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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Section 20

Title: Other Suits to Beinstituted Where Defendants Reside or Cause of Action Arises

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....A resides at Simla, B at Calcutta and C at Delhi, A, B and C being together at Benaras, B and C make a joint promissory note payable on demand, and deliver it to A. A may sue B and C at Benaras, where the cause of action arose. He may also sue them at Calcutta, where B resides, or at Delhi, where C resides; but in each of these cases, if the non-resident defendant objects, the suit cannot proceed without the leave of the Court. __________________ 1. Explanation I omitted by Act 104 of 1976, section 7 (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). 2. Substituted by Act 104 of 1976, section 7(ii), for Explanation II (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). 3. Substituted by Act 2 of 1951, section 3, for "the States" (w.e.f. 1-4-1951).

Code of Civil Procedure 1908 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....in the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970 (5 of 1970). Explanation II : For the purposes of this section, a transaction is a commercial transaction, if it is connected with the industry, trade or business of the party incurring the liability.] (2) Where such a decree is silent with respect to the payment of further interest on such principal sum] from the date of the decree to the date of payment or other earlier date, the court shall be deemed to have refused such interest, and a separate suit therefor shall not lie. SECTION 35: COSTS (1) Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed, and to the provisions of any law for the time being in force, the costs of and incident to all suits shall be in the discretion of the court, and the court shall have full power to determine by whom or out of what property and to what extent such costs are to be paid, and to give all necessary directions for the purposes aforesaid. The fact that the court has no jurisdiction to try the suit shall be no bar to the exercise of such powers. (2) Where the court directs that any costs shall not follow the event, the court shall state its reasons in.....

Ports Act, 1908 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....been preserved. The only clause which in any way alters the law at at present in force in clause 43(b). That clause corresponds to S. 43(b) of the Act, which enacts that the owner or master of a vessel must pay all expenses, required by S.228 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854 to be borne by him, before the grant of a port-clearance. The Statute of 1854 has been repealed by the present Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 and 58 Vict.. Cap. 60). Section 207 of which makes the owner or master liable to pay a further item of expense in addition to the items mentioned in the corresponding Section (228) of the repealed Statute. The substitution of Section 207 of the existing Statute for the reference to the repealed Statute makes the scope of clause 43(b) of the Bill slightly wider than that of the corresponding provision of the existing Act. This is, however, in accordance with the spirit of the existing enactment. The Act has been withdrawn from certain ports mentioned in the first schedule, while certain new ports have been brought under its operation. The schedule has been amended accordingly........"- Gaz. of Ind.. 1908, Part V. page 309.An Act to condolidate the enactments.....

The Madras Estates Land Act, 1908 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1908

THE MADRAS ESTATES LAND ACT, 1908 THE MADRAS ESTATES LAND ACT, 1908 [Act No. 1 of 1908] PREAMBLE An Act to declare and amend the law relating to the holding of land in estates in the Presidency of Madras. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend and declare the Law relating to the holding of land in estates in the Presidency of Madras; It is hereby enacted as follows:- Chapter I - PRELIMINARY THE MADRAS ESTATES LAND ACT, 1908 [Act No. 1 of 1908] PREAMBLE An Act to declare and amend the law relating to the holding of land in estates in the Presidency of Madras. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend and declare the Law relating to the holding of land in estates in the Presidency of Madras; It is hereby enacted as follows:- Section 1 - Short title, Commencement, Local extent This Act may be called the Madras Estates Land Act, 1908: It shall come into force on the first day of July 1908: and it shall extend to the whole of the Presidency of Madras except the Presidency Town, the district of Malabar and the portion of the Nilgiri district known as the South East Wynaad. Section 2 - Repeal Madras Acts VIII of 1865 and II of 1871 and section 7 of Madras Act.....

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Rule 1 to 18

Title: Suits by Indigent Persons

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....Inserted by act 104 of 1976, section 81(xiii) (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). 5. The provisions of this rule so far as it relates to the making of the memorandum are not applicable to the Chief Court of Oudh, see Oudh Courts Act, 1925 (U.P. Act 4 of 1925), section 16 (2). 6. Substituted by Act 104 of 1976, section 81 for "a memorandum of the substance of their evidence" (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). 7. Substituted by Act 104 of 1976, section 81(vii)(c), for "as herein provided" (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). 8. Substituted by Act 104 of 1976, section 81(viii), for "(other than fees payable for service of process)" (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). 9. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government" which had been Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "Government". 10. Inserted by Act 24 of 1942, section 2. 11. Substituted by Act 24 of 1942, section 2 for "or rule 11". 12. Substituted by Act 24 of 1942, section 2, for rule 14. 13. Substituted by Act 104 of 1976, section 81(xi), for Provided that he first pays" (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). 14. The words "sub-rule (2) of" Omitted by Act 19 of 1988, section 3 Second Schedule.

