The Bengal Land-Revenue Sales Act, 1859

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    "title": "The Bengal Land-Revenue Sales Act, 1859",
    "short_title": "The Bengal Land-Revenue Sales Act, 1859",
    "act_number": "(Act 11 of 1859)",
    "act_year": 1859,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
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    "description": "The Bengal Land-Revenue Sales Act, 1859",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Arrear of revenue.",
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            "sort_order": 0
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Latest day of payment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "4.",
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            "sort_order": 1
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Proviso as to certain descriptions of arrears.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Issue of notifications of sale.",
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            "content": "Tender after latest day of payment not to stop sale.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Notice to raiyats, etc.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Claims of defaulter against Government not to invalidate sale.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Deposits receivable from person not proprietors.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[10. Separation of shares held in common, by opening separate account.\n[11. Separation of shares consisting of specific portions of land by opening separate accounts.",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. If objection be made, parties to be referred to Civil Court.",
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            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Sale of separate shares.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Entire estate may be sold under certain conditions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[15. Deposit for protection of estate from sale.\n[16. Withdrawal of deposit.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Estate under attachment.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Power to exempt sale.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Proviso.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Sales, where to be made.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Adjournment of sales.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Order of selling.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Deposit on account of purchase-money.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Full payment of purchase money.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Re-sale.",
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            "content": "25.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Annulment of sale in special cases.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Sales when final.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Certificate of sales.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Delivery of possession.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Liability of purchaser.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Application of purchase-money.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Notification of annulment of sale.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Jurisdiction of Civil Courts in suits to annul sales.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Proviso.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Effects of annulment of sales by decree of Court.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. If sale annulled, purchase-money, to be refunded.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Dismissal of suit brought to oust purchaser on ground that purchase was made for another.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Rights of purchaser of permanently-settled estate sold for its own arrears.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Proviso.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Registration of certain tenures and farms.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Common and special registry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[40.] Application for registry.\n(1) the pargana or parganas in which the tenure is situated;\n(2) the nature of the tenure;\n(3) the name or names of the village or villages whereof the land is composed or wherein it is situate;\n(4) the area of the land comprised in the tenure, with its boundaries in complete detail;\n(5) the amount of rent payable annually for the tenure and whether the rent is fixed for a term of years or in perpetuity, and the duties, if any, required to be performed on account of it;\n(6) the date of the deed constituting the tenure, or the date when the tenure was created;\n(7) the name of the proprietor who created the tenure;\n(8) the name of the original holder of the tenure;\n(9) the name of the present possessor, and, if he be not the original holder, the mode in which he succeed to the tenure, whether by inheritance, gift, purchase or otherwise, and whether he holds jointly or solely.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Procedure on application for common registry.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Procedure on application for special registry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[43.] Registration of leases of certain lands.\n[44.] Registration of old tenures.\nProviso.\n45.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Expenses of measurement, survey or local inquiry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Civil Court not competent to order entry in special register.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Suit for concealment of registry of tenure or farm.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Proceedings of Revenue-authorities in registration of tenures, etc.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Effect of entry in special register.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Protection of talukdari tenures pending inquiry, in case of sale of parent estate for arrears of revenue.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Rights of purchaser of estate not permanently settled, sold for its own arrears.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Rights of purchaser being sharer in estate; and of purchaser of estate not sold for its own arrears.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Rights of purchasers of shares of estate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Recovery of arrears due to defaulters.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Punishment for contempt.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Default as to deposit a contempt.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. State Government may purchase at sale.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "59.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. Regulations 7, 1822 and 9, 1825, in force in certain estates.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 47
        },
        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. Interpretation.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 48
        },
        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Application of Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Schedule 'A'\n[Referred to in section 28 of this Act]\n[Referred to in section 28 of this Act]\n(Signed)                D. E.,\nCollector\nSpecification\nSpecification\n(If of an entire mahal)\n(If of a share of a mahal)\nSchedule B\nFees\nFees",
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            "sort_order": 49
        }
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "bh412",
        "Act Number": "(Act 11 of 1859)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1859",
        "Short Title": "The Bengal Land-Revenue Sales Act, 1859",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}