Bombay Court of Wards Act, 1905, (Maharashtra) Section 2 - Bare Act

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context

(a) "Government ward" shall mean any person of whose property, or of whose person and property, the Court of Wards may, for the time being, have the superintendence under this Act;

(b) "land-holder" shall mean,

(i) in the case of minors and persons adjudged by a competent Civil Court to be of unsound mind and incapable of managing their affairs, a holder as defined in the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879; and

¹[(ii) in all other cases, a zamindar, jagirdar, saranjamdar, inamdar, talukdar, malek and a khot, and any person not hereinbefore specified who is interested in land and whom the ²[³[State] Government] has declared on account of the extend and value of his interest to be a landholder for the purposes of this Act] :

Provided that, no person who permanently resides, or carries on business, or personally works for gain in ⁴[the Greater Bombay] shall be deemed or declared to be a landholder for the purposes of this Act;

⁵[(bb)"pension-holder" shall mean a person lawfully entitled to the whole or a part of a pension or cash-allowance granted or continued by Government on political considerations or of a hereditary pension or cash-allowance;]

(c) "District Court" shall include the Court of an Assistant Judge invested under section 19 of the ⁶Bombay Civil Courts Act, 1869, with all the powers of a District Judge; and

(d) "minor" shall mean a person who, under the provisions of the ⁷Indian Majority Act, 1875 is to be deemed not to have attained his majority.

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1. The paragraph was substituted by Section 2(a) of the Bombay Court of Wards (Amendment) Act, 1913 (Bom. 2 of 1913).

2. The words "Provincial Government" were substituted for the words "Governor in Council" by the Adaptation of Indian Laws Order in Council.

3. This words was substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950.

4. These words were substituted for the words "the City by Bombay" by Bom. 17 of 1945, Section 9, Sch. E. read with Bom. 52 of 1947, Section 2, proviso.

5. This clause was inserted by Section 2(b) of the Bombay Court of Wards (Amendment) Act, 1913 (Bom. 2 of 1913).

6. See Supra.

7. Central Acts.