Section 20
When land has not been absolutely sold, or has been otherwise dealt with.
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.
If the land shall
have been sold subject to any condition reservation, or shall not have been sold, but shall have been
otherwise dealt with on account of the 1[the State Government[, and the Court shall be of opinion that the
claim to such land, or the objection of an objector, is established, the Court shall award the claimant or
objector to receive such sum, in respect of his interest in such land, as shall be awarded in that behalf
under the provisions of 3Act VI of 1857 (for the acquisition of lands for public purposes).
and thereupon the State Government shall proceed under the said Act to obtain an award of the value
of such interest.