sec.21Compensation for injury to interests in reversion

sec.21 Compensation for injury to interests in reversion

Where such compensation is sought to be recovered in respect of any acts causing or likely to cause the same kind of injury to the same property, and such acts may injure interests in reversion as well as in possession of such property, the person claiming compensation shall, before any sum is awarded as compensation, satisfy the court as to the nature and extent of the respective estates or interests in such property of such claimant and all other persons (if any) said to be injured, and that the claimant has given sufficient notice to all such other persons of the claimant’s proceedings to obtain compensation under this Act. All such other persons, whether they have received such notice or not, who may appear before the court shall be entitled to be heard on behalf of their respective interests in the compensation to be awarded. In awarding any sum by way of compensation for such injury the court shall award and apportion as between such claimant and such other persons in such manner in all respects as to such court may seem fit the amounts to be received by any or some or all of them respectively out of such sum as compensation for all injury of the same kind caused or likely to result to the respective interests of such claimant or other persons in such property. Such amounts shall be received by such claimant or other persons, and shall be in full discharge and satisfaction of the claims of such persons to compensation in respect of the matter complained of, and of all future injury, loss, or damage in respect of the same matter. Any person to whom any such sum has been awarded or apportioned as aforesaid shall have all such remedies and means of recovering the said sum from the constructing authority against which the claim has been made as though such person had originally been a plaintiff in the action in which such award or apportionment has been so made. (sec.21-ssec.1) Where such compensation is sought to be recovered in respect of any acts causing or likely to cause the same kind of injury to the same property, and such acts may injure interests in reversion as well as in possession of such property, the person claiming compensation shall, before any sum is awarded as compensation, satisfy the court as to the nature and extent of the respective estates or interests in such property of such claimant and all other persons (if any) said to be injured, and that the claimant has given sufficient notice to all such other persons of the claimant’s proceedings to obtain compensation under this Act. (sec.21-ssec.2) All such other persons, whether they have received such notice or not, who may appear before the court shall be entitled to be heard on behalf of their respective interests in the compensation to be awarded. (sec.21-ssec.3) In awarding any sum by way of compensation for such injury the court shall award and apportion as between such claimant and such other persons in such manner in all respects as to such court may seem fit the amounts to be received by any or some or all of them respectively out of such sum as compensation for all injury of the same kind caused or likely to result to the respective interests of such claimant or other persons in such property. (sec.21-ssec.4) Such amounts shall be received by such claimant or other persons, and shall be in full discharge and satisfaction of the claims of such persons to compensation in respect of the matter complained of, and of all future injury, loss, or damage in respect of the same matter. (sec.21-ssec.5) Any person to whom any such sum has been awarded or apportioned as aforesaid shall have all such remedies and means of recovering the said sum from the constructing authority against which the claim has been made as though such person had originally been a plaintiff in the action in which such award or apportionment has been so made.