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Laws repealed and modified. | Read |
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Ryot entitled to a pottah. | Read |
| 3 |
Ryots holding land at fixed rates to receive pottahs. | Read |
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If rent of land be not changed for 20 years. | Read |
| 5 |
Ryots having right of occupancy but not holding at fixed rates, to receive pottahs. | Read |
| 6 |
Right of occupancy of ryot cultivating or holding land for 12 years. | Read |
| 7 |
Saving of terms of written contracts. | Read |
| 8 |
Pottahs to which ryots not having rights of occupancy are entitled. | Read |
| 9 |
Person granting pottah entitled to a counterpart engagement. | Read |
| 10 |
Exactions in excess of rent or receipt withheld. | Read |
| 11 |
Landholder not to compel the attendance of tenant for adjustment of rent or for any other purpose. | Read |
| 12 |
Damages for extorting payment of rent by duress. | Read |
| 13 |
Enhancement of rent of ryot holding without, or after expiry &c. of written engagement. | Read |
| 14 |
Mode of contesting enhancement of rent. | Read |
| 15 |
Dependent talookdar &c. holding land at fixed rent without change since permanent settlement not liable to enhancement of rent. | Read |
| 16 |
Rent of talookdar &c. not changed for twenty years to be prima facie evidence of occupancy at that rent since permanent settlement. | Read |
| 17 |
Grounds on which ryot having right of occupancy is liable to enhanced rent. | Read |
| 18 |
When ryot may claim abatement of rent. | Read |
| 19 |
Relinquishment of land by ryot after notice given. | Read |
| 20 |
What to be deemed an arear of rent under this Act. | Read |
| 21 |
Lialility of ryot to be ejected for arrear due. | Read |
| 22 |
Liability of farmer to have his lease cancelled for arrear adjudged due. | Read |
| 23 |
Cognizance of suits under this Act. | Read |
| 24 |
Suits by Zemindars against their agents for money or accounts. | Read |
| 25 |
Ejectment of cultivators, farmer, &c. by Zemindars. | Read |
| 26 |
Measurement of lands. | Read |
| 27 |
Registry of transfers of talooks, &c. | Read |
| 28 |
Applications to dispossess grantees of land exempt from revenue. | Read |
| 29 |
Suits by or against Surburakars or Tuhseeldars of estates held khas. | Read |
| 30 |
Time for commencement of suits generally. | Read |
| 31 |
Time for commencement of suits for grant of pottahs, &c. | Read |
| 32 |
Time for the commencement of suits for arrears of rent. | Read |
| 33 |
Time for the commencement of suits against agents for money, papers, or accounts. | Read |
| 34 |
Mode of instituting suits. Form of plaint or statement of claim. | Read |
| 35 |
Statement by whom to be presented. | Read |
| 36 |
Verification of statement. | Read |
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Statement of claim to be written on stamped paper. | Read |
| 38 |
Documentary evidence to be produced by plaintiff. | Read |
| 39 |
If plaintiff require production of document from defendant. | Read |
| 40 |
Form of plaint in suits for arrears of rent. | Read |
| 41 |
Form of plaint in suits for ejectment of ryot &c., or for recovery of occupancy or possession of land, &c. | Read |
| 42 |
Statement may be returned or allowed to be amended. | Read |
| 43 |
Issue of summons; personal attendance of defendant may be required. | Read |
| 44 |
The day to be specified in the summons how to be fixed. Defendant to be ordered to produce necessary documents, and to bring witnesses willing to attend without process. | Read |
| 45 |
Summons how to be served. | Read |
| 46 |
Endorsement by Nazir if summons has been personally served or not. | Read |
| 47 |
Execution of process in another District. | Read |
| 48 |
Cost of serving summons or warrant to be deposited in Court. | Read |
| 49 |
Warrant of arrest in what cases to be issued. | Read |
| 50 |
Procedure after arrest of defendant. | Read |
| 51 |
Procedure when defendant is brought before the Collector under warrant. | Read |
| 52 |
Procedure if warrant of arrest cannot be served upon the defendant. | Read |
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Compensation for arrest applied for without reasonable cause. | Read |
| 54 |
Consequence of neither party appearing on the day trail. | Read |
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If defendant only appear to dispute the demand, Collector shall pass judgment by default; but if defendant admit the claim, Collector shall decree upon such admission. Proviso. | Read |
| 56 |
If plaintiff only appear, Collector may proceed ex parte. | Read |
| 57 |
If defendant appear on day to which the case is postponed, Collector may allow him to be heard in answer to the suit | Read |
