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Title : Proof of Execution of Document Required by Law to Be Attested
State : Central
Year : 1872
If a document is required by law to be attested, it shall not be used as evidence until one attesting witness at least has been called for the purpose of proving its execution, if there be an attesting witness alive, and subject to the process of the Court and capable of giving evidence: 1 [Provided that it shall be necessary to call an attesting witness in proof of the execution of any document, not being a Will, which has been registered in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), unless its execution by the person by whom it purports to have been executed is specifically denied.] ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 31 of 1926, section 2.
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Title : Of the Attestation, Revocation, Alteration and Revival of Wills
State : Central
Year : 1925
.....validity to a privileged Will, or by the burning, tearing or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same. Explanation.In order to the revocation of a privileged Will or codicil by an act accompanied by such formalities as would be sufficient to give validity to a privileged Will, it is not necessary that the testator should at the time of doing that act be in a situation which entitles him to make a privileged Will. Section 73 - Revival of unprivileged Will (1) No unprivileged Will or codicil, nor any part thereof, which has been revoked in any manner, shall be revived otherwise than by the re-execution thereof, or by a codicil executed in manner hereinbefore required, and showing an intention to revive the same. (2) When any Will or codicil, which has been partly revoked and afterwards wholly revoked, is revived, such revival shall not extend to so much thereof as has been revoked before the revocation of the whole thereof, unless an intention to the contrary is shown by the Will or codicil.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Succession Act, 1925 Section 67
Title : Effect of Gift to Attesting Witness
State : Central
Year : 1925
A Will shall not be deemed to be insufficiently attested by reason of any benefit thereby given either by way of bequest or by way of appointment to any person attesting it, or to his or her wife or husband; but the bequest or appointment shall be void so far as concerns the person so attesting or the wife or husband of such person or any person claiming under either of them. Explanation. A legatee under a Will does not lose his legacy by attesting a codicil which confirms the Will.
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Title : Proof Where No Attesting Witness Found
State : Central
Year : 1872
If no such attesting witness can be found, or if the document purports to have been executed in the United Kingdom, it must be proved that the attestation of one attesting witness at least is in his handwriting, and that the signature of the person executing the documents is in the handwriting of that person.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionArmy Act, 1950 Section 17
Title : Mode of Attestation
State : Central
Year : 1950
(1) When a person who is to be attested is reported fit for duty, or has completed the prescribed period of probation, an oath or affirmation shall be administered to him in the prescribed form by his commanding officer in front of this corps or such portion thereof or such members of his department as may be present, or by any other prescribed person. (2) The form of oath or affirmation prescribed under this section shall contain a promise that the person to be attested will bear true allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established, and that he will serve in the regular Army and go wherever he is ordered by land, sea or air, and that he will obey all commands of any officer set over him, even to the peril of his life. (3) The fact of an enrolled person having taken the oath or affirmation directed by this section to be taken shall be entered on his enrolment paper, and authenticated by the signature of the officer administering the oath or affirmation.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAir Force Act, 1950 Section 17
Title : Mode of Attestation
State : Central
Year : 1950
(1) When a person who is to be attested is reported fit for duty, or has completed the prescribed period of probation, an oath or affirmation shall be administered to him in the prescribed form by his commanding officer in front of his unit or such portion thereof as may be present, or by any other prescribed persons. (2) The form of oath or affirmation prescribed under this section shall contain a promise that the person to be attested will bear true allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established, and that he will serve in the Air Force and go wherever he is ordered by land, sea or air, and that he will obey all commands of any officer set over him, even to the peril of his life. (3) The fact of an enrolled person having taken the oath or affirmation directed by this section to be taken shall be entered on his enrolment paper and authenticated by the signature of the officer administering the oath or affirmation.
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Title : Admission of Execution by Party to Attested Document
State : Central
Year : 1872
The admission of a party to an attested document of its execution by himself shall be sufficient proof of its execution as against him, though it be a document required by law to be attested.
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Title : Proof of Document Not Required by Law to Be Attested
State : Central
Year : 1872
An attesting document not required by law to be attested may be proved as if it was unattested.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionArmy Act, 1950 Section 16
Title : Persons to Be Attested
State : Central
Year : 1950
The following persons shall be attested, namely:-- (a) all persons enrolled as combatants; (b) all persons selected to hold a non-commissioned or acting non-commissioned rank; and (c) all other persons subject to this Act as may be prescribed by the Central Government.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAir Force Act, 1950 Section 16
Title : Persons to Be Attested
State : Central
Year : 1950
The following persons shall be attested, namely : .-- (a) all persons enrolled as combatants; (b) all persons selected to hold a non-commissioned or acting non-commissioned rank; and (c) all other persons subject to this Act as may be prescribed by the Central Government.
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