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 153: No appeal from any decree of Collector for money below 100 Rupees unless the decision involve some question of right to enhance rents or some question relating to a title to land.
    In suits under Clauses 2, 4, and 7 of Section XXIII and under Section XXIV of this Act, tried and decided by a Collector, if the amount sued for or the value of the property claimed does not exceed one hundred Rupees, the judgment of the Collector shall be final, and not open to revision or appeal except as hereinafter provided, unless in any such suit a question of right to enchance or otherwise vary the rent of a ryot or tenant, or any question relating to a title to land, or to some interest in land as between parties having conflicting claims thereto, has been determined by the judgment, in which case the judgment shall be open to appeal in the manner provided in Sections CLX and CLXI of this Act.
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