(1) No court shall, before the date on which the earliest deposit in pursuance of this Act is made in the office of the Tribunal, order or continue execution in the respect of any decree or order passed against the janmi, against his interest in the janmam state or against his other immovable property or against him personally be arrest and detention; and with effect on and from Such date, execution in the cases aforesaid may be ordered or continued as Specified in, and in accordance with, the provisions of section 52.
(2) All proceedings for the execution of any decree or order by the arrest and detention in prison of the janmi pending on the appointed day shall stand dismissed and if on such day the janmi is detained in a prison in execution of any such decree or order, he shall be released forthwith.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, no janmi, shall, on or after the appointed day and before the date on which the earliest deposit as aforesaid is made, sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise assign, or alienate any of his immovable property, and any transaction of the nature hereby prohibited shall be void and- inoperative and shall not confer or take away any right whatever on or from any party to the transaction.
1969 : T. N. Act 24 ] 52 (1) No claim or liability enforceable immediately before the appointed day against the janmi or against any other person whose rights stand transferred to the Government in pursuance of clause
(b) of section 3 shall, on or after that day, be enforceable against the interest he had in the janmam estate; and all such claims and liabilities shall, after the date on which the earliest deposit in pursuance of this Act is made in the office of the Tribunal, be enforceable — Transitional provision in regard to liabilities of janmi, etc.,
(a) against the interim payments or the compensation or other Sum or sums paid or payable to him under this Act to the same extent to which such claims and liabilities were enforceable against his interest in the janmam estate immediately before the appointed day. a
(b) against his other property, if any, to the same extent to which such claims and liabilities were enforceable against such property immediately before the appointed day.
(2) No court shall, on or after the appointed day, order or continue execution in respect of any decree or order passed against the janmi or any other person aforesaid against the interest he had in the janmam estate; and execution shall be ordered or continued in such cases in conformity with the provisions of sub-section
(1) only as against the interim payments or against the compensation or other sum or Sums paid or payable to him as aforesaid, or against his other property, if any,
(3) No Court shall, enforcing any claim or liability against the janmi or any other person aforesaid allow interest at a rate exceeding six per cent per annum simple interest for the period commencing on the appointed day and ending with the date on which the earliest deposit in pursuance of this Act is mad« in the office of the Tribunal.
53. If any question arises whether any land in janmam estate is a forest or is situated in a forest, or as to the limits of a forest, it shall be determined by the Settlement Officer, subject to an appeal to the Director, within such, time as may he prescribed and also to revision by the Board of Revenue.
Decision of Questions regarding forests [1969 : T. N. Act. 24 Janmi’s right to collect arrears