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Indian Divorce Act, 1869 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1869

.....upon certain Courts jurisdiction matters matrimonial; It is hereby enacted as follows :-I-PRELIMINARY SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, COMMENCEMENT OF ACT This Act may be called the3[***] Divorce Act and shall come into operation on the first day of April, 1869. SECTION 02: EXTENT OF ACT 4 [This Act extends to the whole of India5[except the State of Jammu and Kashmir].] Extent of power to grant relief generally,6[Nothing hereinafter contained shall authorise any Court to grant any relief under this Act except where the petitioner7[or respondent] professes the Christian religion. and to make decrees of dissolution, or to make decrees of dissolution of marriage except where the parties to the marriage are domiciled in India at the time when the petition is presented, or of nullity or to make decrees of nullity of marriage except where the marriage has been solemnized in India and the petitioner is resident in India at the time of presenting the petition, or to grant any relief under this Act, other than a decree of dissolution of marriage or of nullity of marriage, except where the petitioner resides in India at the time of presenting the petition.] SECTION 03: INTERPRETATION.....

Church of Scotland Kirk Sessions Act, 1899 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1899

.....such Kirk Sessions and any others which may hereafter be so constituted, should bt incorporated with the powers hereinafter provided; It is hereby enacted as follows:- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE AND EXTENT (1) This Act may be called The Church of Scotland Kirk Sessions Act 1899-, (2) It extends to the whole of India except 3[the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1936, were comprised in Part B States]4[* *]. 4[(3)* * * *] SECTION 02: SCOTCH KIRK SESSIONS TO BE BODIES CORPORATE (1) Every Kirk Sessions which has been. or may hereafter be, duly constituted to be a Church Court for ecclesiastical purposes in pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, is hereby declared to be, and the same shall be, a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal. (2) A notification by the Central Government in the Official Gazette that a Kirk Session has been duly constituted5in pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland shall be conclusive proof that it has been so constituted. SECTION 03: POWER TO HOLD AND DISPOSE OF PROPERTY (1) Every Kirk Session constituted as aforesaid shall, as a body.....

Church of Scotland Kirk Sessions Act, 1899 Preamble 1

Title: The Church of Scotland Kirk Sessions Act, 1899

State: Central

Year: 1899

THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND KIRK SESSIONS Act, 1899 [Act, No.23 of 1899] [27th September, 1899.] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Kirk Sessions of the Church of Scotland in { Substituted by the A, O, 1950 for "the Provinces"} [India]. WHEREAS there are in{ Subs. by the A, O, 1950 for "the Provinces".} [India] Kirk Sessions of the Church of Scotland which have been duly constituted to be Church Courts for ecclesiastical purposes in pursuance of Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland; And whereas it is expedient that such Kirk Sessions and any others which may hereafter be so constituted, should be incorporated with the powers hereinafter provided; It is hereby enacted as follows:--

Church of Scotland Kirk Sessions Act, 1899 Section 2

Title: Scotch Kirk Sessions to Be Bodies Corporate

State: Central

Year: 1899

.....{For notification declaring the Kirk Sessions at Calcutta Madras, Bombay and Allahabad to be duly constituted, see Gazette of Indian 1900 , Pt.I, p.706 respect of the Kirk Session Simla and the Kirk Session at Simla and the Kirk Session at Poona, see ibid 1905, Pt, I p, 706 respectively.} in pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, is hereby declared to be and the same shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal. (2) A notification by the Central Government in the Official Gazette that a Kirk Session has been duly constituted {For notification declaring the Kirk Sessions at Calcutta Madras, Bombay and Allahabad to be duly constituted, see Gazette of Indian 1900 , Pt.I, p.706 respect of the Kirk Session Simla and the Kirk Session at Simla and the Kirk Session at Poona, see ibid 1905, Pt, I p, 706 respectively.} In pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland shall be conclusive proof that it has been so constituted.

Divorce Act, 1869 Chapter 2

Title: Jurisdiction

State: Central

Year: 1869

.....in any High Court, shall be dealt with and decided by such court, so far as may be, as if they had been originally instituted therein under this Act. Section 7 - Court to act on principles of English Divorce Court(Repealed) [Reply by the Indian Divorce (Amendment) Act, (51 of 2001, section 4 (w.e.f. 3-10-2001).] Section 8 - Extraordinary jurisdiction of High Court The High Court may, whenever it thinks fit, remove and try and determine as a court of original jurisdiction any suit or proceeding instituted under this Act in the court of any District Judge within the limits of its jurisdiction under this Act. Power to transfer suits - This High Court may also withdraw any such suit or proceeding, and transfer it for trial or disposal to the Court of any other such District Judge Section 9 - Reference to High Court When any question of law or usage having the force of law arises at any point in the proceedings previous to the hearing of any suit under this Act by a District Court or at any subsequent stage of such suit, or in the execution of the decree therein or order thereon, the Court may, either of its own motion or on the application of any of the parties,.....

