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The Exemptions from Land-Revenue (No.2) Act, 1863

Tax186325 sections

This Act deals with claims to hold land free of land revenue (inam or exempt land) in the Bombay area. The Collector can call on a holder to prove their title to the exemption, and a holder can demand a formal inquiry and adjudication. The claimant must prove their title, though they may rely on evidence in Government records. The Act sets out when long, uninterrupted enjoyment of an exemption is accepted as title, how adoptions are treated, and lets officers enter land to measure and assess it. Many of its original sections have been repealed.

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  1. 1. Repealed]
  2. 2. Act XII of 1873.
  3. 7. Repealed] Repealed.
  4. 8. On proof of adjudication of title, holder exempt from quit-rent and from further inquiry into title
  5. 9. Collector may serve notice on holder calling on him to state whether he is willing to accept settlement or demands formal inquiry into title
  6. 10. Conduct of inquiry, when claimed
  7. 11. When holders demand trial and adjudication, deposits to be made and security given
  8. 12. Inquiry by whom to be held
  9. 13. Steps to be taken by claimant demanding inquiry
  10. 14. Burden of proof of title on claimant demanding inquiry
  11. 15. Claimant allowed benefit of evidence in Government records in custody of public officer
  12. 16. Trying authority not bound to admit in evidence certain sanads
  13. 17. Code of Civil Procedure applied to service of summons on, and attendance and examination of, witnesses
  14. 22. Conditions on which admitted prescribed title to continue to be recognized
  15. 23. Prescriptive title when not admitted
  16. 24. Sanad, etc., of prescriptive enjoyment not sufficient title in so far as exemption annulled by order issued by present or former Government, etc
  17. 25. Adoptions when not admitted
  18. 26. Application of sections 20 to
  19. 27. Pending proceedings]
  20. 28. Act XII of 1878.
  21. 29. Bar of suits against Government officers]
  22. 30. Act X of 1876.
  23. 31. Power to enter lands to measure or assess same
  24. 32. Interpretation-clause
  25. I. LIST OF OFFICERS WHO, UNDER FORMER GOVERNMENTS, HAD POWER TO CONFER GRANTS EXEMPTING LANDS WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY FROM THE PAYMENT OF PUBLIC REVENUE

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