Payment by tenants

Payment by tenants .- All payments on account of rent or profits actually due, made before attachment, to or on behalf of any landholder, by any person holding under him, shall be valid against the Government ; and all such payments made after attachment, or made before they were actually due, shall be null and void against the Government, who shall be entitled to recover as arrears of rent the full amount from the parties who made the payments leaving them to sue the defaulter in the ordinary courts of law.