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Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964 Section 4

Title: State to Be Divided into Divisions, Divisions into Districts and Districts to Consist of Taluks Comprising Circles and Villages

State: Karnataka

Year: 1964

(1) The State Government may, by notification, determine the areas in the State which shall form a division and may, by notification, alter the limits of or abolish the division so formed. (2) Each division shall be divided into such districts with such limits, as may, by notification, be determined by the State Government. (3) Each district determined under sub-section (2) shall consist of such taluks and each taluk shall consist of such circles and each circle shall consist of such villages as may, by notification, be determined by the State Government. (4) The State Government may, by notification, alter the limits of anydistrict, taluk or circle and may create new, or abolish existing districts, taluks or circles. (5) The divisions, districts, taluks, circles (by whatever name called) and villages as they exist immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall remain as they are for the purposes of this Act until altered by the State Government by notifications under sub-sections (1), (2), (3) and (4).

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 45

Title: Partial Failure of Consideration Not Consisting of Money

State: Central

Year: 1881

Where a part of the consideration for which a person signed a promissory note, bill of exchange or cheque, though not consisting of money, is ascertainable in money without collateral enquiry, and there has been a failure of that party, the sum which a holder standing in immediate relation with such signer is entitled to receive from him is proportionally reduced.

Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 54

Title: Effect of Default as to That Promise Which Should Be First Performed, in Contract Consisting of Reciprocal Promises

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....A does not provide any cargo for the ship. A cannot claim the performance of B's promise, and must make compensation to B for the loss which B sustains by the non-performance of the contract. (b) A contracts with B to execute certain builder's work for a fixed price, B supplying the scaffolding and timber necessary for the work. B refuses to furnish any scaffolding or timber, and the work cannot be executed. A need not execute the work, and B is bound to make compensation to A for any loss caused to him by the non-performance of the contract. (c) A contracts with B to deliver to him, at a specified price, certain merchandise on board a ship which cannot arrive for a month, and B engages to pay for the merchandise within a week from the date of the contract. B does not pay within the week. A's promise to deliver need not be performed, and B must make compensation. (d) A promises B to sell him one hundred bales of merchandise, to be delivered next day, and B promises A to pay for them within a month. A does not deliver according to his promise. B's promise to pay need not be performed, and A must make compensation.

Customs Act, 1962 Section 19

Title: Determination of Duty Where Goods Consist of Articles Liable to Different Rates of Duty

State: Central

Year: 1962

Except as otherwise provided in any law for the time being in force, where goods consist of a set of articles, duty shall be calculated as follows : (a) articles liable to duty with reference to quantity shall be chargeable to that duty ; (b) articles liable to duty with reference to value shall, if they are liable to duty at the same rate, be chargeable to duty at that rate, and if they are liable to duty at different rates, be chargeable to duty at the highest of such rates ; (c) articles not liable to duty shall be chargeable to duty at the rate at which articles liable to duty with reference to value are liable under clause (b) : Provided that, (a) accessories of, and spare parts or maintenance and repairing implements for, any article which satisfy the conditions specified in the rules made in this behalf shall be chargeable at the same rate of duty as that article; (b) if the importer produces evidence to the satisfaction of the proper officer regarding the value of any of the articles liable to different rates of duty, such article shall be chargeable to duty separately at the rate applicable to it.

Bombay City Civil Court Act, 1948, (Maharashtra) Section 7

Title: Powers of Judges when City Court Consists of More Than One Judge

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1948

When the City Court consists of more than one Judge-- (a) each of the Judges may exercise all or any of the powers conferred on the Court by this Act or any other law for the time being in force: (b) the1[State] Government may appoint any one of the Judges to be the principal Judge2[and any two other Judges to be called the additional principal Judge]; (c) the principal Judge may from time to time make such arrangements as he may think fit for the distribution of the business of the court among the various Judges thereof; 3[(d)4[any additional principal Judge] may exercise all or any of the powers conferred on the principal Judge by this Act or any other law for the time being in force, as the High Court may, from time to time, direct.] _____________________ 1. The word "State" was substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950. 2. The words were substituted for the word "and any other Judge to be the additional principal Judge" by Mah. 15 of 1979, s. 2 (a). 3. Clause (d) was added by Mah. 29 of 1968, s. 2(6). 4. These words were substituted for the words "the additional principal Judge" by Mah. 15 of 1979, s. 2(b).

