Section 21:
Certificate of Title.
And it is hereby enacted, that immediately upon a sale becoming final and
conclusive, the Collector or other Officer as aforesaid, shall give to the purchaser a Certificate of title in the
following form:
I certify that A. B. has purchased at Public Auction under Act XII, of 1841, Mehal C, and that his
purchase has taken effect on and since the ---day of ---(being the date of sale.)
(Signed) D. E., Collector.
And the said certificate shall be deemed in any Court of Justice sufficient evidence of the title to the estate
sold being vested in the person or persons named form the date specified : and the Collector shall also notify such transfer by written proclamation in his own Cutcherry, and in those of the Moonsiff and Darogah of
the jurisdictions within which any part of the estate sold shall be situated, and also at the Cutcherry of the
Malgoozar of the estate or on some conspicuous place on the estate; and shall apply the purchase money
first to the liquidation of all arrears due upon the day of sale, or upon the day of the original sale, if the sale
finally consummated be a re-sale; and secondly, to the liquidation of all outstanding demands debited to
the Muhal in the Public accounts of district, holdings the residue, if any, in deposit on account of the late
recorded proprietor or proprietors of the estate sold, to be paid to their receipt on demand in the manner
following ; to wit, in shares proportioned to their recorded interest in the estate sold, if such distinction of
shares were recorded, or if not, then as an aggregate sum to the whole body of proprietors upon their joint
receipt. Provided that, if prior to payment of any surplus that may remain of the purchase money after
liquidation of all Government arrears and dues to the proprietor of the estate sold, or his representative, the
same may be claimed by creditors in satisfaction of debts due by him to them, or by any one creditor, such
surplus shall not be payable to any such claimant, nor shall it be withheld from the proprietor by attachment,
except under precept, and in satisfaction of decrees of Court for such debts. And if the balance of purchase
money have in any such case been paid away in liquidation of the proprietors just debts by order of any
Court, and a decree shall afterwards pass for annulling the sale, the proprietor shall not be restored to
possession until the amount so paid away be returned by him with interest.