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Calcutta High Court (Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1919

.....said High Court; It is hereby enacted as follows : Section 1 Short title This Act may be called the Calcutta High Court {Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919. Section 2 Limits of ordinary original civil jurisdiction The ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal shall be exercised within the limits set out in the schedule : Provided that nothing in this Act shall affect any suit or other legal proceeding pending in any Court at the date of the commencement of this Act. SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE (See section 2) 1. The limits within which the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court shall be exercised are as follows : North. A line commencing on the western side of the river Hooghly at a point where the straight line joining reference pillar No. I (in a compound on the riverside of the Ghusri Cotton Mill, Howrah) and reference pillar No. II (near the south-western end of Chitpur Toll Bridge) meets the western water-line of the river Hooghly, and thence along the said line to the point where it meets the eastern water-line of the river Hooghly near the south bank of the opening of Circular Canal; thence along the.....

Calcutta High Court (Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919 Schedule 1

Title: The Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1919

.....the water-line of the Howrah side of the River Hooghly to the western extremity of the northern boundary. 2. (a) When the expression "water-line" is used in this Schedule all pucca ghats and other objects permanently attached to the bank and in contact with the water shall be deemed to appertain to the area to which the land on that bank appertains, and the water in contact with such objects shall be deemed to appertain to the other side of the boundary. In the places in the Schedule where the boundary is thus described the boundary line shall be the moving edge of the water wherever it may be at any time. In the case of bridges, however, the supporting pile in contact with the bank only shall be deemed to be permanently attached to the bank and the boundary line across the bridge to be immediately above the water-line so described. (b) The expression "solid side" or "solid corner" means the line or spot marked out by solid objects, such as a pucca wall or the face of a house, the wayside lands and pavements thus being all included in the adjacent road, street or lane.

Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1980

..... (7) "building of the warehouse class" means a building, the whole or a substantial part of which is used, or intended to be used, as a warehouse, factory, manufactory, brewery, or distillery, or for any similar purpose, which is neither a "domestic building" nor a "public building" as defined in this section, and includes a hut used or intended to be used for any of the purposes mentioned in this clause; (8) "bustee" means an area containing land not less than seven hundred square metres in area occupied by or for the purposes of any collection of huts or other structures used or intended to be used for human habitation. Explanation.-If any question arises as to whether any particular area is or is not a bustee, the Corporation shall decide the question and its decision shall be final; (9) "Kolkata" means the area described in Schedule I; 3 Clause (10) omitted by s. 2 of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 1996 (West Ben. Act VI of 1996) (with retrospective effect from 4.12.1995), which was earlier as under: '(10) "candidate" in section 75 and in Schedule III means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election of a Councillor or who claims.....