Section 43
Commissioner may confirm or modify partition, subject to appeal to Board of Revenue ; andmay direct division by lot, under certain circumstances.
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.
The Commissioner shall either uphold the partition proposed by the Collector, or modify
the same. The decision of the Commissioner shall not be open to revision by the Civil Court, but shall
be subject to appeal to the Board of Revenue.
The Commissioner, before coming to a decision, may call for any additional papers, or direct any further inquiry that he shall consider necessary.
And may direct division by lot under certain circumstances.--He may also, if he think proper, direct that, when two or more of the estates into which it is proposed to divide the estate shall consist of the same proportions of the entire estate, the parties entitled thereto shall draw lots for the same before the Collector.
The Commissioner, before coming to a decision, may call for any additional papers, or direct any further inquiry that he shall consider necessary.
And may direct division by lot under certain circumstances.--He may also, if he think proper, direct that, when two or more of the estates into which it is proposed to divide the estate shall consist of the same proportions of the entire estate, the parties entitled thereto shall draw lots for the same before the Collector.