{
    "act_title": "THE CENTRAL PROVINCES LAND-REVENUE ACT, 1881",
    "act_slug": "central-provinces-land-revenue-act-1881",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "section": {
        "number": "49",
        "title": "Section 49. Assessment to whom to be offered",
        "chapter": null,
        "content": "The assessment of every mahal shall be offered to the\nentire proprietary body of such mahal: provided that, when superior and inferior proprietary rights\nco-exist in the same mahal, the Settlement-officer may, subject to such rules as the Chief Commissioner\nmay make in this behalf, determine whether the assessment shall be offered to the superior or to the\ninferior proprietors.\n\nSubject to such rules as the Chief Commissioner may make in this behalf, the Settlement-officer\nmay determine the manner and proportion in which the proprietary profits of the mahal shall be allotted\nbetween the superior and the inferior proprietors.\n\nWhen a proprietor has mortgaged his rights in any mahal, and the mortgagee has entered into\npossession, such mortgagee, so long as he is in possession, shall, for the purposes of this section, stand\nin the place of the mortgagor.",
        "footnote": "",
        "is_definition": false,
        "sort_order": 760
    },
    "prev_section": "48",
    "next_section": "50"
}