| 58 |
Revival, reversal, and alteration of decrees ex parte or by default. | Read |
| 59 |
On appearance of parties the parties to be examined by the Collector and may cross examine each other. | Read |
| 60 |
Examination of parties, &c. | Read |
| 61 |
Witnesses to be examined. | Read |
| 62 |
Documentary evidence to be produced by defendant. | Read |
| 63 |
After examination, Collector may make his decree it no further evidence is required. | Read |
| 64 |
Consequence of inability of agent to answer. | Read |
| 65 |
If necessary, Collector to record issue and to fix a day for hearing further evidence. | Read |
| 66 |
Parties shall produce their witnesses on the day of trial; or Collector, on application of either party, shall issue summons for the affordance of witness. | Read |
| 67 |
Rules regarding attendance examination &c., of witness. | Read |
| 68 |
Consequence of parties not appearing on the day fixed for the trial of any issue. | Read |
| 69 |
Suits instituted or defended by Naibs, Gomastahs, &c. | Read |
| 70 |
Personal attendance of plaintiff or defendant not required in certain cases. | Read |
| 71 |
Employment of authorized agents or mookhtars. | Read |
| 72 |
Collector may grant time or adjourn hearing. | Read |
| 73 |
Collector may cause local enquiry to be made. | Read |
| 74 |
Defendant may pay money into Court in satisfaction of the demand. | Read |
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No interest on deposits. | Read |
| 76 |
If on trial of suit for delivery of pottah, parties do not agree as to the time for which the pottah is granted, Collector to fix the time. | Read |
| 77 |
If in actions for rent a third person appear as claimant, he is to be made a party to the suit. | Read |
| 78 |
Suits for ejectment or cancelment of lease. | Read |
| 79 |
Judgment how to be pronounced. | Read |
| 80 |
If person required by the decree refuse to gant pottah, Collector may do so. | Read |
| 81 |
Refusal of person to execute kubooliyet as required by the decree. | Read |
| 82 |
Mode of executing decree for ejectment or re-instatement of ryot. | Read |
| 83 |
Mode of executing decree for cancelment of a lease or for ejectment or re-instatement of a farmer or tenant | Read |
| 84 |
In what case a judgment-debtor may be detained or imprisoned without issue of process of execution. | Read |
| 85 |
Liability of surety on failure to deliver judgment-debtor into custody. | Read |
| 86 |
Issue of process of execution. | Read |
| 87 |
Application for execution against moveable property. | Read |
| 88 |
How long warrant shall continue in force. | Read |
| 89 |
Second and successive warrants. | Read |
| 90 |
After one year execution not to issue without notice. | Read |
| 91 |
Execution not to issue against heir or representative of a deceased party without notice. | Read |
| 92 |
No process of execution to he issued three years after date of judgment. | Read |
| 93 |
Warrant against the person. | Read |
| 94 |
No person to be imprisoned a second time under same judgment. | Read |
| 95 |
Diet-money to be deposited at the time of issue of warrant. | Read |
| 96 |
Payment of diet-money in advance during imprisonment. | Read |
| 97 |
Diet-money to be costs in suit. | Read |
| 98 |
List of property to be prepared and proclamation of sale to be published, &c. | Read |
| 99 |
Custody and sale of moveable property taken in execution. | Read |
| 100 |
Collector may stay sale of moveable property seized if a third party claim any interest therein. | Read |
| 101 |
Collector to adjudicate such claims. | Read |
| 102 |
Claimant failing to establish his right liable to pay compensation to judgment creditor. | Read |
| 103 |
No appeal from order of Collector under the two last preceding Section. | Read |
| 104 |
Sale not vitiated by irregularity in publishing or conducting the same. | Read |
| 105 |
Sale of transferable tenures in execution of decrees for arrears of rent. | Read |
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If third party claim to be the lawful possessor of such under-tenure, Collector to stay the sale and to enquire into and adjudicate upon the claim | Read |
| 107 |
Mode of adjudicating such claims. | Read |
| 108 |
Executing of decrees given in favor of shares in undivided estates or tenures. | Read |
| 109 |
In all cases of decrees for money, if judgment cannot be satisfied by sale of debtor’s moveable property, execution may be had against his immoveable property | Read |
| 110 |
Mode of executing process if immoveable property be a house or other building. | Read |
| 111 |
Consequence of objection being offered before the sale of any immoveable property. | Read |
| 112 |
