Act No. 67 of 2019 - General Code (Muluki Ain).

The Muluki Ain (General Code) Ais contains the procedural law as well as the substantive law provisions (civil and criminal) which apply when no specific laws are applicable on matters concerned: according to article 4, the matters set forth in separate laws made in specific subjects shall be governed by such laws and those matters not set forth in such laws shall be governed by this Muluki Ain (General Code). This Code replaces the previous "Muluki Ain", adopted through an order issued in 1910.
Part 1 of the Code sets forth preliminary provisions: entry into force; some definitions; primacy of special laws on specific subject matters. Part 2 of the Code lays dow provisions on court proceedings, distiguishing between criminal cases and civil cases. Part 3 includes rules of private law relating to different topisc such as documentation, guarantees, bona vacantia (Kalyan Dahn), wages, lost and found quadrupeds (see Chapter 6), trusts (Chapter 7), among others.
It is worth noticing Chapter 8 of Part 3, on cultivation of land. Water shall not be available for others unless and until the requirements of the person who has constructed the ditch (irrigation channel) at his or her own expense or with his or her own physical labor. In places where water has been shared since ago, no one shall be allowed to so withhold the usual share of the water as to make the low land uncultivable. Further provisions on irrigation channel tumbles, dams and canals are set forth. Chapter 9 refers to two categories in matter of land evictions: Rajguthi lands and Kipat lands without official documents shall be equivalent to Raikar (land subject to tax); lands of all other categories shall be Raikar.