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Title: Consent Known to Be Given Under Fear or Misconception
State: Central
Year: 1860
A consent is not such a consent as it intended by any section of this Code, if the consent is given by a person under fear of injury, or under a misconception of fact, and if the person doing the act knows, or has reason to believe, that the consent was given in consequence of such fear or misconception; or Consent of insane person.--if the consent is given by a person who, from unsoundness of mind, or intoxication, is unable to understand the nature and consequence of that to which he gives his consent; or Consent of child.--unless the contrary appears from the context, if the consent is given by a person who is under twelve years of age.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThe Indian Penal Code 1860 Complete Act
State: Central
Year: 1860
.....Court of Justice (including a liquidator, receiver or Commissioner) whose duty is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to make, authenticate, or keep any document, or to take charge or dispose of any property or to execute any judicial process, or to a administrator any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order in the Court, and every person specially authorized by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties; Fifth--Every juryman, assessor, or member of a Panchayat assisting a Court of Justice or public servant; Sixth--Every arbitrator or other person to whom any cause or matter has been referred for decision or report by any Court of Justice, or by any other competent public authority; Seventh--Every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement; Eighth--Every officer of the Government, whose duty it is, as such officer, to prevent offences, to give information of offences, to being offenders to justice, or to protect the public health, safety or convenience; Ninth--Every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any property on behalf of.....
List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 4
Title: General Exceptions
State: Central
Year: 1860
.....person doing the act in good faith believes that the Court had such jurisdiction. Section 79 - Act done by a person justified, or by mistake of fact believing himself justified, by law Nothing is an offence which is done by any person who is justified by law, or who by reason of a mistake of fact and not by reason of a mistake of law in good faith, believes himself to be justified by law, in doing it. Illustration A sees Z commit what appears to A to be a murder. A, in the exercise, to the best of his judgment exerted in good faith, of the power which the law gives to all persons of apprehending murderers in the fact, seizes Z, in order to bring Z before the proper authorities. A has committed no offence, though it may turn out that Z was acting in self-defence. Section 80 - Accident in doing a lawful act Nothing is an offence which is done by accident or misfortune, and without any criminal intention or knowledge in the doing of a lawful act in a lawful manner by lawful means and with proper care and caution. Illustration A is at work with a hatchet; the head flies off and kills a man who is standing by. Here, if there was no want of proper caution on the.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 98
Title: Right of Private Defence Against the Act of a Person of Unsound Mind, Etc.
State: Central
Year: 1860
When an act, which would otherwise be a certain offence, is not that offence, by reason of the youth, the want of maturity of understanding, the unsoundness of mind or the intoxication of the person doing that act, or by reason of any misconception on the part of that person, every person has the same right of private defence against that act which he would have if the act were that offence. Illustrations (a) Z, under the influence of madness, attempts to kill A; Z is guilty of no offence. But A has the same right of private defence which he would have if Z were same. (b) A enters by night a house which he is legally entitled to enter Z, in good faith, taking A for a house-breaker, attacks A. Here Z, by attacking A under this misconception, commits no offence. But A has the same right of private defence against Z, which he would have if Z were not acting under that misconception.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIncome Tax Act, 1961 Chapter I
Title: Preliminary
State: Central
Year: 1961
.....stored in a floppy, disc, tape or any other form of electro-magnetic data storage device ;] (13) "business" includes any trade, commerce or manufacture or any adventure or concern in the nature of trade, commerce or manufacture ; (14) "capital asset" means property of any kind held by an assessee, whether or not connected with his business or profession, but does not include (i) any stock-in-trade, consumable stores or raw materials held for the purposes of his business or profession ; 16[(ii) personal effects, that is to say, movable property (including wearing apparel and furniture) held for personal use by the assessee or any member of his family dependent on him, but excludes - (a) jewellery; (b) archaeological collections; (c) drawings; (d) paintings; (e) sculptures; or (f) any work of art. Explanation : For the purposes of this sub-clause, jewellery includes (a) ornaments made of gold, silver, platinum or any other precious metal or any alloy containing one or more of such precious metals, whether or not containing any precious or semiprecious stone, and whether or not worked or sewn into any wearing apparel; (b) precious or semi-precious.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIncome Tax Act, 1961 Section 2
Title: Definitions
State: Central
Year: 1961
