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 28: Applications to dispossess grantees of land exempt from revenue.
    So much of Section X Regulation XIX. 1793, Section X Regulation XLI. 1795, Section VI Regulation XXXI. 1803, Section XXI Regulation VIII. 1805, and Section XXIV Regulation XII. 1805, as authorizes and requires proprietors and farmers of estates and dependent talooks, in cases in which grant holding land exempt from the payment of revenue have been made subsequent to the dates specified in the said Sections, of their own authority to collect the terms of such land, and to dispossess the grantees of the proprietary right in the land and to re-annex it to the estate or talook in which it may be situate, is repealed; 'and any proprietor or farmer who may desire to assess any such land or to dispossess any such grantee shall make app1ication to the Collector, and application shall be dealt with as a suit under the provisions of this Act. Every such suit shall be instituted within the period of twelve years from the time when the title of the person Claiming the right to assess the land or dispossess the grantee, or of Borne person claiming under him, first accrued. If such period has already elapsed, or will elapse, or within two years from the date of the passing of this Act, such suit may be brought at any time within two years from such date.
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