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Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act 2007 Chapter IV

Title: Warehouse Receipts

State: Central

Year: 2007

.....warehouseman claims his lien; (n) date and signature of the warehouseman or his authorised agent; (o) declared shelf-life of goods; (p) the fact that the warehouseman holds the lien on the goods deposited for his storage and handling charges; and (q) that the receipt would be valid only till the date of expiry of declared shelf-life of the goods for which it is issued. (2) In case a warehouseman wilfully omits from a negotiable warehouse receipt any of the particulars set out in sub-section (1), he shall be liable for damages caused by such omission. (3) No warehouse receipt shall, by reason of the omission only of any of the particulars set-forth in sub-section (1), be deemed to be invalid for the purpose of settlement of disputes or claims. (4) Authority may, with the prior approval of the Central Government, add, delete or modify any particulars as specified in sub-clause (1) for all or any commodity or class of commodities or for any class of warehouses. Section 12 - Negotiability of warehouse receipts (1) The words in a negotiable warehouse receipt limiting its negotiability shall be void. (2) A warehouseman who issues a non-negotiable warehouse.....

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Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2007 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2007

.....the warehouseman claims his lien; (n) date and signature of the warehouseman or his authorised agent; (o) declared shelf-life of goods; (p) the fact that the warehouseman holds the lien on the goods deposited for his storage and handling charges; and (q) that the receipt would be valid only till the date of expiry of declared shelf-life of the goods for which it is issued. (2) In case a warehouseman wilfully omits from a negotiable warehouse receipt any of the particulars set out in sub-section (1), he shall be liable for damages caused by such omission. (3) No warehouse receipt shall, by reason of the omission only of any of the particulars set-forth in sub-section (1), be deemed to be invalid for the purpose of settlement of disputes or claims. (4) Authority may, with the prior approval of the Central Government, add, delete or modify any particulars as specified in sub-clause (1) for all or any commodity or class of commodities or for any class of warehouses. Section 12 Negotiability of warehouse receipts (1) The words in a negotiable warehouse receipt limiting its negotiability shall be void. (2) A warehouseman who issues a non-negotiable warehouse receipt shall.....

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Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act 2007 Section 17

Title: Negotiation of Warehouse Receipt Not Impaired by Fraud, Mistake Orduress

State: Central

Year: 2007

The validity of the negotiation of a receipt is not impaired by the fact that-- (a) the negotiation was a breach of duty on the part of the person making the negotiation; or (b) the owner of the receipt was induced by fraud, mistake or duress to entrust the possession or custody of the receipt to that person, if the person to whom the receipt was negotiated or a person to whom the receipt was subsequently negotiated, paid value for it without knowing of the breach of duty, fraud, mistake or duress.

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Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....must be filled up within a reasonable time and, strictly in accordance with the authority given. Reasonable time, for this purpose, is a question of fact: Provided that if any such instrument after completion is negotiated to a holder in due course, it shall be valid and effectual for all purposes in his hands and he may enforce it as if it had been filled up within a reasonable time and strictly in accordance with the authority given. SECTION 21: DELIVERY (1) Every contract on a bill, whether it be the drawer's, the acceptor's, or an indoeser's, is incomplete and revocable until delivery of the instrument in order to give effect thereto : Provided that where an acceptance is written on a bill, and the drawee gives notice to or according to the directions of the persons entitled to the bill that he has accepted it, the acceptance then becomes complete and irrevocable. (2) As between immediate parties, and as regards a remote party other than a holder in due course, the delivery- (a) in order to be effectual must be made either by or under the authority of the party drawing, accepting or indorsing, as the case may be; (b) may be shown to have been conditional or for a.....

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Court-fees Act, 1870 Chapter III

Title: Fees in Other Courts and in Public Offices

State: Central

Year: 1870

.....a review of judgment is admitted, and where, on the rehearing, the Court reverses or modifies its former decision on the ground of mistake in law or fact, the applicant shall be entitled to a certificate from the Court authorizing him to receive back from the Collector so much of the fee paid on the1[application] as exceeds the fee payable on any other application to such Court under the Second Schedule to this Act, No. 1, clause (b) or clause (d). But nothing in the former part of this section shall entitle the applicant the applicant to such certificate where the reversal or modification is due, wholly or in part, to fresh evidence which might have been produced at the original hearing. _____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 20 of 1870, see. 1, for "plaint or memorandum of appeal". Section 16 - Refund of fee 1[16. Refund of fee.-- Where the court refers the parties to the suit to any one of the mode of settlement of dispute referred to in section 89 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), the plaintiff shall be entitled to a certificate from the court authorising him to receive back from the collector, the full amount of the fee paid.....

