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 53: Rights of a purchaser being a sharer in any estate.
    Excepting sharers in estates under butwarrah who may have saved their shares from sale under Sections XXXIII and XXXIV Regulation XIX. 1814, and sharers with whom the Collector, under Sections X and Xl of this Act, has opened separate accounts, any recorded or unrecorded proprietor or co-partner, who may purchase the estate of which he is proprietor or co-partner; or who by re-purchase or otherwise may recover possession of the said estate, after it has been sold for arrears under this Act; and likewise any purchaser of an estate sold for arrears or demands other than those accruing upon itself; shall by such purchase acquire the estate subject to all its encumbrances existing at the time of sale and shall not acquire any rights in respect to under-tenants or ryots, with were not possessed by the previous proprietor at the time of the sale of the said estate.
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