Section 35
Estates formed in course of partition to be as compact as possible.
The Partition of Revenue-paying Estates Act, 1863
About this Act
An Act to Consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Partition of Estates paying Revenue to Government in the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal.
It shall be the
duty of the Officer appointed to make the partition, so far as circumstances will admit, to take care
that the estates into which the estate is divided shall consist of contiguous mehals or villages.
Provided that, if the estate ordered to be divided shall not consist of a sufficient number of villages to admit of one or more entire village or villages being included in each estate, the partition of the village or villages of which the estate shall consist shall be made so as to render each estate as compact as possible.
Provided that, if the estate ordered to be divided shall not consist of a sufficient number of villages to admit of one or more entire village or villages being included in each estate, the partition of the village or villages of which the estate shall consist shall be made so as to render each estate as compact as possible.