Act 11 of 1859

The Bengal Land Revenue Sales Act, 1859

An Act to improve the law relating to sales of Land for arrears of Revenue in the Lower Provinces under the Bengal Presidency.

  • Ministry of Rural Development
  • Department of Land Resources
  • Enacted 1859-05-04
  • 62 sections
SectionTitle
1 Laws repealed.Read
2 What is an arrear of revenue.Read
3 Latest day of payment.Read
4 In Sylhet, personal property of defaulters may in the first instance be distrained and sold.Read
5 Proviso in the case of certain descriptions of arrears.Read
6 Notifications of sale to be issued, and no tender after latest day of payment to stop the sale.Read
7 Notice to ryots, &.Read
8 Claims against Government held by a defaulter not to invalidate a sale.Read
9 Deposits receivable from persons not proprietors.Read
10 Separation of shares held in common, by the opening of a separate account.Read
11 Separation of shares consisting of specific portions of land, by the opening of a separate account.Read
12 If objection be made, parties to be referred to the Civil Court.Read
13 Sale of separate shares.Read
14 Entire estate may be sold under certain conditions.Read
15 Deposit for the protection of an estate from sale.Read
16 Withdrawal of the deposit.Read
17 Estates under Court of Wards or attachment.Read
18 Estates may be specially exempted from sale.Read
19 Sales where to be made.Read
20 Adjournment of sales.Read
21 Order of selling.Read
22 Deposit on account of purchase money.Read
23 Full payment of purchase money.Read
24 Re-sale.Read
25 Appeals.Read
26 Annulment of sale in special cases.Read
27 Sales when final.Read
28 Certificate of sales.Read
29 Delivery of possession.Read
30 Liability of purchaser.Read
31 Application of purchase money.Read
32 Notification of annulment of sale.Read
33 Jurisdiction of Civil Courts in suits to annul sales.Read
34 Effects of annulment by decree of Court of sales under this Act.Read
35 If sale annulled purchase money to be refunded.Read
36 Suit brought to oust a purchaser on the ground that the purchase was made for another person, to be dismissen. Read
37 Rights of a purchaser of a permanently settled estate sold for its own arrears.Read
38 Registration of talookdaree tenurs created after settlement and held for terms of years.Read
39 Common and special registry.Read
40 Application for registry.Read
41 Procedure on application for common registry.Read
42 Procedure on application for special registry.Read
43 Registration of leases of certain lands.Read
44 Registration of old tenures.Read
45 Time for application for registry of tenures and farms.Read
46 Expenses of measurement, survey, or local enquiry.Read
47 Civil Court not competent to order entry in the special register.Read
48 Suit for the cancelment of the registry of a tenure or farm.Read
49 Proceedings of Revenue Authorities in the registration of tenures, &c.Read
50 Effect of entry in the special register.Read
51 Protection of talookdaree tenures pending enquity, in case of sale of parent estate for arrears of revenue.Read
52 Rights of a purchaser of an estate not permanently settled sold for its own arrears.Read
53 Rights of a purchaser being a sharer in any estate.Read
54 Rights of purchasers of shares of estate.Read
55 Recovery of arrears due to defaulters.Read
56 Punishment for contempt.Read
57 Default in making deposit to be considered a contempt.Read
58 Government may purchase at a sale.Read
59 Fees and charges demandable by Collector.Read
60 Regulations VII. 1822 and IX. 1825 to be in force in certain estates.Read
61 Interpretation.Read
62 Application and commencement of this Act.Read
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