Act Number: 17

Act Name: The Punjab Land-Revenue Act, 1887

Year: 1887

Enactment Date: 1887-09-23

Long Title: An Act to amend and declare the Land-revenue Law of the Punjab.

Ministry: Ministry of Rural Development

Department: Department of Land Resources

Section 67: Processes for recovery of arrears.
    Subject to the other provisions of this Act, an arrear of land-revenue may be recovered by any one or more of the following processes, namely: —
        (a) by service of writ of demand on the defaulter;
        (b) by arrest and detention of his person;
        (c) by distress and sale of his movable property and uncut or ungathered crops;
        (d) by transfer of the holding in respect of which the arrear is due;
        (e) by attachment of the estate or holding in respect of which the arrear is due;
        (f) by annulment of the assessment of that estate or holding;
        (g) by sale of that estate or holding;
        (h) by proceeding against other immovable property of the defaulter.
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