The Chutia Nagpur Encumbered Estates Act, 1876
The Chutia Nagpur Encumbered Estates Act, 1876
The Chutia Nagpur Encumbered Estates Act, 1876 provides critical debt relief to heavily indebted landholders in Chutia Nagpur whose properties are burdened by mortgages and liabilities. It regulates the temporary transfer of an estate's management to a government-appointed Manager, who collects rents, provides maintenance for the owner’s family, and systematically settles outstanding debts using the estate's revenue, leases, or partial sales. This protective law matters because it shields struggling landholders from arrest and safeguards their property from civil court attachments and pending lawsuits. Once the debts are fully cleared, owners are safely restored to their property.
- 1. Short title.
- 2. Power to vest management of property in an officer appointed by Commissioner.
- 3. Effect of order.
- 4. Manager to receive rents and profits, and pay therefrom.
- 5. Notice to claimants against holder of property.
- 6. Claim to contain full particulars.
- 7. Debt not duly notified to be barred.
- 8. Determination of debts.
- 9. Power to inquire into consideration for leases.
- 10. Appeal to Deputy Commissioner.
- 11. Scheme for settlement of debts.
- 12. Restoration of owner to his property.
- 13. Power to call for further particulars.
- 14. Power to summon witnesses and compel production of documents.
- 15. Investigation to be deemed a judicial proceeding.
- 16. Manager to have powers of holder of estate.
- 17. Power to lease.
- 18. Power to raise money by mortgage or sale.
- 19. Power to make rules.
- 20. Power to appoint new Managers.
- 21. Managers to be public servants.
- 22. Bar of suits.
- 23. Saving of jurisdiction of Courts in Chutia Nagpur in respect of certain suits.
- 24. Act not to affect powers conferred by Bengal Act II of 1869.
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