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Court-fees Act, 1870 Section 19

Title: Exemption of Certain Documents

State: Central

Year: 1870

.....law for the time being in force relating to the acquisition of property for public purposes. (xxiii) Petitions presented to the Special Commissioner appointed under 7 Bengal Act No. 2 of 1869 (to ascertain, regulate and record certain tenures in Chota Nagpur). 8 [(xxiv) Petitions under the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872, sections 45 and 48 _____________________________ 1. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "by an officer, warrant-officer, non-commissioned officer or private of Her Majesty's Army". 2. Clause (ii) rep. by Act 12 of 1891, Section 2 and Schedule I. 3. Clause (iv) rep. by Act 13 of 1889, Section 2 and Schedule 4. See the Madras Village Courts Act, 1889 (Madras Act 1 of 1889). 5. Substituted by Act 7 of 1889, Section 13(2), for "and certificate mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act annexed, No. 12" 6. The Bengal Chaukidari Act, 1856. 7. The Chota Nagpur Tenures Act, 1869. 8. Substituted by Act 15 of 1872, Section 2, for the original clause.

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Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act 2007 Complete Act

Title: Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act 2007

State: Central

Year: 2007

..... Section41 - Power of Central Government to supersede Authority Chapter IX Section42 - Appeals to Appellate Authority Chapter X Section43 - Offences and penalties Section44 - Offences by companies Section45 - Cognizance of offences by courts Chapter XI Section46 - Chairperson, member, officers and other employees of Authority to be public servants Section47 - Protection of action taken in good faith Section48 - Delegation of powers Section49 - Exemption from tax on wealth and income Section50 - Power of Central Government to make rules Section51 - Power of Authority to make regulations Section52 - Rules and regulations to be laid before parliament Section53 - Act to have overriding effect Section54 - Powers to remove difficulties Section55 - Amendment of Act 2 of 1899

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Karnataka Court-fees and Suits Valuation Act, 1958 Chapter VII

Title: Refunds and Remissions

State: Karnataka

Year: 1958

.....(1) shall be laid as soon as may be after it is published in the official Gazette before the state Legislative Assembly while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions and if before the expiry of that period, the state Legislative Assembly makes any modification in the notification or directs that the notification shall not have effect, the notification shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be. ____________________ 1. Sub-section (1) substituted by Section 6 of Act No. 10 of 1964, w.e.f. 5-3-1964. 2. Adapted by the Karnataka Adaptations of Laws Order, 1973, w.e.f. 1-11-1973.

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Karnataka Court-fees and Suits Valuation Act, 1958 Section 69

Title: Exemption of Certain Documents

State: Karnataka

Year: 1958

.....or other person in duress orunder restraint of any court or its officer; (xiii) complaint of a public servant as defined in the IndianPenal Code (Central Act XLV of 1860) or an officer of the State Railway; (xiv) application for permission to cut and remove timber inGovernment forests or otherwise relating to such forests, not beingapplications from forest contractors for extending the period of their leases; (xv) application for the payment of money due by theGovernment to the applicant, other than an application for refund of lapseddeposit made six months after the date on which the amount lapsed to theGovernment; (xvi) petition of appeal against any municipal tax; (xvii) application for compensation under any law, for thetime being in force relating to the acquisition of property for publicpurposes; (xviii) petition under section 48 of the Indian ChristianMarriage Act, 1872 (Central Act XV of 1872); (xix) petition or appeal by a Government servant or a servantof the Court of Wards when presented to any superior officer or Governmentagainst orders of dismissal, reduction or suspension; copies of such ordersfiled with such appeals, and applications for.....

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Bombay Court-fees Act, 1959, (Maharashtra) Section 20

Title: Exemption of Certain Documents

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1959

.....to the Court under section 543 of the Companies Act, 1956, chargeable with any fee:- Provided that, if the applicant succeeds, the person, director, managing agent, secretary and treasurer, manager, liquidator or officer of the company concerned against whom an order is made by the Court under that section, shall be liable to pay the feel eviable on a plaint in a suit for the same relief as is ordered by the Court; and the amount of such fee shall, without prejudice to any other mode of recovery, be recoverable as an arrear of land revenue. ________________________ 1. Section 20 was renumbered as sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) was added by Maharashtra Act 18 of 1960,sec. 2. [for Maharashtra].

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