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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Cattle Trespass Act,1871 Section 26

Penalty for Damage Caused to Land or Crops or Public Roads by Pigs

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Cattle Trespass Act,1871 Section 26 is part of Cattle Trespass Act,1871 - Penalty for Damage Caused to Land or Crops or Public Roads by Pigs. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

Any owner or keeper of pigs who, through neglect or otherwise, damage or causes or permits to be damaged any land, or any crop or produce of land, or any public road, by allowing such pigs to trespass thereon, shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be punished with fine not exceeding ten rupees.

[Ins.by Section 8, ibid.] [The State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, may from time to time, with respect to any local area specified in the notification, direct that the foregoing portion of this section shall be read as if it had reference to cattle generally, or to cattle of a kind described in the notification, instead of to pigs only, or as if the words "fifty rupees" were substituted for the words "ten rupees," or as if there were both such reference and such substitution.]

[The last paragraph of Section 26 repealed by Act 10 of 1914.]

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Section Section 26 of the Cattle Trespass Act,1871 (Penalty for Damage Caused to Land or Crops or Public Roads by Pigs) is reproduced on this page as part of the Cattle Trespass Act,1871. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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