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Home Bare Acts Phrase: intent Page 1 of about 2,705 results (0.012 seconds)Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 15
Title: Facts Bearing on Question Whether Act Was Accidental or Intentional
State: Central
Year: 1872
When there is a question whether an act was accidental or intentional,1[or done with a particular knowledge or intention, ] the fact that such act formed part of a series of similar occurrences, in each of which the person doing the act was concerned, is relevant. Illustrations (a) A is accused of burning down his house in order to obtain money for which it is insured. The facts that A lived in several houses successively, each of which he insured, in each of which a fire occurred, and after each of which fires A received payment from a different insurance office, are relevant, as tending to show that the fires were not accidental. (b) A is employed to receive money from the debtors of B. It is A's duty to make entries in a book showing the amounts received by him. He makes an entry showing that on a particular occasion he received less than he really did receive. The question is, whether this false entry was accidental or intentional. The facts that other entries made by A in the same book are false, and that the false entry is in each case in favour of A, are relevant. (c) A is accused of fraudulently delivering to B a counterfeit rupee. The question is,.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 81
Title: Act Likely to Cause Harm, but Done Without Criminal Intent, and to Prevent Other Harm
State: Central
Year: 1860
.....his course, he must incur risk of running down a boat C with only two passengers on board, which he may possibly clear. Here, if A alters his course without any intention to run down the boat C and in good faith for the purpose of avoiding the danger to the passengers in the boat B, he is not guilty of an offence, though he may run down the boat C by doing an act which he knew was likely to cause that effect, if it be found as a matter of fact that the danger which he intended to avoid was such as to excuse him in incurring the risk of running down the boat C. (b) A, in a great fire, pulls down houses in order to prevent the conflagration from spreading. He does this with the intention in good faith of saving human life or property. Here, if it be found that the harm to be prevented was of such a nature and so imminent as to excuse A's act. A is not guilty of the offence.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 218
Title: Public Servant Framing Incorrect Record or Writing with Intent to Save Person from Punishment or Property from Forfeiture
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whoever, being a public servant, and being as such public servant, charged with the preparation of any record or other writing, frames that record or writing in a manner which he knows to be incorrect, with intent to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, loss or injury to the public or to any person, or with intent thereby to save, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby save, any person from legal punishment, or with intent to save, or knowing that he is likely thereby to save, any properly from forfeiture or other charge to which it is liable by law, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 221
Title: Intentional Omission to Apprehend on the Part of Public Servant Bound to Apprehend
State: Central
Year: 1860
.....may extend to three years, with or without fine, if the person in confinement, or who ought to have been apprehended, was charged with, or liable to be apprehended for, an offence punishable with1[imprisonment for life] or imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years; or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, with or without fine, if the person in confinement, or who ought to have been apprehended, was charged with, or liable to be apprehended for, an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term less than ten years. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for "transportation for life" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 222
Title: Intentional Omission to Apprehend on the Part of Public Servant Bound to Apprehend Person Under Sentence or Lawfully Committed
State: Central
Year: 1860
.....either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both, if the person in confinement, or who ought to have been apprehended is subject, by a sentence of a Court of Justice, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding to ten years 7 [or if the person was lawfully committed to custody]. ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 27 of 1870, section 8. 2. Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for "transportation for life" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956). 3. The words "or penal servitude for life" omitted by Act 17 of 1949, section 2 (w.e.f. 6-4-1949). 4. The words "or to" omitted by Act 36 of 1957, section 3 and Schedule II (w.e.f. 17-9-1957). 5. The word "transportation" omitted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule (w.e.f. 1-1-1956). 6. The words "or penal servitude" omitted by Act 17 of 1949, section 2 (w.e.f. 6-4-1949). 7. Inserted by Act 27 of 1870, section 8.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 439
Title: Punishment for Intentionally Running Vessel Aground or Ashore with Intent to Commit Theft, Etc
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whoever intentionally runs any vessel aground or ashore, intending to commit theft of any property contained therein or to dishonestly misappropriate any such property, or with intent that such theft or misappropriation of property may be committed, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNavy Act, 1957 Section 125
Title: Finding That the Offence Was Committed with Intent Involving Less Degree of Punishment
State: Central
Year: 1957
Where the amount of punishment for any offence depends upon the intent with which it has been committed and any person is charged with having committed such an offence with an intent involving a greater degree of punishment, a court-martial may find that the offence was committed with an intent involving less degree of punishment and award such punishment accordingly.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 35
Title: When Such an Act is Criminal by Reason of Its Being Done with a Criminal Knowledge or Intention
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whenever an act, which is criminal only by reason of its being done with a criminal knowledge or intention, is done by several persons, each of such persons who joins in the act with such knowledge or intention is liable for the act in the same manner as if the act were done by him alone with that knowledge or intention.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 498
Title: Enticing or Taking Away or Detaining with Criminal Intent a Married Woman
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of any other man, from that man, or from any person having the care of her on behalf of that man, with intent that she may have illicit intercourse with any person, or conceals or detains with that intent any such woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionKarnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961 Section 29
Title: Declaration of Intention to Make a Scheme
State: Karnataka
Year: 1961
(1) A Planning Authority having jurisdiction over any such land as is referred to in section 28 or over any such area as is referred to in section 26, may by resolution declare its intention to make a town planning scheme in respect of the whole or any part of such land or such area. (2) Within twenty-one days from the date of such declaration (hereinafter referred to as the declaration of intention to make a scheme), the Planning Authority shall publish it in the prescribed manner and shall despatch a copy thereof to the State Government through the Director. (3) The Planning Authority shall send a plan showing the area which it proposes to include in the town planning scheme to the State Government through the Director. (4) A copy of the plan shall be open to inspection by the public at the office of the Planning Authority.
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