Government of Bengal. Legislative Department. Act X of 1859 (The Bengal Rent Act 1859) as modified up to the 1st April 1912

LOCAL EXTENT.—This Act applied originally to the whole of Bengal as constituted in 1859 (see the title and section 3) but it has been repealed by the Bengal Tenancy Act 1885 (VIII of 1885) s. 2 (1) in the whole Province except the town of Calcutta the Division of Orissa and the Scheduled Districts." As to the extension of this repeal to the Division of Orissa (except the Angul and Sambalpur [...] 1-3.) law relative to the rights of raiyats with respect to the delivery of pattas and the occupancy of land to the prevention of illegal exaction and extortion in connection with demands of rent and to other questions connected with the same ; to extend the jurisdiction of Collectors and to prescribe rules for the trial of such questions as well as of suits for the recovery of arrears of rent [...] No raiyat having a.right of occupancy Rent of raiyat having right shall be liable to an enhancement of the rent of occupancy not to be previously paid by him except on some one of enhanced the following grounds namely :— unless— that the rate of rent paid by such raiyat is below the prevailing rate payable by the same class of raiyats for land of a similar description and with similar advantages [...] Every raiyat having a right of occupancy shall be entitled to claim an abatement of the rent previously paid by him if the area of the land has been diminished by diluvion or othewise or if the value of the produce or the productive powers of the land have been decreased by any cause beyond the power of the raiyat or if the quantity of land held by the raiyat has been proved by mea!urement t [...] Any instalment of rent which is not paid on or before the day when the same is payable according to the patta or - engagement or if there be no written specification of the time of payment [1] The month of Chaitra corresponds with the last part of March and the first part of April.