Clarke, Richard [Editor]: The regulations of the government of Fort William in Bengal in force at the end of 1853 - to which are added, the acts of the government of India in force in that presidency: with lists of titles and an index (1): Regulations from 1793 to 1805 (London, 1854)

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REGULATION IV.

[A.D. 1793.





of the next and following months, calculating from the day on which the
defendant may be confined. If the plaintiff shall neglect or refuse to pay
the prescribed allowance for the space of one month after any payment
may become due, the nazir is to report the omission or refusal in writing,
under his signature, to the judge. Upon receipt of the report, the
judge is to cause it to be notified to the plaintiff by a writing (in the
Persian and Bengal languages, if the court be situated in Bengal or
Orissa, or in the Persian language, and the Hindostanee language and the
Nageree character, if it be in Behar), to be fixed up in some conspicuous
place in the court-room, that if he shall not, within one month after the
date of the notice, pay the sums in arrear, together with the allowance
for one month in advance, the court will release the defendant. If the
plaintiff shall not make the payments required by the notice, the court is
accordingly to discharge the defendant from custody. Plaintiffs are not
to be required to pay any allowance to defendants who may be committed
to custody for disobedience to an order of the court.
IX. That the quinquennial register of landed property paying revenue
to Government, directed to be prepared by Regulation XLVIII. 1793,
may be kept complete, the Zillah and City Courts are strictly enjoined to
transmit to the collector of the zillah and the Board of Revenue a copy
of every decree that they may pass, or which may be sent to them to be
enforced by Ay prcwXzcAzf ccw/'X o/ cppcA or the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut,
regarding any zemindarry, independent talook, or other land, paying
revenue immediately to Government, or in anywise concerning-the posses-
sion of such land. The judge is to transmit the copy of the decree
within ten days after he may pass or receive it. The decree is to be
attested with the signature of the judge and the seal of the court, and is
to be accompanied with a short abstract of it, specifying the date of the
decree, the names of the purgunnah or purgunnahs, the talook or talooks,
the turf or turfs, the village or villages, or the portions of each, which may
be decreed, the name or names of the person or persons last in possession,
the person or persons to whom the lands may be decreed, and if the land
be decreed to two or more persons, the shares awarded to each person.
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XI. If a defendant against whom a VMWwows' may issue shall abscond,
or is not after diligent search to be found, or shall shut himself up in his
own or in any house or building, or retire to any place so that the process
cannot be served upon him, and the nazir shall return that on such
account he has not been able to serve or execute the process, the judge is
to cause a writing (in the Persian and Bengal languages, if ipbe in Bengal
or Orissa, or in the Persian language, and the Hindostanee language and

Modified by
Reg. VI. 1830.

See Act XXIX.
1837.

Explained by
Secs. iii. and iv.
Reg. LYIII.
1795. ,

Act^X^IX^
1841.

Reg. II. 1805.'
See Act XXIX.
1837.