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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 Enactments repealed.-Nothing herein contained shall affect the provisions of any Statute, Act or Regulation not hereby expressly repealed, nor any usage or custom of trade, nor any incident of any contract, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.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",.....

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 213

Title: When Manner of Committing Offence Must Be Stated

State: Central

Year: 1973

When the nature of the case is such that the particulars mentioned in sections 211 and 212 do not give the accused sufficient notice of the matter with which he is charged, the charge shall also contain such particulars of the manner is which the alleged offence was committed as will be sufficient for that purpose. Illustrations (a) A is accused of the theft of a certain article at a certain time and place. The charge need not set out the manner in which the theft was effected. (b) A is accused of cheating B at a given time and place. The charge must be set out the manner in which A cheated B. (c) A is accused of giving false evidence at a given time and place. The charge must set out that portion of the evidence given by A which is alleged to be false. (d) A is accused of obstructing B, a public servant, in the discharge of his public functions at a given time and place. The charge must set out the manner in which A obstructed B in the discharge of his functions. (e) A is accused of the murder of B at a given time and place. The charge need not state the manner in which A murdered B. (f) A is accused of disobeying a direction of the law with intent to save B from.....

Indian Contract Act, 1872 Chapter 10

Title: Agency

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....ratifying unauthorized act forming part of a transaction A person ratifying any unauthorized act done on his behalf ratifies the whole of the transaction of which such act formed a part. Section 200 - Ratification of unauthorized act cannot injure third person An act done by one person on behalf of another, without such other person's authority, which, if done with authority, would have the effect of subjecting a third person to damages, or of terminating any right or interest of a third person, cannot, by ratification, be made to have such effect. Illustration (a) A, not being authorized thereto by B, demands, on behalf of B, the delivery of a chattel, the property of B, from C, who is in possession of it. This demand cannot be ratified by B, so as to make C liable for damages for his refusal to deliver. (b) A holds a lease from B, terminable on three months' notice. C, an unauthorized person, gives notice of termination to A. The notice cannot be ratified by B, so as to be binding on A. Section 201 - Termination of agency An agency is terminated by the principal revoking his authority; or by the agent renouncing the business of the agency; or by the business of.....

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 60

Title: Oral Evidence Must Be Direct

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....direct; that is to say-- If it refers to a fact which could be seen, it must be the evidence of a witness who says he saw it; If it refers to a fact which could be heard, it must be the evidence of a witness who says he heard it; If it refers to a fact which could be perceived by any other sense or in any other manner, it must be the evidence of a witness who says he perceived it by that senseor in that manner; If it refers to an opinion or to the grounds on which that opinion is held, it must be the evidence of the person who holds that opinion on those grounds: Provided that the opinions of experts expressed in any treatise commonly offered for sate, and the grounds on which such opinions are held, may be proved by the production of such treatises if the author is dead or cannot be found, or has become incapable of giving evidence, or cannot be called as a witness without an amount of delay or expense which the Court regards as unreasonable: Provided also that, if oral evidence refers to the existence or condition of any material thing other than a document, the Court may, if it thinks fit, require the production of such material thing for its inspection.

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 109

Title: How Acceptance for Honour Must Be Made

State: Central

Year: 1881

A person desiring to accept for honour must,1[by writing on the bill under hi s hand], declare that he accepts under protest the protested bill for the honour of the dr awer or of a particular indorser whom he names, or generally for honour2[* * *]. _____________________ 1 . Substituted b y Act 2 of 1885 , sec. 8 , for "in the presence of a notary public, sub scribe the bill with hi s own hand, and". 2 . The words "and such declaration must be recorded by the notary in hi s register" omitted by Act 2 of 1885 , sec. 8 .

The Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1887

THE PUNJAB LAND REVENUE ACT, 1887 THE PUNJAB LAND REVENUE ACT, 1887 (ACT NO. 17 OF 1887) CONTENTS SN Subject CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1. Title, extent and commencement. 2. Repeal 3. Definitions 4. Exclusion of certain land from operation of Act. 5. Power to vary limits and alter number of tahsils, districts, and divisions. CHAPTER II REVENUE-OFFICERS Classes and Powers 6. Classes of revenue-officers. 7. Financial Commissioners. 8. Appointment of Commissioners and of Deputy, Assistant and Extra Assistant Commissioners. 9. Appointment of Tahsildars and Naib-Tahsildars. 10. Powers of Revenue-officers. 11. Superintendence and control of Revenue-officers. 12. Power to distribute business and withdraw and transfer cases. 13. Appeals 14. Limitation for appeals. 15. Review by Revenue-officers. 16. Power to call for, examine and revise proceedings of Revenue-officers. 17. Power to make rules as to procedure. 18. Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made.....

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 95

Title: Party Receiving Must Transmit Notice of Dishonour

State: Central

Year: 1881

Any party receiving notice of dishonour must, in order to render any prior party liable to himself, give notice of dishonour to such party within a reasonable time, unless such party otherwise receives due notice as provided by section 93.

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 142

Title: When They Must Not Be Asked

State: Central

Year: 1872

Leading questions must not, if objected to by the adverse party, be asked in an examination-in-chief, or in a re-examination, except with the permission of the Court. The Court shall permit leading questions as to matters which are introductory or undisputed, or which have, in its opinion, been already sufficiently proved.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 363

Title: When Unsatisfied Legatee Must First Proceed Against Executor, if Solvent

State: Central

Year: 1925

If the assets were not sufficient to satisfy all the legacies at the time of the testator's death, a legatee who has not received payment of his legacy must, before he can call on a satisfied legatee to refund, first proceed against the executor or administrator if he is solvent; but if the executor or administrator is insolvent or not liable to pay, the unsatisfied legatee can oblige each satisfied legatee to refund in proportion.

The Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1967 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1967

.....in the value of land due to irrigation. (15) "legal practitioner" means any legal practitioner within the meaning of the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879 (Act XVIII of 1879), except a Mukhtar; (16) "net assets" of an estate or group of estates means the estimated average annual surplus produce of such estate or group of estates remaining after deduction of the ordinary expenses of cultivation as ascertained or estimated. Explanation" Ordinary expenses of cultivation include payments, if any, which the land-owner customarily bears, whether in kind or in cash, and in whole or in part whether in respect of" (a) water rates, (b) maintenance of means of irrigation, (c) maintenance of embankments, (d) supply of seed, (e) supply of manure, (f) improved implements of husbandry, (g) concessions with regard to fodder, (h) special abatements made for fallow or bad harvest, (i) cost of collection of rent, (j) allowance for shortage in collection of rent, (k) interest charges payable in respect of advances made in cash, free of interest, to tenants for the purpose of cultivation, (l) wages or customary dues paid to village auxiliaries whose products or labour are utilized for the.....