Divorce Act, 1869 Section 5

Title: Enforcement of Decrees or Orders Made Heretofore by Supreme Court or High Court

State: Central

Year: 1869

Any decree or order of the late Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta, Madras or Bombay sitting on the ecclesiastical side, or of any of the said High Courts sitting in the exercise of their matrimonial jurisdiction, respectively, in any cause or matter matrimonial, may be enforced and dealt with by the said High Courts, respec­tively, as hereinafter mentioned, in like manner as if such decree or order had been originally made under this Act by the Court so enforcing or dealing with the same.

British Law Ascertainment Act, 1859 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1859

.....shall be the opinion of such Court, that it is necessary or expedient for the proper disposal of such action to ascertain the law applicable to the facts of the case as administered in any other part of Her Majesty's dominions on any point on which the law of such other part of Her Majesty's dominions is different from that in which the Court is situate, it shall be competent to the Court in which such action may depend to direct a case to be prepared setting forth the facts, as these may be ascertained by verdict of a jury or other mode competent, or may be agreed upon by the parties, or settled by such person or persons as may have been appointed by the Court for that purpose in the event of the parties not agreeing and upon such case being approved of by such Court or a Judge thereof, they shall settle the questions of law arising out of the same on which they desire to have the opinion of another Court, and shall pronounce another remitting the same, together with the case, to the Court in such other part of Her Majesty's dominions, being one of the superior Courts thereof, whose opinion is desired upon the law administered by them as applicable to the facts set forth in.....

Foreign Law Ascertainment Act, 1861 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1861

.....by an officer of such Court, shall be given to each of the parties to the action by whom the same shall be required. SECTION 04: INTERPRETATION OF TERMS In the construction of this Act the word "action" shall include every judicial proceeding instituted in any Court, civil, criminal, or ecclesiastical; and the words "Superior Courts" shall include. in England, the Superior Courts of Law at West minister, the Lord Chancellor, the Lords Justices, the Master of the Rolls, or any Vice-Chancellor, the Judge of the Court of Admiralty, the Judge ordinary of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, and the Judge of the Court of Probate, in Scotland, the High Court of Justiciary, and the Court of Session, acting by either of its divisions; in Ireland, the Superior Courts of Law at Dublin, the Master of the Rolls and the Judge of the Admiralty Court; and in any other part of Her Majesty's dominions, the Superior Courts of Law or Equity therein; and in a foreign country or State, any Superior Court or Courts which shall be set forth in any such convention between Her Majesty and the Government of such foreign country or State. Central Bare Acts

Government of India Act, 1800 [Repealed] Section 2

Title: Letters Patent of George 2, Dated the 8th January, in the 21st Year of His Reign

State: Central

Year: 1800

.....time to time by his Majesty, his heirs and successors, with full power to exercise such civil criminal admiralty and ecclesiastical jurisdictions, both as to natives and British subjects, and to be invested with such power and authorities, privileges and immunities, for the better administration of the same, and subject to the same limitations, restrictions and control within the said Fort Saint George and town of Madras and the limits thereof and the factories sub ordinate thereto, and within the territories which now are or hereafter may be subject to or dependent upon the said government of Madras, as the said supreme court of judicature at Fort William in Bengal, by virtue of any law now in force and unrepealed or by this present Act, doth consist of, is invested with or subject to, within the said Fort William or the kingdoms or provinces of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.

Government of India Act, 1800 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1800

.....under and by virtue of this Act to any such judge or recorder respectively shall cease and be no longer paid, anything herein or in any former Act or Acts contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. Section 10: Rep. 55 and 56 Vict., c. 19 (S. L. R.); rep., also as to B. 1. by 14 of 1870, s. 1 and sch. Section 11: Rep. 55 and 56 Vict., c. 19 (S. L. R.); rep., also as to B. 1. by 14 of 1870, s. 1 and sch. Section 12: If the governor general of Fort William or the governor of Fort St. George or of Bombay snail signify his intended absence from the council, the senior member present shall preside; but no act of such council shall be valid, unless signed by the governor general or governor respectively, if resiaent at the presidency and not presented by indisposition; and if not so prevented and he shall refuse to sign, he and the members who shall have signed shall mutually communicate the grounds of their opinions as directed by 33 George 3, c. 32, in cases where he shall, when present, dis- sent from the council. The governor general, when absent, may nominate a vice-president and deputy governor of fort William.11. Section 12 in so far as it relates to.....