Registration Act, 1908 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....after the date on which, Act No. XVI of 1864, or the Indian Registration Act, 1866, or the Indian Registration Act, 1871, or the Indian Registration Act, 1877 or this Act came or comes into force, namely:- (a) instruments of gift of immovable property; (b) other non-testamentary instruments which purport or operate to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, whether in present or in future, any right, title or interest, whether vested or contingent, of the value of one hundred rupees, and upwards, to or in immovable property; (c) non-testamentary instruments which acknowledge the receipt or payment of any consideration on account of the creation, declaration, assignment, limitation or extinction of any such right, title or interest; and (d) leases of immovable property from year to year, or for any term exceeding one year, or reserving a yearly rent; 12[(e) non-testamentary instruments transferring or assigning any decree or order of a court or any award when such decree or order or award purports or operates to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, whether in present or in future, any right, title or interest, whether vested or contingent, of the value of.....

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Rule 1 to 7

Title: Summary Procedure

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....suit. (5) The defendant may, at any time within ten days from the service of such summons for judgment, by affidavit or otherwise disclosing such facts as may be deemed sufficient to entitle him to defend, apply on such summons for leave to defend such suit, and leave to defend may be granted to him unconditionally or upon such terms as may appear to the Court or Judge to be just: Provided that leave to defend shall not be refused unless the Court is satisfied that the facts disclosed by the defendant do not indicate that he has a substantial defence to raise or that the defence intended to be put up by the defendant is frivolous or vexatious: Provided further that, where a part of the amount claimed by the plaintiff is admitted by the defendant to be due from him, leave to defend the suit shall not be granted unless the amount so admitted to be due is deposited by the defendant in Court. (6) At the hearing of such summons for judgment,-- (a) if the defendant has not applied for leave to defend, or if such application has been made and is refused, the plaintiff shall be entitled to judgment forthwith; or (b) if the defendant is permitted to defend as to the whole or.....

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....under the Government; (d) every officer of a Court of Justice whose duty it is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to make, authenticate or keep any document, or to take charge of dispose of any property, or to execute any judicial process, or to administer any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order, in the Court, and every person especially authorised by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties; (e) every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement; (f) every officer of the Government whose duty it is, as such officer, to prevent offences, to give information of offences, to bring offenders to justice, or to protect the public health, safety or convenience ; (g) every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any property on behalf of the Government, or to make any survey, assessment or contract on behalf of the Government, or to execute any revenue process, or to investigate, or to report on, any matter affecting the pecuniary interests of the Government, or to make, authenticate or keep any document relating to the.....

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Rule 19 to 22

Title: Commissions Issued at the Instance of Foreign Tribunals

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....the local limits of 3[the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court], to any person whom the Court thinks fit to execute the commission. 4[22. Issue, execution and return of commissions, and transmission of evidence to foreign Court The provisions of rules 6 , 15, 5[sub-rule ( 1 ) of rules 16 A, 17 , 18 and 18B ] of this Order in so far as they are applicable shall apply to the issue, execution and return of such commission, and when any such commission has been duly executed it shall be returned, together with the evidence taken under it, to the High Court, which shall forward it to the Central Government, along with the letter of request for transmission to the foreign court] _____________________ 1. Inserted by Act 10 of 1932, section 3. 2. Certain words omitted by the A.O. 1937. 3. Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "its ordinary original civil jurisdiction". 4. Inserted by Act 10 of 1932, section 3. 5. Substituted by Act 104 of 1976, section 75(viii), for "16, 17 and 18" (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Rule 1 to 6

Title: Special Case

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....in the agreement. (2) Every case stated under this rule shall be divided into consecutively numbered paragraphs, and shall concisely state such facts and specify such documents as may be necessary to enable the Court to decide the question raised thereby. 2. Where value of subject-matter must be stated Where the agreement is for the delivery of any property, or for the doing, or the refraining from doing, any particular act, the estimated value of the property to be delivered, or to which the act specified has reference, shall be slated in the agreement. 3. Agreement to be filed and registered as suit (1) The agreement, if framed in accordance with the rules hereinbefore contained, may be filed1[with an application] in the Court which would have jurisdiction to entertain a suit, the amount or value of the subject-matter of which is the same as the amount of value of the subject-matter of the agreement. (2)2[The application] when so filed, shall be numbered and registered as a suit between one or more of the parties claiming to be interested a plaintiff or plaintiffs, and the other or the others of them as defendant or defendants ; and notice shall be given to all.....