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Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1909

....."If this Bill be passed into law it will be necessary to repeal the 1848 Act, and this raise a question which deserves consideration. The present Act is an Act of the imperial Parliament and a vesting order made under it vests in the assignee by direct operation all the real and personal estate and effects of the insolvent in whatever part of the King's dominions they may be situate or accrue; and a discharge under the Act has effect in every part of those dominions. The Act is one of those which it is within the competency of the Legislative Council of the Governor-General to repeal, but if it be repealed and an Indian Act be substituted, it follows that these advantages must at least for the most part be abandoned, since an Act of the Indian Legislature cannot operate for this purpose outside the limits of India. In 1886 it was proposed that an Act of the Imperial Parliament should be obtained to give this authority to insolvency proceedings in India, but no such Act has as yet been passed. It is believed, however, that the advantages conferred by the Act of 1848 are of no real value, since experience has shown that in practically every case in which there are assets in both.....

Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Part II

Title: Proceedings from Act of Insolvency to Discharge

State: Central

Year: 1909

.....Insolvency and the Provincial Insolvency (Bombay Amendment) Act, 1939 (Bom.15 of 1939), s.2} Explanation.For the purposes of this section, the act of an agent may be the act of the principal, even though the agent have no specific authority to commit the act.{For s.9A, applicable to Bombay only, see s.2, ibid.} Section 10 - Power to adjudicate Subject to the conditions specified in this Act, if a debtor commits an act of insolvency, an insolvency petition may be presented either by a creditor or by the debtor, and the Court may on such petition make an order (hereinafter called an order of adjudication) adjudging him an insolvent. Explanation.The presentation of a petition by the debtor shall be deemed an act of insolvency within the meaning of this section, and on such petition the Court may make an order of adjudication. Section 11 - Restrictions on jurisdiction The Court shall not have jurisdiction to make an order of adjudication, unless (a) the debtor is, at the time of the presentation of the insolvency petition, imprisoned in execution of the decree of a Court for the payment of money in any prison to which debtors are ordinarily committed by the Court in.....

Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Part III

Title: Administration of Property

State: Central

Year: 1909

.....of the act of insolvency on which an order of adjudication is made against him, or (b) if the insolvent is proved to have committed more acts of insolvency than one, the time of the first of the acts of insolvency proved to have been committed by the insolvent within three months next preceding the date of the presentation of the insolvency petition: Provided that no insolvency petition or order of adjudication shall be rendered invalid by reason of any act of insolvency committed anterior to the debt of the petitioning creditor. Section 52 - Description of insolvents property divisible amongst creditors (1) The property of the insolvent divisible amongst his creditors, and in this Act referred to as the property of the insolvent, shall not comprise the following particulars, namely: (a) property held by the insolvent on trust for any other a person; (b) the tools (if any) of his trade and the necessary wearing apparel, bedding, cooking vessel, and furniture of himself, his wife and children, to a value, inclusive of tools and apparel and other necessaries as aforesaid, not exceeding three hundred rupees in the whole. (2) Subject as aforesaid, the property.....

Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Section 13

Title: Proceedings and Order on Creditors Petition

State: Central

Year: 1909

.....the petition and order service thereof on the debtor. (4) The Court shall dismiss the petition (a) if it is not satisfied with the proof of the facts referred to in sub-section (2); or (b) if the debtor appears and satisfies the Court that he is able to pay his debts, or that he has not committed an act of insolvency or that for other sufficient cause no order ought to be made. (5) The Court may make an order of adjudication if it is satisfied with the proof above referred to, or if on a hearing adjourned under sub-section (3) the debtor does not appear and service of the petition on him is proved, unless in its opinion the petition ought to have been presented before some other Court having insolvency jurisdiction. (6) Where the debtor appears on the petition and denies that he is indebted to the petitioner, or that he is indebted to such an amount as would justify the petitioner in presenting a petition against him, the Court, on such security (if any) being given as the Court may require for payment to the petitioner of any debt which may be established against the debtor in due course of law, and of the costs of establishing the debt, may, instead of dismissing the.....

Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Section 39

Title: Cases in Which the Court Must Refuse an Absolute Discharge

State: Central

Year: 1909

.....the insolvent has committed any offence under this Act, or under sections 421 to 424 of the Indian Penal Code, and shall, on proof of any of the facts hereinafter mentioned, either-- (a) refuse the discharge; or (b) suspend the discharge for a specified time; or (c) suspend the discharge until a dividend of not less than four annas in the rupee has been paid to the creditors; or (d) require the insolvent as a condition of his discharge to consent to a decree being passed against him in favour of the official assignee for any balance or part of any balance of the debts provable under the insolvency which is not satisfied at the date of his discharge; such balance or part of any balance of the debts to be paid out of the future earnings or after-acquired property of the insolvent in such manner and subject to such conditions as the Court may direct; but in that case the decree shall not be executed without leave of the Court, which leave may be given on proof that the insolvent has since his discharge acquired property or income available for payment of his debts. (2) The facts hereinbefore referred to are (a) that the insolvent's assets are not of a value equal to.....

Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Section 62

Title: Disclaimer of Onerous Property

State: Central

Year: 1909

.....of any other property that is unsaleable, or not readily saleable, by reason of its binding the possessor thereof to the performance of any onerous act or to the payment of any sum of money, the official assignee may, notwithstanding that he may have endeavoured to sell or have taken possession of the property, or exercised any act of ownership in relation thereto, but subject always to the provisions hereinafter contained in that behalf, by writing signed by him, at any time within twelve months after the insolvent has been adjudged insolvent, disclaim the property: Provided that, where any such property has not come to the knowledge of the official assignee within one month after such adjudication as aforesaid, he may disclaim the property at any time within twelve months after he has first become aware thereof. (2) The disclaimer shall operate to determine, as from the date thereof, the rights, interest and liabilities of the insolvent and his property in or in respect of the property disclaimed, and shall also discharge the official assignee from all personal liability in respect of the property disclaimed as from the date when the property vested in him, but shall not,.....

Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Section 65

Title: Power for Court to Rescind Contract

State: Central

Year: 1909

The Court may, on the application of any person who is, as against the official assignee, entitled to the benefit or subject to the burden of a contract made with the insolvent, make an order rescinding the contract on such terms as to payment by or to either party of damages for the non-performance of the contract, or otherwise, as to the Court may seem equitable, and any damages payable under the order to any such person may be proved by him as a debt under the insolvency.

Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Section 12

Title: Conditions on Which Creditor May Petition

State: Central

Year: 1909

.....if two or more creditors join in the petition, the aggregate amount of debts owing to such creditors, amounts to five hundred rupees, and (b) the debt is a liquidated sum payable either immediately or at some certain future time, and (c) the act of insolvency on which the petition is grounded has occurred within three months before the presentation of the petition: {Added by Act 3 of 1950, s.2} [Provided that where the said period of three months referred to in clause (c) expires on a day when the Court is closed, the insolvency petition may be presented on the day on which the Court reopens]. (2) If the petitioning creditor is a secured creditor, he shall in his petition either state that he is willing to relinquish his security for the benefit of the creditors in the event of the debtor being adjudged insolvent or give an estimate of the value of the security.In the latter case he may be admitted as a petitioning creditor to the extent of the balance of the debt due to him after deducting the value so estimated in the same way as if he were an unsecured creditor.

Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Section 15

Title: Proceedings and Order on Debtors Petition

State: Central

Year: 1909

(l) A debtor's petition shall allege that the debtor is unable to pay his debts, and, if the debtor proves that he is entitled to present the petition, the Court may thereupon make an order of adjudication, unless in its opinion the petition ought to have been presented before some other Court having insolvency jurisdiction. (2) A debtor's petition shall not, after presentation, be withdrawn without the leave of the Court. {Ins.by Act 19 of 1927, s.3} [(3) On the making of the order admitting his petition.a debtor shall (a) unless the Court otherwise directs, produce all his books of account, and (b) file such lists of creditors and debtors and afford such assistance to the Court as may be prescribed, failing which the Court may dismiss his petition.]

Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Part VI

Title: Procedure

State: Central

Year: 1909

.....nothing in this sub-section shall in any way limit the jurisdiction conferred on the Court under this Act. (2) Subject to the provisions of this Act and rules, the costs of and incidental to any proceeding in the Court shall be in the discretion of the Court. (3) The Court may at any time adjourn any proceedings before it upon such terms, if any, as it thinks fit to impose. (4) The Court may at any time amend any written process or proceeding under this Act upon such terms, if any, as it thinks fit to impose. (5) Where by this Act or by rules the time for doing any act or thing is limited, the Court may extend the time either before or after the expiration thereof, upon such terms, if any, as the Court thinks fit to impose. (6) Subject to rules, the Court may in any matter take the whole or any part of the evidence either viva voce or by interrogatories, or upon affidavit, or by commission. (7) For the purpose of approving a composition or scheme by joint debtors the Court may, if it thinks fit, and on the report of the official assignee that it is expedient so to do, dispense with the public examination of one of the joint debtors if he is unavoidably prevented.....