The Oudh Rent Act 1868, 19 of 1868, (Rep., Act 22 of 1886) · IX — .

Section 4. Section 172

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

Chapter V: . EJECTMENT. | Section 4: If notice is not contested, tenancy to be held to cease 44. If notice is not contested, tenancy to be held to cease. Assistance to eject. 45. When assistance to eject may be given by Court. Growing Crops. 46. Compensation to ejected tenant for growing crops. SECTION. 4. Section 172.—So much of this section as requires that the whole of the evidence shall be taken down in writing in the language in ordinary use is excepted, and the record made by the ACT No. XIX of 1868. 153 the hand of the Judge, under the following rule, being the rule now in force in Oudh, shall be taken as a record of the evidence:— Rule.—An intelligible note of the essential points of the evidence of each witness is to be taken at the time and in the course of oral examination by the officer who tries the case, in his own language. The notes must be legible, complete, and properly arranged, must attest the presence of the witness at the time, and mark every postponement and change of time and scene, so that their *bond fide* character may be apparent. Every essential point must be noted, but mere surplusage may be omitted. These notes shall be filed, and shall form part of the record of the case: Provided that in cases tried by a European officer, who has not passed the examination in the Native languages prescribed for Assistant Commissioners exercising special powers, the evidence of witnesses shall also be recorded at length in their own language. Section 205.—So much of this section as renders land liable to sale in execution of a decree, will be subject to the restrictions on the sale of land prescribed by the following rule, being the local rule now in force in Oudh:— Rule.—No ancestral property in land shall be sold in satisfaction of a decree, without the sanction of the Judicial Commissioner; and before acquired property in land shall be so sold, the permission of the Divisional Commissioner shall be obtained. o 1

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