Bombay Merged Territories Miscellaneous Alienations Abolition Act, 1955, (Maharashtra) Section 14

Title: Compensation in Respect of Alienation Consisting of Assignment of Land Revenue

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1955

(1) In the case of an alienation consisting of assignment the whole or part of the land revenue of any land or village- (i) if the alienation was continuable as hereditary without being subjected to any deduction or cut at the time of each succession, a sum equal to seven times the amount of such land revenue, (ii) if the alienation was continuable as hereditary but subject to a deduction or cut at the time of each succession, a sum equal to five times the amount of such land revenue, and (iii) if the alienation was continuable for the life time of the alienee, as sum equal to three times the amount of such land revenue, shall be paid to the alienee as compensation for the abolition of the alienation. (2) For the purpose of sub-section (1), the amount of land revenue shall be the amount received or due to the alienee on account of assignment of land revenue for the year immediately preceding the appointed date.

Income Tax Act, 1961 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1961

.....data stored in a floppy, disc, tape or any other form of electro-magnetic data storage device;] (13) "business" includes any trade, commerce or manufacture or any adventure or concern in the nature of trade, commerce or manufacture; (14)"capital asset" means property of any kind held by an assessee, whether or not connected with his business or profession, but does not include- (i) any stock-in-trade, consumable stores or raw materials held for the purposes of his business or profession; 29 The following shall be substituted by the Finance Act, 2007, w.e.f. 01.04.2008. "(ii) personal effects, that is to say, movable property (including wearing apparel and furniture) held for personal use by the assessee or any member of his family dependent on him, but excludes- (a) jewellery; (b) archaeological collections; (c) drawings; (d) paintings; (e) sculptures; or (f) any work of art. Explanation.--For the purposes of this sub-clause, "jewellery" includes-- (a) ornaments made of gold, silver, platinum or any other precious metal or any alloy containing one or more of such precious metals, whether or not containing any precious or semi-precious stone, and whether or not worked or sewn.....

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....as such Magistrate, exercised the powers of an Assistant Sessions Judge, he may be invested with the powers under this section notwithstanding the fact that he has not exercised the powers of Magistrate of the first class for not less than ten years." Act 19 of 1969, Section 3 and Schedule, Item 14 (in Delhi on 2-10-1969). WEST BENGAL In its application to the State of West Bengal, for Section 30, substitute the following, namely: "30. Offences punishment with imprisonment not exceeding seven years.-Notwithstanding any thing contained in Section 28 or Section 29, the State Government may, in consultation with the High Court, invest any Judicial Magistrate of the first class with power to try as a Magistrate all offences not punishable with death or with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment for a term exceeding seven years : Provided that no Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such powers unless he has, for not less than ten years, exercised powers not inferior to those of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class : Provided further that if any Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such Magistrate,.....

Companies Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....the same activity as that carried on by the head office of the company; or (c) any establishment engaged in any production, processing or manufacture, but does not include any establishment specified in any order made by the Central Government under (section 8);] (10) "company" means a company as defined in (section 3); [(10A) "Company Law Board" means the Board of Company Law Administration constituted under (section 10E);] [(11) "the Court" means,- (a) with respect to any matter relating to a company (other than any offence against this Act), the Court having jurisdiction under this Act with respect to that matter relating to that company, as provided in (section 10) ; (b) with respect to any offence against this Act, the Court of a Magistrate of the First Class or, as the case may be, a Presidency Magistrate, having jurisdiction to try such offence ;] (12) "debenture" includes debenture stock, bonds and any other securities of a company, whether constituting a charge on the assets of the company or not; [(12A) "depository" has the same meaning as in the (Depositories Act, 1996) (22 of 1996); (12B) "derivative" has the same meaning as in clause (aa) of (S.2.....

Constitution of India Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1949

.....against the order. (6) Nothing in Cl. (5) shall require the authority making any such order as is referred to in that clause to disclose facts which such authority considers to be against the public interest to disclose. (7) Parliament may by law prescribe,- (a) the circumstances under which, and the class or classes of cases in which, a person may be detained for a period longer than three months under any law providing for preventive detention without obtaining the opinion of an Advisory Board in accordance with the provisions of sub-clause (a) of Cl. (4); (b) the maximum period for which any person may in any class or classes of cases be detained under any law providing for preventive detention; and (c) the procedure to be followed by an Advisory Board in any inquiry under sub-clause (a.) of Cl. (4). ARTICLE 23: Prohibition of traffic in human beings and forced labour: Traffic in human beings and begar and other similar forms of forced labour are prohibited and any contravention of this provision shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law. (2) Nothing in this article shall prevent the State from imposing compulsory service for public purposes, and in.....