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Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 155

Title: Impeaching Credit of Witness

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....that he delivered the goods to B. Evidence is offered to show that, on a previous occasion, he said that he had not delivered goods to B. The evidence is admissible. (b) A is indicted for the murder of B. C says the B, when dying, declared that A had given B the wound of which he died. Evidence is offered to show that, on a previous occasion, C said that the wound was not given by A or in his presence. The evidence is admissible. _______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 18 of 1872, section 11, for "had". 2. Clause (4) omitted by Act 4 of 2003, section 3 (w.e.f. 31-12-2002). Prior to omission, it read as: "(4) when a man is prosecuted for rape or an attempt to ravish, it may be shown that the prosecutrix was of generally immoral character."

Constitution of India Article 61

Title: Procedure for Impeachment of the President

State: Central

Year: 1950

(1) When a President is to be impeached for violation of the Constitution, the charge shall be preferred by either House of Parliament. (2) No such charge shall be preferred unless-- (a) the proposal to prefer such charge is contained in a resolution which has been moved after at least fourteen days' notice in writing signed by not less than one-fourth of the total number of members of the House has been given of their intention to move the resolution, and (b) such resolution has been passed by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of the House. (3) When a charge has been so preferred by either House of Parliament, the other House shall investigate the charge or cause the charge to be investigated and the President shall have the right to appear and to be represented at such investigation. (4) If as a result of the investigation a resolution is passed by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of the House by which the charge was investigated or caused to be investigated, declaring that the charge preferred against the President has been sustained, such resolution shall have the effect of removing the President from his of

Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 Section 488

Title: Assessment, Etc., Not to Be Impeached

State: Karnataka

Year: 1976

.....or collection of money made under the said authority: Provided that the provisions of this Act have in substance and effect, been complied with. (3) No distraint or sale under this Act shall be deemed unlawful, nor shall any person making the same be deemed a trespasser, on account of any error, defect or want of form in the bill, notice, schedule, form, summons, notice of demand, warrant of distraint, inventory or, other proceeding relating thereto, if the provisions of this Act, the rules and the bye-laws have, in substance and effect been complied with: Provided that every person aggrieved by any irregularity may recover satisfaction for any special damage sustained by him.

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Part 3

Title: Production and Effect of Evidence

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....PROOF Section 101 - Burden of proof Whoever desires any Court to give judgment as to any legal right or liability dependent on the existence of facts which he asserts, must prove that those facts exist. When a person is bound to prove the existence of any fact, it is said that the burden of proof lies on that person. Illustrations (a) A desires a Court to give judgment that B shall be punished for a crime which A says B has committed. A must prove that B has committed the crime. (b) A desires a Court to give judgment that he is entitled to certain land in the possession of B, by reason of facts which he asserts, and which B denies, to be true. A must prove the existence of those facts. Section 102 - On whom burden of proof lies The burden of proof in a suit or proceeding lies on that person who would fail if no evidence at all were given on either side. Illustrations (a) A sues B for land of which B is in possession, and which, as A asserts, was left to A by the will of C, B's father. If no evidence were given on either side, B would be entitled to retain his possession. Therefore the burden of proof is on A. (b) A sues B for money due on a bond. .....

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Chapter 10

Title: Of the Examination of Witnesses

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....the discretion of the Court. Section 136 - Judge to decide as to admissibility of evidence When either party proposes to give evidence of any fact, the Judge may ask the party proposing to give the evidence in what manner the alleged fact, if proved, would be relevant; and the Judge shall admit the evidence if he thinks that the fact, if proved, would be relevant, and not otherwise. If the fact proposed to be proved is one of which evidence is admissible only upon proof of some other fact, such last-mentioned fact must be proved before evidence is given of the fact first mentioned, unless the party undertakes to give proof of such fact, and the Court is satisfied with such undertaking. If the relevancy of one alleged fact depends upon another alleged fact being first proved, the Judge may, in his discretion, either permit evidence of the first fact to be given before the second fact is proved, or require evidence to be given of the second fact before evidence is given of the first fact. Illustrations (a) It is proposed to prove a statement about a relevant fact by a person alleged to be dead, which statement is relevant under section 32. The fact that the person.....

