Act Number: 19

Act Name: The Partition of Revenue-paying Estates Act, 1863

Year: 1863

Enactment Date: 1863-03-10

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 39: Rule as to tanks, wells, water-courses, and embankments.
    Tanks, wells, water-courses, and embankments, shall be considered as attached to the land for the benefit of which they were originally made.
     In cases in which, from the extent, situation, or construction of such works, it shall be found necessary to continue them the joint property of the proprietors of two or more of the estates into which the estate may be divided, the paper of partition shall specify, as far as circumstances may admit, the extent to which the proprietors of each of such estates may make use of the same, and the proportion of the charges for repairs to be borne by them respectively.
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