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Calcutta High Court (Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919 Complete Act

Title: Calcutta High Court (Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919

State: Central

Year: 1919

Preamble1 - CALCUTTA HIGH COURT (JURISDICTIONAL LIMITS) ACT, 1919 Section1 - Short title Section2 - Limits of ordinary original civil jurisdiction. Schedule1 - THE SCHEDULE

Calcutta High Court (Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919 Preamble 1

Title: Calcutta High Court (Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919

State: Central

Year: 1919

THE CALCUTTA HIGH COURT (JURISDICTIONAL LIMITS) ACT, 1919 [Act, No. 15 of 1919] [17th September, 1919] PREAMBLE An Act to declare and prescribe the limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. WHEREAS Clause II of the Letters Patent for the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, dated the 28th December, 1865, provides that the said High Court shall have and exercise ordinary original civil jurisdiction within such local limits as may from time to time be declared and prescribed by any law made by competent legislative authority for India; AND WHEREAS it is expedient so to declare and prescribe the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the said High Court; It is hereby enacted as follows:-

Calcutta High Court (Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1919

.....said High Court; It is hereby enacted as follows : Section 1 Short title This Act may be called the Calcutta High Court {Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919. Section 2 Limits of ordinary original civil jurisdiction The ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal shall be exercised within the limits set out in the schedule : Provided that nothing in this Act shall affect any suit or other legal proceeding pending in any Court at the date of the commencement of this Act. SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE (See section 2) 1. The limits within which the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court shall be exercised are as follows : North. A line commencing on the western side of the river Hooghly at a point where the straight line joining reference pillar No. I (in a compound on the riverside of the Ghusri Cotton Mill, Howrah) and reference pillar No. II (near the south-western end of Chitpur Toll Bridge) meets the western water-line of the river Hooghly, and thence along the said line to the point where it meets the eastern water-line of the river Hooghly near the south bank of the opening of Circular Canal; thence along the.....

Calcutta High Court (Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919 Section 2

Title: Limits of Ordinary Original Civil Jurisdiction.

State: Central

Year: 1919

The ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal shall be exercised within the limits set out in the Schedule; Provided that nothing in this Act shall affect any suit or other legal proceeding pending in any Court at the date of the commencement of this Act.

Calcutta High Court (Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919 Schedule 1

Title: The Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1919

.....the water-line of the Howrah side of the River Hooghly to the western extremity of the northern boundary. 2. (a) When the expression "water-line" is used in this Schedule all pucca ghats and other objects permanently attached to the bank and in contact with the water shall be deemed to appertain to the area to which the land on that bank appertains, and the water in contact with such objects shall be deemed to appertain to the other side of the boundary. In the places in the Schedule where the boundary is thus described the boundary line shall be the moving edge of the water wherever it may be at any time. In the case of bridges, however, the supporting pile in contact with the bank only shall be deemed to be permanently attached to the bank and the boundary line across the bridge to be immediately above the water-line so described. (b) The expression "solid side" or "solid corner" means the line or spot marked out by solid objects, such as a pucca wall or the face of a house, the wayside lands and pavements thus being all included in the adjacent road, street or lane.

Calcutta High Court (Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919 Section 1

Title: Short Title

State: Central

Year: 1919

This Act may be called the Calcutta High Court (Jurisdictional Limits) Act, 1919.

Calcutta Hackney Carriage Act, 1919 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1919

.....or done hereunder. (3) All proceeding now pending, which may have been commenced under the said Act, shall be deemed to be commenced under this Act. Section 4 Definitions In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context, (1) "bearer" when used with reference to rickshaws includes any person employed to draw or push a rickshaw 77. Words ins. by W.B. Act 36 of 1948. [or, where the rickshaw is a cycle-rickshaw, any person employed to actuate the cycle-rickshaw]; (2) "Calcutta" means 88. Words, figures and brackets ins. by W.B. Act 36 of 1948. [subject to the provisions of the proviso to subsection (3) of section 1 and] subject to the exclusion or inclusion of any local area by notification under clause (b) of section 2, the area described in Schedule I to the Calcutta Municipal Act, 1899; (3) "the Commissioner of Police" means the officer appointed under section 4 of the Calcutta Police Act, 1866; (4) "hackney-carriage" means any wheeled vehicle, drawn by horses and used for the conveyance of passengers, which is kept, offered or plies for hire by the hour or day or according to distance; (5) "horse" includes male and pony; (6) "notification.....