Section 71:
Right of certain persons to apply to set aside transfers.
—(1) If an ordinary tenant transfers any
portion of his rights in any land in contravention of the provisions of the last foregoing section, any such
person as would be entitled to inherit his right in the holding in the event of his death without nearer heirs,
or the landlord from whom the tenant held the land, may, on application to a Revenue-officer made withintwo years from the date on which, in pursuance of the transfer, the tenant parted with possession of the
land, be placed in possession, subject, so far as the Revenue-officer may, in accordance with rules made
by the Local Government, determine, to his acceptance of the liabilities of the transferring tenant for
arrears of rent and for advances made by the landlord or other persons for the necessary expenses of
cultivation.
(2) As among several persons so entitled and being desirous of being placed in possession, the right to
be so placed shall accrue in the order in which such persons would have inherited the right of the tenant in
the subject of the transfer if the tenant had died failing any such persons, the right shall accrue to the
landlord.