State Act

The Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879

162. The village or share of a village so attached shall be released from attachment, and the management thereof shall be restored to the superior holder on the said superior holder’s making an application to the Collector for that purpose at any time within twelve years from the first of August next after the attachment— if at the time that such application is made it shall appear that the arrear has been liquidated ; or if the said superior holder shall be willing to pay the balance, if any still due by him, and shall do so within such period as the Collector may prescribe in that behalf. The Collector shall make over to the superior holder the surplus receipts, if any, which have accrued in the year in which his application for restoration of the village or share of a village is made after defraying all arrears and costs; but such surplus receipts, if any, or previous years shall be at the disposal of 1[ the 2[ State] Government ].