In force · As amended up to 2026-08
3. Taluqdárs to have heritable and transferable rights in their estates .—Every Taluqdár with whom a summary settlement of the Government revenue was made between the first day of April 1858 and the tenth day of October 1859, or to whom, before the passing of this Act and subsequently to the first day of April 1858, a Taluqdári sanad has been granted,
shall be deemed to have thereby acquired a permanent, heritable and transferable right in the estate comprising the villages and lands named in the list attached to the agreement or kabuliyat executed by such Taluqdár when such settlement was made,
or which may have been or may be decreed to him by the Court of an officer engaged in making the first regular settlement of the provinces of Oudh, such decree not having been appealed from within the time limited for appealing against it, or, if appealed from, having been affirmed,
Subject to certain conditions. —subject to all the conditions affecting the Taluqdár contained in the orders passed by the Governor General of India on the tenth and nineteenth days of October 1859 and re-published in the first schedule hereto annexed, and subject also to all the conditions contained in the sanad under which the estate is held.
orders passed by the Governor General of India on the tenth and nineteenth days of October 1859 and
3. This right is, however, conceded, subject to any measure which the Government may think proper to take for the purpose of protecting the inferior Zamíndárs and village occupants from extortion, and of upholding their rights in the soil in subordination to the Taluqdárs.
3. The sanads declare that while, on the one hand, the Government has conferred on the Taluqdárs and on their heirs for ever the full proprietary right in their respective estates, subject only to the payment of the annual revenue that may be imposed from time to time, and to certain conditions of loyalty and good service, on the other hand, all persons holding an interest in the land under the Taluqdárs will be secured in the possession of the subordinate rights which they have heretofore enjoyed.
Source: India Code