collector (preview)
• Section 60 – Regulations VII. 1822 and IX. 1825 to be in force in certain estates (preview)
• Section 61 – Interpretation (preview)
• Section 62 – Application and commencement of this Act (preview)