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Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 Section 4

Title: Interpretation Clause

State: Central

Year: 1855

The following words and expressions are intendedto have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, so far as suchmeanings are not excluded by the context or by the nature of the subject-matter,that is to say 1 [** * * *] the word "person" shall apply to bodies politic andcorporate; and the word "parent" shall include father and mother2 , andgrand-lather and grand-mother, and the word "child" shall include sonand daughter, and grand-son and grand-daughter, and step-son and step-daughter. ________________________ 1. Certain words repealed by Act 10 of 1914, Schedule II. 2.Step-father and step-mother are designedly omitted.

Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 Section 1A

Title: Suit for Compensation to the Family of a Person for Loss Occasioned to It by His Death by Actionable Wrong

State: Central

Year: 1855

.....administrator or representative of the person deceased; and in every such action, the court may give such damages as it may think proportioned to the loss resulting from such death to the parties respectively, for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought, and the amount so recovered, after deducting all costs and expenses, including the costs not recovered from the defendant, shall be divided amongst the before-mentioned parties, or any of them, in such shares as the court by its judgment or decree shall direct. _______________________ 1. Original section 1 renumbered as section 1A by Act 3 of 1951, section 3 and Schedule 2. The words "And it is enacted further, that" repealed by Act 10 of 1914, Schedule II.

Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1855

.....excluded by the context or by the nature of the subject-matter; that is to say,6[* * *] the word "person" shall apply to bodies politic and corporate; and the word "parent" shall include father and mother, grand-father and grand- mother; and the word "child" shall include son and daughter, and grand-son and grand-daughter, and step-son and step-daughter. Footnotes: 2. Inserted by the Part B Stales (Laws) Act, 1951. 3. Section I renumbered as section 1A Act, 1951 . 4. The words 'And it is enacted further that" omitted by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914. 5. The words "and that every such action shall be brought within twelve calendar months after the death of such deceased person" omitted by the Indian Limitation Act, 1871. For limitation, see now the Indian Limitation Act, 1908 (9 of 1908). 6. Certain words omitted by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914. Central Bare Acts

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 390

Title: Robbery

State: Central

Year: 1860

In all robbery there is either theft or extortion. When theft is robbery.--Theft is "robbery" if, in order to the committing of the theft, or in committing the theft, or in carving away or attempting to carry away property obtained by the theft, the offender, for that end, voluntarily causes or attempts to cause to any person death or hurl or wrongful restraint, or fear of instant death or of instant hurt, or of instant wrongful restraint. When extortion is robbery.--Extortion is "robbery" if the offender, at the time of committing the extortion, is in the presence of the person put in fear, and commits the extortion by putting that person in fear of instant death, of instant hurt, or of instant wrongful restraint to that person or to some other person, and, by so putting in fear, induces the person so put in fear then and there to deliver up the thing extorted. Explanation.--The offender is said to be present if he is sufficiently near to put the other person in fear of instant death, of instant hurt, or of instant wrongful restraint. Illustrations (a) A holds Z down and fraudulently takes Z's money and jewels from Z's clothes without Z's consent. Here A has committed.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 317

Title: Exposure and Abandonment of Child Under Twelve Years, by Parent or Person Having Care of It

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever being the father or mother of a child under the age of twelve years, or having the care of such child, shall expose or leave such child in any place with the intention of wholly abandoning such child, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both. Explanation.--This section is not intended to prevent the trial of the offender for murder or culpable homicide, as the case may be, if the child die in consequence of the exposure.

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 310

Title: Thug

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever, at any time after the passing of this Act, shall have been habitually associated with any other or others for the purpose of committing robbery or child-stealing by means of or accompanied with murder, is a thug.

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 312

Title: Causing Miscarriage

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever voluntarily causes a woman with child to miscarry, shall, if such miscarriage be not caused in good faith for the purpose of saving the life of the woman, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both; and, if the woman be quick with child, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine. Explanation.--A woman who causes herself to miscarry, is within the meaning of section.

INDIAN PENAL CODE (45 OF 1860) Section 313

Title: Causing miscarriage without woman's consent

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever commits the offence defined in the last preceding section without the consent of the woman, whether the woman is quick with child or not, shall be punished with 1 [imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. _______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for 'transportation for life" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956).

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 314

Title: Death Caused by Act Done with Intent to Cause Miscarriage

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever, with intent to cause the miscarriage of a woman with child, does any net which causes the death of such woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine; If act done without woman's consent.--And if the act is done without the consent of the woman, shall be punished either with 1 [imprisonment for life], or with the punishment above mentioned. Explanation.--It is not essential to this offence that the offender should know that the act is likely to cause death. _______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for 'transportation for life" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956).

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 315

Title: Act Done with Intent to Prevent Child Being Born Alive or to Cause It to Die After Birth

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever before the birth of any child does any act with the intention of thereby preventing that child from being born alive or causing it to die after its birth, and does by such act prevent that child from being born alive, or causes it to die after its birth, shall, if such act be not caused in good faith for the purpose of saving the life of the mother, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, or with fine, or with both.