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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 17

Title: Of Offences Against Property

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....intends to deliver the indigo plant, and afterwards breaks his contract and does not deliver it, he does not cheat, but is liable only to a civil action for breach of contract. (h) A intentionally deceives Z into a belief that A has performed A's part of a contract made with Z, which he has not performed, and thereby dishonestly induces Z to pay money. A cheats. (i) A sells and conveys an estate to B. A, knowing that in consequence of such sale he has no right to the property, sells or mortgages the same to Z, without disclosing the fact of the previous sale and conveyance to B, and receives the purchase or mortgage money for Z. A cheats. Section 416 - Cheating by personation A person is said to "cheat by personation" if he cheats by pretending to be some other person, or by knowingly substituting one person for another, or representing that he or any other person is a person other than he or such other person really is. Explanation.--The offence is committed whether the individual personated is a real or imaginary person. Illustration (a) A cheats by pretending to be a certain rich banker of the same name. A cheats by personation. (b) A cheats by pretending to.....

The Indian Penal Code 1860 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....1908, `India', means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Under s. 2(e) of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969, `India' means for the purposes of this Act the territories to which this Act extends (i.e., whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir). According to s. 2(27) of Customs Act, 1962, `India' includes the territorial waters of India. SECTION 19: "JUDGE" The word "judge" denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a Judge, but also every person, who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, a definitive judgement or a judgement which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgement which, if confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive, or who is one of a body of persons, which body of persons is empowered by law to give such a judgement. Illustrations (a) A Collector exercising jurisdiction in a suit under Act 10 of 1859, is a Judge. (b) A Magistrate exercising jurisdiction in respect of a charge on which he has power to sentence to fine or imprisonment, with or without appeal, is a Judge. (c) A member of a Panchayat which has power.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 378

Title: Theft

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....Z's ground, with the intention of dishonestly taking the tree out of Z's possession without Z's consent. Here, as soon as A has severed the tree in order to such taking, he has committed theft. (b) A puts a bait for dogs in his pocket, and thus induces Z's dog to follow it. Here, if A's intention be dishonestly to take the dog out of Z's possession without Z's consent. A has committed theft as soon as Z's dog has begun to follow A. (c) A meets a bullock carrying a box of treasure. He drives the bullock in a certain direction, in order that he may dishonestly take the treasure. As soon as the bullock begins to move, A has committed theft of the treasure. (d) A, being Z's servant, and entrusted by Z with the care of Z's plate, dishonestly runs away with the plate, without Z's consent. A has committed theft. (e) Z, going on a journey, entrusts his plate to A, the keeper of the warehouse, till Z shall return. A carries the plate to a goldsmith and sells it. Here the plate was not in Z's possession. It could not therefore be taken out of Z's possession, and A has not committed theft, though he may have committed criminal breach of trust. (f) A finds a ring belonging to Z on.....

Sarais Act, 1867 Section 7

Title: Duties of Keepers Sars

State: Central

Year: 1867

.....sarai and allow him to inspect the same or any part thereof; (3) to thoroughly cleanse the rooms and verandahs and drains of the sarai and the wells tanks or other sources from which water is obtained for the persons or animals using it to the satisfaction of and so often as shall be required by the Magistrate of the District, or such person as he shall appoint in this behalf : (4) to remove all noxious vegetation on or near the sarai, and all tree and branches of tree capabIe of affording to thieves means of entering or leaving the sarai: (5) to keep the gates, walls, fences, roofs and drains of the sarai in repair : (6) to provide such number of watchmen as may, in the opinion of the Magistrate of the District, subject to such rules as the State Government may prescribe in this behalf, be necessary for the safety and protection of persons and animals or vehicles in, halting at or placed in the Sarai: and (7) to exhibit a list of charges for the sarai at such place and in such form and languages as the Magistrate of the District shall from time to time direct.

Sarais Act, 1867 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1867

.....apply to any Sarai which may be under the direct management of the7[State Government] or of any Municipal Committee. SECTION 17: EXTENT OF ACT This Act shall in the first instance extend only to the territories under the Government of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal. Power to State Government to extend this Act. But it shall be lawful for the 9[State Government], by notification in the10[official Gazette] to extend this Act, mutatis mutandis, to any other part of11[the territories under its Government], except; the towns of Calcutta, Madras and bombay12[* * *]. SECTION 18: SHORT TITLE This Act may be called The Sarais Act. 1867. SCHEDULE 1 FORM OF NOTICE Take notice that on the day of 1867, an Act called the Sarais Act, 1867, was passed, and that, before the day of 18 , you, being keeper of a Sarai [or purao] within there state the district over which the jurisdiction of the Magistrate giving the notice extends], must have your sarai [or purao] registered, and that the register is to be kept at [here state where the register is to be kept) and that, if you do not have your sarai [or purao] so.....

Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, I873 Part X

Title: Of Offences and Penalties

State: Central

Year: 1873

.....banks or channels of a canal or drainage-work contrary to rules made under this Act, a he has been desired to desist therefrom; (12) violates any rule made under this Act, for breach whereof a penalty may be incurred; shall be liable, on conviction before a Magistrate of such class as the State Government directs in this behalf, to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees, or to imprisonment not exceeding one month, or to both.(Penalty.) Whoever, without proper authority and voluntarily, does any of the acts following, that is to say: (1) damages, alters, enlarges or obstructs any canal or drainage-work ; (2) interferes with, increases or diminishes the supply of water in, or the flow of water from, through, over or under any canal or drainage-work ; (3) interferes with or alters the flow of water in any river or stream, so as to endanger, damage or render less useful any canal or drainage-work ; (4) being responsible for the maintenance of a water-course, or using a water-course, neglects to take proper precaution for the prevention of waste of the water thereof, or interferes with the authorised distribution of the water therefrom, or uses such water in an unauthorised.....

Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, I873 Section 74

Title: Definition of Canal

State: Central

Year: 1873

In this Part the word " canal" shall (unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context) be deemed to include also all lands occupied by the State Government for the purposes of canals, and all buildings, machinery, fences, gates and other erections trees, crops, plantations or other produce occupied by or belonging to the State Government upon such lands.

Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1873

.....cultivating tenant of water supplied by the owner of a water-course for the irrigation of the land held by such tenant; transfer, with land, of contracts for water: But all contracts made between the19 [State Government] and the owner or occupier of any immovable property, as to the supply of canal water to such property, shall be transferable therewith, and shall be presumed to have been so transferred whenever a transfer of such property takes place; no right acquired by user : (f) No right to the use of the water of a canal shall be, or be deemed to have been acquired under the Indian Limitation Act, 1877, Part IV, nor shall the19 [State Government] be bound to supply any person with water except in accordance with the terms of a contract in writing. SECTION 33: LIABILITY WHEN PERSON USING UNAUTHORISEDLY CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED If water supplied through a water-course be used in an unauthorised manner, and if the person by whose act or neglect such use has occurred cannot be identified, the person on whose land such water has flowed if such land has derived benefit therefrom, or if such person cannot be identified or if such land has not derived benefit therefrom, all the persons.....

Indian Easements Act, 1882 Chapter 6

Title: Licenses

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....licence is granted for a specified purpose and the purpose is attained or abandoned, or becomes impracticable; (g) where the licence is granted to the licensee as holding a particular office, employment or character, and such office,employment or character ceases to exist; (h) where the licence totally ceases to be used as such for an unbroken period of twenty years, and such cessation is not inpursuance of a contract between the grantor and the licensee; (i) in the case of an accessory licence, when Ihe interest or right to which it is accessory to exist. Section 63 - Licensee's rights on revocation Where a licence is revoked, the licensee is entitled to a reasonable time to leave the property affected thereby and to remove any goods which he has been allowed to place on such property. Section 64 - Licensee's rights on eviction Where a licence has been granted for a con­sideration, and the licensee, without any fault of his own, is evicted by the grantor before he has fully enjoyed, under the licence, the right for which he contracted, he is entitled to recover compensation from the grantor.

The Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....for relief, whether such debt or beneficial interest be existent, accruing, conditional or contingent;] 17 ["a person is said to have notice" of a fact when he actually knows that fact, or when, but for wilful abstention from an enquiry or search which he ought to have made, or gross negligence, he would have known it. Explanation 1. "Where any transaction relating to immovable property is required by law to be and has been effected by a registered instrument, any person acquiring such property or any part of, or share or interest in, such property shall be deemed to have notice of such instrument as from the date of registration or, where the property is not all situated in one sub-district, or where the registered instrument has been registered under sub-section (2) of section 30 of the Indian Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), from the earliest date on which any memorandum of such registered instrument has been filed by any Sub-Registrar within whose sub-district any part of the property which is being acquired, or of the property wherein a share or interest is being acquired, is situated:] Provided that " (1) the instrument has been registered and its registration.....