.....stored in a floppy, disc, tape or any other form of electro-magnetic data storage device ;] (13) "business" includes any trade, commerce or manufacture or any adventure or concern in the nature of trade, commerce or manufacture ; (14) "capital asset" means property of any kind held by an assessee, whether or not connected with his business or profession, but does not include (i) any stock-in-trade, consumable stores or raw materials held for the purposes of his business or profession ; 16[(ii) personal effects, that is to say, movable property (including wearing apparel and furniture) held for personal use by the assessee or any member of his family dependent on him, but excludes - (a) jewellery; (b) archaeological collections; (c) drawings; (d) paintings; (e) sculptures; or (f) any work of art. Explanation : For the purposes of this sub-clause, jewellery includes (a) ornaments made of gold, silver, platinum or any other precious metal or any alloy containing one or more of such precious metals, whether or not containing any precious or semiprecious stone, and whether or not worked or sewn into any wearing apparel; (b) precious or semi-precious.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 5
Title: Of Abetment
State: Central
Year: 1860
.....act or illegal omission, the doing of that thing. Explanation 1.A person who by wilful misrepresentation, or by wilful concealment of a material fact which he is bound to disclose, voluntarily causes or procures, or attempts to cause or procure, a thing to be done, is said to instigate the doing of that thing. Illustration A, a public officer, is authorized by a warrant from a Court of Justice to apprehend Z. B, knowing that fact and also that C is not Z, wilfully represents to A that C is Z, and thereby intentionally causes A to apprehend C. Here B abets by instigation the apprehension of C. Explanation 2.--Whoever, either prior to or at the time of the commission of an act, does anything in order to facilitate the commission of that act, and thereby facilitate the commission thereof, is said to aid the doing of that act. Section 108 - Abettor A person abets an offence, who abets either the commission of an offence, or the commission of an act which would be an offence, if committed by a person capable by law of committing an offence with the same intention or knowledge as that of the abettor. Explanation 1.--The abetment of the illegal omission of an act may.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 108
Title: Abettor
State: Central
Year: 1860
.....or not, is guilty of abetting an offence. (b) A, with the intention of murdering Z, instigates B, a child under seven years of age, to do an act which causes Z's death. B, in consequence of the abetment, does the act in the absence of A and thereby causes Z's death. Here, though B was not capable by law of committing an offence. A is liable to be punished in the same manner as if B had been capable by law of committing an offence, and had committed murder, and he is therefore subject to the punishment of death. (c) A instigates B to set fire to a dwelling-house, B, in consequence of the unsoundness of his mind, being incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that he is doing what is wrong or contrary to law, sets fire to the house in consequence of A's instigation. B has committed no offence, but A is guilty of abetting the offence of setting fire to a dwelling-house, and is liable to the punishment, provided for that offence. (d) A, intending to cause a theft to be committed, instigates B to take property belonging to Z out of Z's possession. A induces B to believe that the property belongs to A. B takes the property out of Z's possession, in good faith,.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Complete Act
Title: Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860)
State: Central
Year: 1860
.....for certain offences under Chapter XII or Chapter XVII after previous conviction Chapter 4 Section76 - Act done by a person bound, or by mistake of fact believing himself bound, by law Section77 - Act of Judge when acting judicially Section78 - Act done pursuant to the judgment or order of Court Section79 - Act done by a person justified, or by mistake of fact believing himself justified, by law Section80 - Accident in doing a lawful act Section81 - Act likely to cause harm, but done without criminal intent, and to prevent other harm Section82 - Act of a child under seven years of age Section83 - Act of a child above seven and under twelve of immature understanding Section84 - Act of a person of unsound mind Section85 - Act of a person incapable of judgment by reason of intoxication caused against his will Section86 - Offence requiring a particular intent or knowledge committed by one who is intoxicated Section87 - Act not intended and not known to be likely to cause death or grievous hurt, done by consent Section88 - Act not intended to cause death, done by consent in good faith for person's benefit Section89 - Act done in good faith for benefit of child or insane.....
List Judgments citing this sectionCode of Criminal Procedure, 1898 Complete Act
State: Central
Year: 1898
.....as such Magistrate, exercised the powers of an Assistant Sessions Judge, he may be invested with the powers under this section notwithstanding the fact that he has not exercised the powers of Magistrate of the first class for not less than ten years." Act 19 of 1969, Section 3 and Schedule, Item 14 (in Delhi on 2-10-1969). WEST BENGAL In its application to the State of West Bengal, for Section 30, substitute the following, namely: "30. Offences punishment with imprisonment not exceeding seven years.-Notwithstanding any thing contained in Section 28 or Section 29, the State Government may, in consultation with the High Court, invest any Judicial Magistrate of the first class with power to try as a Magistrate all offences not punishable with death or with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment for a term exceeding seven years : Provided that no Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such powers unless he has, for not less than ten years, exercised powers not inferior to those of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class : Provided further that if any Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such Magistrate,.....
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