The Punjab Tenancy Act 1868, 28 of 1868, (Rep., Act 16 of 1887) · V — .

Section 6. When a tenant having a right of occupancy in any land dies, his right shall devolve on his male line

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

36. When a tenant having a right of occupancy in any land dies, his right shall devolve on his male lineal descendants (if any), and, failing such descendants, the right shall go to his male collateral relatives: Provided that the common ancestor of the deceased and his said relatives shall have occupied such land. As among descendants and collateral relatives claiming under this section, such right shall devolve and go as if it were land left by the deceased in the village in which such land is situate. Chapter II: . OF RIGHTS OF OCCUPANCY. | Section 6: Every tenant whose name appears in the records of a regular or revised settlement heretofore sanctio 6. Every tenant whose name appears in the records of a regular or revised settlement heretofore sanctioned by the Local Government, as having a right of occupancy in land which he or the person from whom he has immediately inherited has continuously occupied from the entry of his name or the name of such person (as the case may be) in such settlement, shall be presumed to have a right of occupancy in the land so occupied, Presumption arising from entry in settlement record. (1) that, within the thirty years immediately before the institution of such suit, other tenants of the same class in the same or in adjacent villages have ordinarily been ejected from their holdings at the will of the landlord; or (2) that the tenant has voluntarily admitted, before any officer employed in making or revising a regular settlement of land-revenue or before any officer authorized to attest the entries in the record of such settlement, that he is a tenant not having a right of occupancy, and that such admission has been recorded at the time by the officer so employed or authorized.

Source: India Code