Act Number: 18

Act Name: The Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881

Year: 1881

Enactment Date: 1881-06-08

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Land-revenue and the powers of Revenue-officers in the Central Provinces.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 83: Suits to contest certain settlement decisions or entries.
    Any person deeming himself aggrieved by any decision under section seventy-eight, or by any decision of the Chief Settlement-officer in appeal therefrom or by any entry made in the record-of-rights as to any matter referred to in that section, may institute a suit in the Civil Court to have such decision set aside or such entry cancelled or amended:
     Provided as follows:--
     When any suit under this section is instituted for the cancellation or amendment of an entry, the Government, if it so desires, and all persons interested in the entry, shall be made parties to the suit:
     No persons by whom the record-of-rights was signed, and no persons claiming through or under them shall, without the previous sanction of the Chief Commissioner, institute any suit with a view to modify or set aside any entry relating to any matter mentioned in section seventy or section seventy-seven, clause (b), (c) or (d).
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