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About this act
- Jurisdiction
- Central
- Enactment date
- 1898-10-21
- Sections available
- 100
Commencement information from the source
21-10-1898
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1Short title, extent and commencement.→2Definitions.→3Classes of tenants.→4Presumption as to amount of rent payable.→5Date from which order fixing rent operates.→6Time for payment of rents.→7Rents payable to a number of landlords.→8Power to deposit rent in certain cases with Revenue officer.→9Effect of depositing rent.→10Penalty for levy of anything in excess of rent by landlord.→11Presumption as to payments by tenant to landlord.→12Penalty for refusing receipt or giving defective receipt.→13Enhancement of rent when productive power of holding increased by landlord.→14Reduction of rent when effect of improvement ceases.→15Power to alter rent when holding is increased, diminished or deteriorated.→16Power to alter rent in case of new assessment.→17Commutation of rent payable in kind.→18Remission and suspension of rent consequent on like treatment of land-revenue.→19Commission for dividing or estimating crops.→20Appointment of assessors, etc.→21Remedy for error in division.→22Procedure when crop has been estimated or appraised.→23Definition of “produce of a holding.→24Power of landlord, by notice, to prohibit removal of produce.→25Effect of instituting suit for rent while notice is in force.→26Right to reap, etc., produce not affected.→27Content and service of notice; time for which it remains in force.→28Procedure when produce is under attachment.→29Conflict between rights of superior and inferior landlord.→30Penalty for illegal distraint by landlord, and for illegal removal of produce.→31Right to make improvements.→32Liability to pay to tenant on ejectment compensation for improvements.→33Assessment of compensation.→34Avoidance of provisions barring right to make, or be compensated for, improvements.→35Surrender of holdings.→36Surrender of occupancy-tenant’s holding.→37Tenant taking thika or farm.→38Provisions regarding tenant-right not applicable to tenant of land in reserved forests.→39Definition of absolute occupancy-tenant.→40Rents fixed for period of settlement.→41Right heritable and transferable after notice to landlord, who may claim to purchase.→42Absolute occupancy-tenant not liable to ejectement.→43Rent first charge on holding and holding saleable in execution of decree for arrears of rent.→44Definition of Occupancy-tenant.→45Accrual of occupancy-tenant-right in sir-land on transfer of right to occupy as proprietor.→46Devolution of occupancy-right.→47Rights of certain persons to apply to set aside transfers.→48Procedure on application.→49Rent of occupancy-tenant to be fixed at settlement.→50Fixation of rents during currency of settlement in Chanda, Nimar and Sambalpur.→51Enhancement during settlement in other districts.→52Grounds for ejectment.→53Tenant changing land in accordance with village-custom.→54Tenant changing land in other cases.→55Definition of “village-service-tenant”.→56Devolution and transfer of village-service-tenant’s right.→57Obligation of village-service-tenant to provide substitute.→58Grounds on which a village-service tenant may be ejected.→59Definition of sub-tenant.→60Tenure according to agreement.→61Power to declare sub-tenants in certain cases to have rights of ordinary tenants.→62Definition of “ordinary tenant”.→63Landlord’s right to recover rents determined at settlement as payable by ordinary tenants.→64Notice of enhancement to be served through Revenue-officer.→65Liability of tenant to ejectment in default of his agreeing to enhancement.→66Procedure in ejectment suit.→67Rent of ordinary tenant regulated by agreement.→68Fresh proceedings not to be taken for seven years.→69Grounds on which an ordinary tenant may be ejected.→70Devolution of ordinary tenancy.→71Right of certain persons to apply to set aside transfers.→72Procedure on application.→73Obligation of landlord to confer occupancy-rights on ordinary tenant.→74Power to direct that suits between landlords and tenants be entered in separate registers.→75Plaint in such suits.→76Legal Practitioners’ fees not allowed unless for special reasons.→77Set-off when allowed in suits for arrears.→78Procedure when ordinary tenant in suit pleads excessive rent.→79Tenants’ improvements how to be treated in fixing rents.→80Interest on arrears.→81No appeal in certain suits for arrears.→82Application for execution by sale of holding or by ejectment.→83Arrears decreed not to be on current year’s account.→84Procedure in execution by sale of holding.→85Procedure in execution by ejectment.→86Power of Court to deal with cases of drought or other calamity in suits for arrears.→87Relief against forfeitures.→88Rights of ejected tenants in respect of crops and land prepared for sowing.→89Payment by tenant for occupation of land under section 88.→90In suits for arrears all claims between landlord and tenant to be determined.→91Procedure when, on sale or ejectment, money is due by the land-lord to the tenant.→92Reinstatement of tenant illegally ejected.→93Applications to measure or ascertain condition of holdings.→94Limitation is suits under the Act.→95Jurisdiction of Civil Courts barred in certain cases.→96Procedure on applications to Revenue and Settlement Officers, and appeals from their orders.→97Jurisdiction of Civil Courts in suits between landlords and tenants.→98Recovery of fines and penalties.→99Power to Local Government to make rules.→100Repeals.→
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