Act Number: 10

Act Name: The Bengal Rent Act, 1859

Year: 1859

Enactment Date: 1859-04-29

Long Title: An Act to amend the law relating to the recovery of Rent in the Presidency of Fort Willian in Bengal.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 23: Cognizance of suits under this Act.
    1. All suits for the delivery of pottahs or kubooliyets, or for the determination of the rates of rent at which such pottahs or kubooliyets are to be delivered ;
    2. All suits for damages on account of the illegal exaction of rent or of any unauthorized cess or impost, or on account of the refusal of receipts for rent paid, or on account of the extortion of rent by confinement or other duress;
    3. All complaints of excessive demand of rent, and all claims to abatement of rent;
    4. All suits for arrears of rent due on account of land either kherajce or lakheraj, or on account of any rights of pasturage, forest-rights, fisheries, or the like;
    5. All suits to eject any ryot or to cancel any lease on account of the non-payment of arrears of rent or on account of a breach of the conditions of any contract by which a ryot may be liable to ejectment or a lease may be liable to be cancelled;
    6. All suits to recover the occupancy or possession of any land, farm, or tenure, from which a ryot, farmer, or tenant has beet illegally ejected by the person entitled to receive rent for the same;
    7. All suits arising out of the exercise of the power of distraint conferred on Zemindars and others by Sections CXII and CXIV of this Act, or out of any acts done under color of the exercise of the said power as hereinafter particularly provided;
shall be cognizable by the Collectors of land revenue and shall be instituted and tried under the provisions of this Act and, except in the way of appeal as provided in this Act, shall not be cognizable in any other Court or by any other Officer, or in any other manner.
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