Act Number: 11

Act Name: The Bengal Land Revenue Sales Act, 1859

Year: 1859

Enactment Date: 1859-05-04

Long Title: An Act to improve the law relating to sales of Land for arrears of Revenue in the Lower Provinces under the Bengal Presidency.

Ministry: Ministry of Rural Development

Department: Department of Land Resources

Section 12: If objection be made, parties to be referred to the Civil Court.
    If any recorded proprietor of the estate, whether the same be held in common tenancy or otherwise, object that the applicant has no right to the share claimed by him, or that his interest in the estate is less or other than that claimed by him, or if the application be in respect of a specific portion of the land of an estate, that the amount of sudder jumma stated by the applicant to have been heretofore paid on account of such portion of land, is not the amount which has been recognized by the other sharers as the jumma thereof, the Collector shall refer the parties to the Civil Court, and shall suspend proceedings until the question at issue is judicially determined.
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