Section 19
If claim established, possession not to be given, but compensation.
The Waste-Lands (Claims) Act, 1863
About this Act
WHEREAS it is expedient to make special provision for the speedy adjudication of claims which may be preferred to waste lands proposed to be sold, or otherwise dealt with, on account of Government, and of objections taken to the sale or other disposition of such lands ; It is enacted as follows.
In any case in which the
land has been sold, if the Court shall be of opinion that the claim of the claimant is established, the Court
shall not award the claimant possession of the land in dispute; but shall order him to receive from
1[the State Government] Treasury, by way of compensation, a sum equal to the price at which the land
was sold, in addition to the costs of suit.