A Manual for the Guidance of Officers in the Partition of Estates Under Act V (B. C.) of 1897

to the Partition of Estates WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to the partition of estates; And whereas the sanction of the Governor-Geneigil of India has been obtained under section 5 of the Indian Councils Act 1892 to the provisions contained in section 12 of this Act amending the Code of Civil Procedure ; it is hereby enacted as follows :— CHAPTER I. Preliminary. [...] If in the opinion of the Collector the application fulfils the said requirements and if there appears to him to be no objection to making the partition he shall— (a) publish a notification of the application in 'the manner prescribed by section 104 and also by causing copies to be posted up at the Court of the Judge of the district and at the Court of every Munsif and Subdivisional Officer with [...] (2) If the effect of any such decree be to declare any person or body of persons to be entitled to any extent of interest in the parent estate in excess of the extent of interest which the Collector in the said -proceeding has declared to be held by such person or body of persons the decree shall specify separately in respect of every propritor or body of proprietors of Whose interests the Co [...] In any district or division in which partitions are so numerous or extensive as to render necessary the appointment of a special establishment in the office of the Collector or of the Commissioner the Collector or the Commissioner as the case may be with the previous sanction of the Board may appoint such establishment. [...] The cost of making a partition shall be apportioed on the proprietors Of the several shares in proportion' to their shares: Provided that whenever it appears to the -Collector that any partition proceedings have been unnecessarily delayed and the cost of the partition enhanced by obstacles vextiously put in the way of the completion of the proceed: ings by one or more of the proprietors or