Produce of the land to be held hypothecated for the rent. | Read |
| 113 |
No distraint in certain cases. | Read |
| 114 |
Power of distraint to be exercised by managers under the Court of Wards, &c. | Read |
| 115 |
Standing crops and crops gathered but not stored liable to distraint. | Read |
| 116 |
Defaulter to be served with a written demand &c., before or at the time of distraint. | Read |
| 117 |
Distress to be proportionate to the arrear if not paid or tendered. | Read |
| 118 |
Standing crops &c., when attached, to be reaped and stored by the cultivator, or, if he neglect to do so, by the distrainer | Read |
| 119 |
Distrainer may apply for aid to the Collector upon occasion of resistance made or apprehend. | Read |
| 120 |
Persons empowered to distrain may give written authority to their servants to do so. | Read |
| 121 |
Distress to be withdrawn if defaulter tender payment of arrear and expenses of attachment prior to the day of sale | Read |
| 122 |
Application for sale. | Read |
| 123 |
Form of application. | Read |
| 124 |
Procedure by Civil Court Ameen &c. on receipt of application. | Read |
| 125 |
Ameea to suspend sale on receipt of Collector's certificate of the institution of a suit. | Read |
| 126 |
Suit to contest distrainer's demand before issue of notice of sale. | Read |
| 127 |
Distress to be withdrawn on receipt of Collector's certificate that the owner has executed a bond with security to pay amount of decree with interest and costs. | Read |
| 128 |
. On expiration of period fixed in the proclamation of sale, if institution of suit to contest distrainer’s demand have not been certified, sale may be proceeded with. | Read |
| 129 |
Place and manner of sale of distrained property. | Read |
| 130 |
If fair price he not offered, sale may be postponed to another day, and shall be then completed at whatever price may be offered. | Read |
| 131 |
Payment of purchase money. | Read |
| 132 |
Proceeds of sale. | Read |
| 133 |
Officers holding sales prohibited from purchasing. | Read |
| 134 |
All irregularities to be reported to the Collector. | Read |
| 135 |
Recovery of expenses if Ameen proceeds to place of sale and no sale takes place. | Read |
| 136 |
Proceedings of Civil Court Ameens &c. subject to revision and orders of Collectors. | Read |
| 137 |
Second proclamation of sale. | Read |
| 138 |
Procedure after institution of suit to contest distrainer's demand. | Read |
| 139 |
Any person, whose property has been distrained for arrear of rent alleged to be due from another, may institute a suit against the distrainer, &c. | Read |
| 140 |
Procedure if distrainer's right to distrain be disputed. | Read |
| 141 |
Persons prevented from suing in time to save their property from sale, may sue for damages. | Read |
| 142 |
Also persons aggrieved by any illegal act of distrainer. | Read |
| 143 |
Unlawful distraint. | Read |
| 144 |
Time for commencing suits for damages. | Read |
| 145 |
Resistance of distraint. | Read |
| 146 |
Service of process. | Read |
| 147 |
Resistance of process. | Read |
| 148 |
Collector competent to hold a Court in any part of his jurisdiction. | Read |
| 149 |
Agents or mookhtars. | Read |
| 150 |
Powers of Deputy Collectors. | Read |
| 151 |
Collectors and Deputy Collectors to be subject to direction and control of the Commissioners and the Boards of Revenue. | Read |
| 152 |
Time for presenting appeals from others. | Read |
| 153 |
No appeal from any decree of Collector for money below 100 Rupees unless the decision involve some question of right to enhance rents or some question relating to a title to land. | Read |
| 154 |
In suits not open to appeal, Collector may grant a re-hearing upon the discovery of new evidence, &c. | Read |
| 155 |
Appeal from decision of Deputy Collector. | Read |
| 156 |
Petition of appeal to be on stamp paper, &c. | Read |
| 157 |
Procedure in appeal. | Read |
| 158 |
Re-admission of appeal. | Read |
| 159 |
Judgment in appeal. | Read |
| 160 |
In what suits appeal to lie to Zillah Judge and in what to Sudden Court. | Read |
| 161 |
Rules regarding presentation and hearing of appeals. | Read |
| 162 |
Suits to be preferred in the Revenue Office of the District or Sub-division in which the greater part of the lands is situate | Read |
| 163 |
Except as above, Collector not to exercise jurisdiction in respect to land situate beyond his District | Read |
| 164 |
Deputy Collector entrusted with Police functions, not to exercise judicial powers under this Act. | Read |
| 165 |
What powers to be exercised by Assistants to Collectors. | Read |
| 166 |
Saving of rights of proprietors in respect of Putnee Talooks &c. under Regulation VIII. 1819. | Read |
| 167 |
Commencement of Act. | Read |
| 168 |
Interpretation. | Read |
