Subject to such rules (if any) as may be made in this behalf under Section 264, a suit may be instituted before, or an application may be made to, the Deputy Commissioner collectively by or against any number of tenants holding land in the same village; and an allegation that such tenants are wrongly joined shall be no ground for dismissing a suit or refusing to hear an application; but, no order shall be passed in any collective suit or on any such collective application unless the officer making the same is satisfied that all parties have had an opportunity to appear and make objection to any claims preferred against them; and if at any time it appears to the Deputy Commissioner that the question between any two of the parties of whom one is so joined with others cannot conveniently be jointly tried or heard, the Deputy Commissioner may order a separate trial or hearing.
Chapter XVI Judicial Procedure in Matters Cognizable by The Deputy Commissioner
Section 140: Collective suits or applications
The Chota Nagpur Tenancy Act, 1908
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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Jharkhand. The copy prints amendments in square brackets without naming the amending Acts and gives no "as amended up to" date; the newest amending instrument it names is the Chota Nagpur Tenancy (Amendment) Act, 1969 (President's Act 4 of 1969), while it already carries later wording such as references to the Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976 (section 3) and the Jharkhand Municipal Act, 2002 (section 1).
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Chapter VII-A is printed only as a heading with the title "[* * *]" and contains no sections.
Schedule A, Schedule B and the Appendix (Part I: provisions of the Chota Nagpur Tenancy (Amendment) Act, 1920 not incorporated in the text; Part II: the Seraikela and Kharsawan (Laws) Act, 1951 with its Schedule of modifications) are printed at the end of the India Code file and are listed here by heading only.