Section 3:
Taluqdars to have heritable and transferable rights in their estates.
Every Taluqdar with
whom a summary settlement of the Government revenue was made between the first day of April 1858
and the tenth day of October 1859, or to whom, before the passing of this Act and subsequently to the
first day of April 1858, a Taluqdari sanad has been granted,
Shall be deemed to have thereby acquired a permanent, heritable and transferable right in the estate
comprising the villages and lands named in the list attached to the agreement or kabuliyat executed by
such Taluqdar when such settlement was made,
or which may have been or may be decreed to him by the Court of an officer engaged in making the
first regular settlement of the provinces of Oudh, such decree not having been appealed from within the
time limited for appealing against it, or, if appealed from, having been affirmed,
Subject to certain conditions. ---Subject to all the conditions affecting the Taluqdar contained in the
orders passed by the Governor General of India on the tenth and nineteenth days of October 1859 and republished in the first schedule hereto annexed, and subject also to all the conditions contained in the
sanad under which the estate is held.