Act 12 of 1841

The Bengal Land Revenue Sales Act, 1841

AN Act for amending the Bengal Code in regard to Sales of Land for Arrears of Revenue.

  • Ministry of Home Affairs
  • Department of States
  • Enacted 1841-07-19
  • 35 sections
SectionTitle
1 Regulations rescinded.Read
2 Interest and Penalty abolished.Read
3 Days fixed for sale.Read
4 Exception in unsettled Provinces and Benares.Read
5 Definition of an arrear.Read
6 All Estates in arrear to be said.Read
7 Claims in abatement and set off.Read
8 Exceptions.Read
9 Payment by non-proprietors.Read
10 Wards’, Estates and Minors, Attached by a Revenue Officer, Attached by a Court.Read
11 Exemption from sale, Proviso.Read
12 Sale.Read
13 Adjournment.Read
14 Order of sale.Read
15 Deposit on purchase.Read
16 Balance of purchase money.Read
17 Rents stopped after notice for sale.Read
18 Appeal.Read
19 Government may restore Estate.Read
20 Sale when to be final.Read
21 Certificate of Title.Read
22 Benamee purchase.Read
23 Notice of annualment.Read
24 Purchase liable for Mesne Revenue.Read
25 Grounds and conditions of reversal by a Civil Court, Proviso.Read
26 Refund on reversal of sale.Read
27 Enhancement of rents in Bengal, & c.Read
28 Under-tenures elsewhere.Read
29 Local Government may reserve all under tenures.Read
30 Purchase by a recorded or unrecorded proprietor of copartner, &C.Read
31 Arrears of rent.Read
32 Contempt.Read
33 Default.Read
34 Operation of Act.Read
35 Date of effect.Read
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