law: Pension’s Act, 1871
  7. Pensions for lands held under grants in perpetuity
  Nothing in sections four and six applies to-
  (1) any inam of the class referred to in section 1 of Madras Act
  
  No. IV of 1862.
  (2) pensions heretofore granted by Government in the territories
  
  respectively subject to the Lieutenant-Governors of Bengal and the North-Western
  
  Provinces, either wholly or in part as an indemnity for loss sustained by the
  
  resumption by a Native Government of lands held under sanads purporting to
  
  confer a right in perpetuity. Such pensions shall not be liable to resumptions
  
  on the death of the recipient, but every such pension shall be capable of
  
  alienation and descent, and may be sued and recovered in the same manner as any
  
  other property.