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 43: Commissioner may confirm or modify partition, subject to appeal to Board of Revenue ; andmay direct division by lot, under certain circumstances.
    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.
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