The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898
Central · 1898
- S. 1Short title, extent and commencement.
- S. 2Definitions.
- S. 3Classes of tenants.
- S. 4Presumption as to amount of rent payable.
- S. 5Date from which order fixing rent operates.
- S. 6Time for payment of rents.
- S. 7Rents payable to a number of landlords.
- S. 8Power to deposit rent in certain cases with Revenue officer.
- S. 9Effect of depositing rent.
- S. 10Penalty for levy of anything in excess of rent by landlord.
- S. 11Presumption as to payments by tenant to landlord.
- S. 12Penalty for refusing receipt or giving defective receipt.
- S. 13Enhancement of rent when productive power of holding increased by landlord.
- S. 14Reduction of rent when effect of improvement ceases.
- S. 15Power to alter rent when holding is increased, diminished or deteriorated.
- S. 16Power to alter rent in case of new assessment.
- S. 17Commutation of rent payable in kind.
- S. 18Remission and suspension of rent consequent on like treatment of land-revenue.
- S. 19Commission for dividing or estimating crops.
- S. 20Appointment of assessors, etc.
- S. 21Remedy for error in division.
- S. 22Procedure when crop has been estimated or appraised.
- S. 23Definition of “produce of a holding.
- S. 24Power of landlord, by notice, to prohibit removal of produce.
- S. 25Effect of instituting suit for rent while notice is in force.
- S. 26Right to reap, etc., produce not affected.
- S. 27Content and service of notice; time for which it remains in force.
- S. 28Procedure when produce is under attachment.
- S. 29Conflict between rights of superior and inferior landlord.
- S. 30Penalty for illegal distraint by landlord, and for illegal removal of produce.
- S. 31Right to make improvements.
- S. 32Liability to pay to tenant on ejectment compensation for improvements.
- S. 33Assessment of compensation.
- S. 34Avoidance of provisions barring right to make, or be compensated for, improvements.
- S. 35Surrender of holdings.
- S. 36Surrender of occupancy-tenant’s holding.
- S. 37Tenant taking thika or farm.
- S. 38Provisions regarding tenant-right not applicable to tenant of land in reserved forests.
- S. 39Definition of absolute occupancy-tenant.
- S. 40Rents fixed for period of settlement.
- S. 41Right heritable and transferable after notice to landlord, who may claim to purchase.
- S. 42Absolute occupancy-tenant not liable to ejectement.
- S. 43Rent first charge on holding and holding saleable in execution of decree for arrears of rent.
- S. 44Definition of Occupancy-tenant.
- S. 45Accrual of occupancy-tenant-right in sir-land on transfer of right to occupy as proprietor.
- S. 46Devolution of occupancy-right.
- S. 47Rights of certain persons to apply to set aside transfers.
- S. 48Procedure on application.
- S. 49Rent of occupancy-tenant to be fixed at settlement.
- S. 50Fixation of rents during currency of settlement in Chanda, Nimar and Sambalpur.
- S. 51Enhancement during settlement in other districts.
- S. 52Grounds for ejectment.
- S. 53Tenant changing land in accordance with village-custom.
- S. 54Tenant changing land in other cases.
- S. 55Definition of “village-service-tenant”.
- S. 56Devolution and transfer of village-service-tenant’s right.
- S. 57Obligation of village-service-tenant to provide substitute.
- S. 58Grounds on which a village-service tenant may be ejected.
- S. 59Definition of sub-tenant.
- S. 60Tenure according to agreement.
- S. 61Power to declare sub-tenants in certain cases to have rights of ordinary tenants.
- S. 62Definition of “ordinary tenant”.
- S. 63Landlord’s right to recover rents determined at settlement as payable by ordinary tenants.
- S. 64Notice of enhancement to be served through Revenue-officer.
- S. 65Liability of tenant to ejectment in default of his agreeing to enhancement.
- S. 66Procedure in ejectment suit.
- S. 67Rent of ordinary tenant regulated by agreement.
- S. 68Fresh proceedings not to be taken for seven years.
- S. 69Grounds on which an ordinary tenant may be ejected.
- S. 70Devolution of ordinary tenancy.
- S. 71Right of certain persons to apply to set aside transfers.
- S. 72Procedure on application.
- S. 73Obligation of landlord to confer occupancy-rights on ordinary tenant.
- S. 74Power to direct that suits between landlords and tenants be entered in separate registers.
- S. 75Plaint in such suits.
- S. 76Legal Practitioners’ fees not allowed unless for special reasons.
- S. 77Set-off when allowed in suits for arrears.
- S. 78Procedure when ordinary tenant in suit pleads excessive rent.
- S. 79Tenants’ improvements how to be treated in fixing rents.
- S. 80Interest on arrears.
- S. 81No appeal in certain suits for arrears.
- S. 82Application for execution by sale of holding or by ejectment.
- S. 83Arrears decreed not to be on current year’s account.
- S. 84Procedure in execution by sale of holding.
- S. 85Procedure in execution by ejectment.
- S. 86Power of Court to deal with cases of drought or other calamity in suits for arrears.
- S. 87Relief against forfeitures.
- S. 88Rights of ejected tenants in respect of crops and land prepared for sowing.
- S. 89Payment by tenant for occupation of land under section 88.
- S. 90In suits for arrears all claims between landlord and tenant to be determined.
- S. 91Procedure when, on sale or ejectment, money is due by the land-lord to the tenant.
- S. 92Reinstatement of tenant illegally ejected.
- S. 93Applications to measure or ascertain condition of holdings.
- S. 94Limitation is suits under the Act.
- S. 95Jurisdiction of Civil Courts barred in certain cases.
- S. 96Procedure on applications to Revenue and Settlement Officers, and appeals from their orders.
- S. 97Jurisdiction of Civil Courts in suits between landlords and tenants.
- S. 98Recovery of fines and penalties.
- S. 99Power to Local Government to make rules.
- S. 100Repeals.