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Prevention of Destruction and Loss of Property Act, 1981 Complete Act

Title: Prevention of Destruction and Loss of Property Act, 1981

State: Karnataka

Year: 1981

Preamble 1 - PREVENTION OF DESTRUCTION AND LOSS OF PROPERTY ACT, 1981 Section 1 - Short title and commencement Section 2 - Punishment for committing mischief in respect of property Section 3 - Special provision regarding bail Section 4 - Power of State Government to impose collective fine Section 5 - Power to make rules Section 6 - Repeal and savings

Contract Act, 1872 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1872

CONTRACT ACT, 1872 CONTRACT ACT, 1872 9 of 1872 CHAPTER 00: PRELIMINARY SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE This Act may be called the Indian Contract Act, 1872. Extent and commencement.-It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir; and it shall come into force on the first day of September, 1872. Enactments repealed.-Nothing herein contained shall affect the provisions of any Statute, Act or Regulation not hereby expressly repealed, nor any usage or custom of trade, nor any incident of any contract, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. SECTION 02: INTERPRETATION CLAUSE. In this Act the following words and expressions are used in the following senses, unless a contrary intention appears from the context :- (a) When one person signifies to another his willingness to do or to abstain from doing anything, with a view to obtaining the assent of that other to such act or abstinence, he is said to make a proposal: (b) When the person to whom the proposal is made signifies his assent thereto, the proposal is said to be accepted. A proposal, when accepted, becomes a promise: (c) The person making the proposal is called the "promisor",.....

Indian Contract Act, 1872 Chapter 6

Title: Of the Consequences of Breach of Contract

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....in advance. A repairs the house, but not according to contract. B is entitled to recover from A the cost of making the repairs conform to the contract. (g) A contracts to let his ship to B for a year, from the first of January, for a certain price. Freights rise, and, on the first of January, the hire obtainable for the ship is higher than the contract price. A breaks his promise. He must pay to B, by way of compensation, a sum equal to the difference between the contract price and the price for which B could hire a similar ship for a year on and from the first of January. (h) A contracts to supply B with a certain quantity of iron at a fixed price, being a higher price than that for which A could procure and deliver the iron. B wrongfully refuses to receive the iron. B must pay to A, by way of compensation, the difference between the contract price of the iron and the sum for which A could have obtained and delivered it. (i) A delivers to B, a common carrier, a machine, to be conveyed, without delay, to A's mill, informing B that his mill is stopped for want of the machine. B unreasonably delays the delivery of the machine, and A, in consequence, loses a profitable.....

Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 73

Title: Compensation for Loss or Damage Caused by Breach of Contract

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....in advance. A repairs the house, but not according to contract. B is entitled to recover from A the cost of making the repairs conform to the contract. (g) A contracts to let his ship to B for a year, from the first of January, for a certain price. Freights rise, and, on the first of January, the hire obtainable for the ship is higher than the contract price. A breaks his promise. He must pay to B, by way of compensation, a sum equal to the difference between the contract price and the price for which B could hire a similar ship for a year on and from the first of January. (h) A contracts to supply B with a certain quantity of iron at a fixed price, being a higher price than that for which A could procure and deliver the iron. B wrongfully refuses to receive the iron. B must pay to A, by way of compensation, the difference between the contract price of the iron and the sum for which A could have obtained and delivered it. (i) A delivers to B, a common carrier, a machine, to be conveyed, without delay, to A's mill, informing B that his mill is stopped for want of the machine. B unreasonably delays the delivery of the machine, and A, in consequence, loses a profitable.....

The Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets (Haryana Amendment) Act, 2005 Complete Act

State: Haryana

Year: 2005

.....rules. 19 16. Repeal and Saving. 20 17. Validation. 20 1THE PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE MARKETS (HARYANA AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005 (Haryana Act No. 22 of 2006) No. Leg. 24/2006. - The following Act of the Legislature of the State of Haryana received the assent of the President of India on the 25th May, 2006, and is hereby published for general information:- Year No. Short title Whether repealed or otherwise affected by Legislation 1 2 3 4 2006 22 The Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets (Haryana Amendment) Act, 1961 1 For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana Government Gazette (Extraordinary), 2005, page AN ACT to substitute the long title of the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 and further to amend the said Act in its application to the State of Haryana BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Fifty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows: - Short title. 1. This Act may be called the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets (Haryana Amendment) Act, 2005. Substitution of long title to Punjab Act 23 of 1961. 2. For the.....

