Act Number: 24

Act Name: The Oudh Taluqdar's Relief Act, 1870

Year: 1870

Enactment Date: 1870-09-07

Long Title: An Act to relieve from incumbrances the estates of Taluqdárs in Oudh.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 12: Restoration of taluqdar to his property.
    When all such debts and liabilities have been discharged,.
    or if, within six months after the publication of the order mentioned in section three, the Chief Commissioner thinks that the provisions of this Act should not continue to apply to the case of the taluqdár or his heir,.
    the taluqdár or his heir shall be restored to the possession and enjoyment of his immoveable property, or of such part thereof as has not been sold by the Manager under the power contained in section nineteen, but subject to the leases and mortgages (if any) granted and made by the Manager under the powers hereinafter contained.
    Revival of barred proceedings and debts.—Where the taluqdár or his heir is so restored under the circumstances mentioned in the second clause of this section, the proceedings, processes, executions and attachments mentioned in section three (so far as they relate to debts and liabilities not settled by the Manager), and the debts and liabilities barred by section eight, shall be revived, and any mortgagee dispossessed under section seventeen shall be reinstated unless his claim under the mortgage has been satisfied;
    and in calculating the periods of limitation applicable to such revived proceedings and to suits to recover and enforce such revived debts and liabilities, the time intervening between such restoration and the publication of the order mentioned in section three shall be excluded.
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