Indian Evidence Act, 1872 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....appears from the context- "Court"- includes all Judges and Magistrates, and all persons, except arbitrators, legally authorized to take evidence. "Fact" " "Fact" means and includes- (1) any thing, state of things, or relation of things, capable of being perceived by the sense; (2) any mental condition of which any person is conscious. Illustrations (a) That there are certain objects arranged in a certain order in a certain place, is a fact. (b) That a man heard or saw something is a fact. (c) That a man said certain words is a fact. (d) That a man holds a certain opinion, has a certain intention, acts in goods faith or fraudulently, or uses a particular word in a particular sense, or is or was at a specified time conscious of a particulars sensation, is a fact. (e) That a man has a certain reputation is a fact. "Relevant" " One fact is said to be relevant to another when the one is connected with the other in any of the ways referred to in the provisions of this Act relating to the relevancy of facts. "Facts in issue" " The expression "facts in issue" means and includes " any fact from which, either by itself or in connection with other facts, the existence, non-existence,.....

Constitution of India Part 5

Title: The Union

State: Central

Year: 1950

.....one or more other States on the other; or (c) between two or more States, if and in so far as the dispute involves any question (whether of law or fact) on which the existence or extent of a legal right depends: 1 [Provided that the said jurisdiction shall not extend to a dispute arising out of any treaty, agreement, covenant, engagement, named or other similar instrument which, having been entered into or executed before the commencement of this Constitution, continues in operation after such commencement, or which provides that the said jurisdiction shall not extend to such a dispute.] ________________________ 1. Substituted by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, section 5, for the proviso. Article 131A - Exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in regard to questions as to constitutional validity of Central Laws [Repealed] 1 [131A. Exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in regard to question as to constitutional validity of Central Laws [Rep. by the Constitution (Forty-third Amendment Act, 1977, section 4 (w.e.f. 13.4.1978]] __________________________ 1. Inserted by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act 1976, section 23 (w.e.f......

Constitution of India Chapter 1

Title: The Executive

State: Central

Year: 1950

.....Territory of Delhi and the Union Territory of Pondicherry.] ________________________ 1. Inserted by the Constitution (Seventieth Amendment) Act, section 2 (w.e.f. 1-6-1995). Article 55 - Manner of election of President (1) As far as practicable, there shall be uniformity in the scale of representation of the different States at the election of the President. (2) For the purpose of securing such uniformity among the States inter se as well as parity between the States as a whole and the Union, the number of votes which each elected member of Parliament and of the Legislative Assembly of each State is entitled to cast at such election shall be determined in the following manner:-- (a) every elected member of the Legislative Assembly of a State shall have as many votes as there are multiples of one thousand in the quotient obtained by dividing the population of the State by the total number of the elected members of the Assembly; (b) if, after taking the said multiples of one thousand, the remainder is not less than five hundred, then the vote of each member referred to in sub-clause (a) shall be further increased by one; (c) each elected member of either House.....

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.....

The Orissa Cooperative Land Mortgage Bank Act, 1938 Complete Act

State: Orissa

Year: 1938

.....be served under this Act. Officers of banks and sale officers not to bid at sales. 37. At any sale of movable or immovable property held under this Act in order to recover any money due to the Provincial Mortgage Bank, no Director, Secretary or other officer of such bank or its branch bank (except on behalf of the bank of which he is a Director or Secretary or an officer) and no sale officer or other person having any duty to perform in connection with such sale, shall either directly or indirectly, bid for or acquire or attempt to acquire any interest in such property. Delegation of Powers by managing committee. 38. The managing committee may, if it thinks fit, delegate all or any of its powers under this Act to an executive committee constituted by it consisting of two or more of its members of whom one shall be the Registrar or his nominee, not below the rank of Assistant Registrar. Managing Committee's power of making regulations. Bihar and Orissa Act VI of 1935. Madras Act VI of 1932. 39. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Bihar and Orissa Cooperative Societies Act, 1935, or the Madras Co-operative Societies Act, 1932, of the rules made thereunder, the managing.....