Central Act · 1876 · Act 18
The Oudh Laws Act, 1876
In force46 sections· Ministry of Home Affairs
1.Short title.
2.[Repealed.].
3.Statutory law to be administered in Oudh.
4.Validity of local customs and mercantile usages.
5.Muhammadan dower contracts how to be enforced.
6.Right of pre-emption.
7.Presumption as to its existence.
8.Its existence in towns to be proved.
9.Devolution of right when property to be sold or foreclosed is a proprietary or under proprietary tenure.
9A.When a suit for pre-emption lies.
10.Notice to pre-emptors.
11.Loss of right of pre-emption.
12.Right of pre-emptor on foreclosure.
13.Suit to enforce right of pre-emption.
14.Decree to fix time for payment.
15.Effect of non-payment of purchase-money.
16.Rule of limitation.
17.Repealed.
18.Repealed.
19.Rules for taking evidence.
20.Execution-sale of ancestral and acquired property in land.
21.Repealed.
23.Repealed.
22.Service of process within jurisdiction of Lucknow Civil Court.
24.Repealed.
25.Repealed.
26.Revenue-agents authorized to appear, etc., in rent-suits.
27.Power to make rules for custody and sale of attached property.
28.Repealed
29.Right to nominate village-policemen.
30.Obligation to nominate.
31.Discretion to appoint or reject nominee.
32.Power to Government to appoint.
33.Appointment of road-police.
34.Duties of village and road-policemen.
35.Procedure on arrest by village or road-policeman.
36.Dismissal of village or road-policeman.
37.Acts punishable.
38.Fines to be credited to such fund as Government appoints.
39.Power to make rules.
40.Publication of rules.
41.Repealed.
41. ic95610Continuance of prior rules as to matters for which rules may be made under the Act].---- Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1891 (12 of 1891).
42.Penalty for breach of rules.
Whoever breaks any rule made or continued under this Act, not being a rule made by the 1[High Court], shall, on conviction before a Magistrate; be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with both.
Footnotes (1)
- 1.Subs. by the A.O. 1950 for "Chief Court".
43.. Repealed.
[Power to invest taluqdars with civil jurisdiction].— Rep. by the Oudh Civil Courts Acts, 1879 (13 of 1879.)
44.Honorary police-officers
The State Government may, from time to time, confer on any person whom it thinks fit any power which may be exercised by a police-officer under any Act for the time being in force, and withdraw any power so conferred.
45.Repealed.
45. Power to create new districts. Power to form sub-divisions of districts. ---Rep .by the United Provinces Act, 1890 (20 of 1890), s. 35.
Rules, notifications and orders under this Act
Listed from India Code. Each opens there.