The Rajasthan Pre-emption Act, 1966
The Rajasthan Pre-emption Act, 1966
The Rajasthan Pre-emption Act, 1966, regulates the legal privilege of buying a property before anyone else. The law applies to buyers, sellers, co-owners, and neighbors sharing common boundaries or pathways within the state. It matters because it allows connected property owners to block outsiders from purchasing adjoining or joint land by matching the sale price. By requiring official notifications, establishing strict payment timelines, and setting parameters for court challenges, this legislation protects the rights of existing landowners and preserves established community boundaries, ensuring local property transitions remain orderly, fair, transparent, and firmly within the control of the people directly affected.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Right of pre-emption defined
- 4. Cases in which right of pre-emption accrues
- 5. Cases in which right of pre-emption does not accrue
- 6. Persons to whom right of pre-emption accrues
- 7. Power to exclude
- 8. Notice to pre-emptors
- 9. Loss of right of pre-emption on transfer
- 10. Loss of right of pre-emption on foreclosure
- 11. Suit to enforce right of pre-emption
- 12. Consolidation of suits
- 13. Decree to fix time for payment
- 14. Effect of non-payment
- 15. Effect of loss of right of pre-emption prior to decree
- 16. Associating in suit co-plaintiff with inferior rights
- 17. Joint purchase by persons one of whom is liable to pre-emption
- 18. Survival of right of suit on death of plaintiff
- 19. Transfer of property to pre-emptor or acquisition of right by original transferee prior to suit
- 20. Date on which pre-emptor's right accrues
- 21. Special provision for limitation
- 22. Saving of rights previously accrued
- 23. Abolition of other rights of pre-emption
- 24. Repeal
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