Stay of execution of decrees and orders in certain cases

(1) No court shall, before the date on which the earliest deposit in pursuance of this Act is made in the office of the Tribunal, order or continue execution in respect of any decree or order passed against the principal or any other landholder of an inam estate against his interest in the inam estate or against his other immovable property or against his person by arrest and detention; and with effect on and from such date, execution in the cases aforesaid may be ordered or continued as specified in, and in accordance with, the provisions of section 60. (2) All proceedings for the execution of any decree or order by the arrest and detention in prison of the principal or any other land-holder of an inam estate pending on the notified date, shall stand dismissed and if on such date the principal or any other landholder is detained in prison in execution of any such decree or order, he shall be released forthwith. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, no principal or other land-holder of an inam estate shall, on or after the notified date and before the date on which the earliest deposit as aforesaid is made, sell, mortgage, lease, or otherwise assign or alienate any of his immovable property and any transaction of the nature hereby prohibited shall be void and inoperative and shall not confer or take away any right whatsoever from any party to the transaction. (4) (a) No claim or liability enforceable immediately before the notified date against the principal or any other land-holder of an inam estate or against any other person whose rights stand transferred to the Government in virtue of clause (b) of section 3 shall, on or after that date, be enforceable against the interests he had in the inam estate. (b) all such claims and liabilities shall, after the date on which the earliest deposit in pursuance of this Act is made in the office of the Tribunal, be enforceable- (i) against the interim payments or the compensation or other sums paid or payable to him under this Act; (ii) against his other property, if any, to the same extent to which such claims and liabilities were enforceable against such property immediately before the notified date.