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THE FORFEITED DEPOSITS ACT, 1850
ACT NO. 25 OF 1850
[14th June, 1850]
An Act for the forfeiture to Government of deposits made on incomplete
sales of land under 2*Regulation 8, 1819. 3*
Preamble.--WHEREAS patnidars 4*fraudulently avail themselves
of the 5*provision in section 9, Regulation 8, 1819, of the Bengal
Code 6*that forfeited deposits at sales of land 7*for arrears of
rent shall be applied as if they were purchase-money. It is enacted as
follows:--
1.
[Repeals] Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1870 (14 of 1870), s. 1 and Sch.,
Pt. II.
2.
Application of forfeited deposits.
2. Application of forfeited deposits.--Any such forfeited deposit
shall be applied to defray the expenses of the sale, and the surplus
shall be forfeited to Government.
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1. Short title given by the Amending Act, 1897 (5 of 1897), s. 4 and
Sch. III>
The Act has been declared, by notification under the
Scheduled Districts Act, 1874 (14 of 1874), s. 3 to be in frce in
the Districts of Hazaribagh, Ranchi, Palamau and Manbhum and
Pargana Dhalbhum and the Kolhan in the District of Singhbhum in
the Chota Nagpur Division, see Gazette of India, 1881, Pt. I, p.
504.
The Act has also been declared to be in force in the Sonthal
Parganas by the Sonthal Parganas Settlement Regulation, 1872 (3
of 1872), s. 3 (1) and Sch.
2. The Bengal Patni Taluks Regulation, 1819.
3. The words and figures "and Act 4, 1846" rep. by Act 12 of 1891,
s. 2 and Sch. I, Pt. I.
4. The words "and judgment-debtors," rep. by s. 2 and Sch. I, Pt. I.
ibid.
5. The provision referred to rep. by s. 1 of the present Act.
6. The words and figures "and in section 5, Act 4, 1846," rep. by
Act 12 of 1891, s. 2 and Sch. I, Pt. I.
7. The words "in execution of decrees or" rep. by s. 2 and Sch. I,
Pt. I, ibid.