Bombay Agricultural Pests and Diseases Act, 1947, (Maharashtra) Preamble

Title: the Bombay Agricultural Pests and Diseases Act, 1947

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1947

.....In the circumstance Government, considered it essential to take powers to coerce the recalcitrant minority which usually sets itself up in opposition against the wishes of the majority. As the necessity for the prevention of damage to crops in insect pests and plant diseases still exists, it appeared desirable to re-enact this Act.--Statement of Objects and Reasons. _________________ 1. This Act was extended to the rest of the State of Maharashtra (vide Mah. 4 of 1962, s. 2). 2. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Bombay Government Gazette, 1947, Part V, page 245; for Proceedings in Assembly, see Bombay Legislative Assembly Debates, 1947, Vol. XI; and for Proceedings in Council, see Bombay Legislative Council Debates, 1947, Vol. XIII. 3. This indicates the date of commencement of Act. 4. These words were substituted for the words "Province of Bombay" by Mah. 4 of 1962, ss. 3 and 4. 5. The portion beginning with "in view of the provisions" and ending with "1935" was deleted, ibid., s. 4 (a).

Railways Act, 1989 Chapter 11

Title: Responsibilities of Railway Administrations as Carriers

State: Central

Year: 1989

.....after termination of transit (1) A railway administration shall be responsible as a bailee under sections 151, 152 and 161 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872), for the loss, destruction, damage, deterioration or non-delivery of any consignment up to a period of seven days after the termination of transit: Provided that where the consignment is at owner's risk rate, the railway administration shall not be responsible as a bailee of such loss, destruction, damage, deterioration or non-delivery except on proof of negligence or misconduct on the part of the railway administration or of any of its servants. (2) The railway administration shall not be responsible in any case for the loss, destruction, damage, deterioration or non-delivery of any consignment arising after the expiry of a period of seven days after the termination of transit. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this section, a railway administration shall not be responsible for the loss, destruction, damage, deterioration or non-delivery of perishable goods, animals, explosives and such dangerous or other goods as may be prescribed, after the termination of transit......

Railways Act, 1989 Section 102

Title: Exoneration from Liability in Certain Cases

State: Central

Year: 1989

Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this Chapter, a railway administration shall not be responsible for the loss, destruction, damage, deterioration or non delivery of any consignment,-- (a) when such loss, destruction, damage, deterioration or non-delivery is due to the fact that a materially false description of the consignment is given in the statement delivered under sub-section (1) of section 66; or (b) where a fraud has been practised by the consignor or the consignee or the endorsee or by an agent of the consignor, consignee or the endorsee; or (c) where it is proved by the railway administration to have been caused by, or to have arisen from-- (i) improper loading or unloading by the consignor or the consignee or the endorsee or by an agent of the consignor, consignee or the endorsee; (ii) riot, civil commotion, strike, lock-out, stoppage or restraint of labour from whatever cause arising whether partial or general; or (d) for any indirect or consequential loss or damage or for loss of particular market.

Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1980

..... (7) "building of the warehouse class" means a building, the whole or a substantial part of which is used, or intended to be used, as a warehouse, factory, manufactory, brewery, or distillery, or for any similar purpose, which is neither a "domestic building" nor a "public building" as defined in this section, and includes a hut used or intended to be used for any of the purposes mentioned in this clause; (8) "bustee" means an area containing land not less than seven hundred square metres in area occupied by or for the purposes of any collection of huts or other structures used or intended to be used for human habitation. Explanation.-If any question arises as to whether any particular area is or is not a bustee, the Corporation shall decide the question and its decision shall be final; (9) "Kolkata" means the area described in Schedule I; 3 Clause (10) omitted by s. 2 of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 1996 (West Ben. Act VI of 1996) (with retrospective effect from 4.12.1995), which was earlier as under: '(10) "candidate" in section 75 and in Schedule III means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election of a Councillor or who claims.....

The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1981

.....includes any kind of bicycle, tricycle, cycle-rickshaw and palanquin, but does not include any motor vehicle within the meaning of Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (Central Act IV of 1939); Notes Sec.2(6) " Carriage " Trailer Car " whether a carriage " Case decided with reference to Madras Act 18 MLJ 149 (7) "cart" includes any wheeled vehicle which is not a carriage but does not include any motor vehicle within the meaning of Motor vehicles Act, 1939 (Central Act IV of 1939); (8) "casual vacancy" means a vacancy occurring otherwise than by efflux of time and "casual election" means an election held on the occurrence of a causal vacancy; (9) "City of Coimbatore" or "City" means the local area comprised in the Coimbatore Municipality and includes any local area which after the commencement of this Act, is included in the City but does not include any local area which after such commencement is excluded from the City; (10) "Coimbatore Municipality" means the Coimbatore Municipality as constituted under the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (Tamil Nadu Act V of 1920); (11) "company" means " (a) any company as defined in the Companies Act, 1956 (Central Act I.....