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Imperial Library (Indentures Validation) Act, 1902 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1902

.....hereafter applied; It is hereby enacted as follows :- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE This Act may be called The Imperial Library (Indentures Validation) Act, 1902. SECTION 02: VALIDATION OF INDENTURES SET FORTH IN SCHEDULES (1) Notwithstanding anything contained inthe Societies Registration Act, 1860-, or in any other enactment or rule of law for the time being in force, the property expressed or intended to be transferred to the Secretary of State for India in Council by the indentures, whereof copies are set forth in the first and second schedules, respectively, to this Act, shall be deemed and taken to have been so transferred absolutely as and from the dates of the said indentures respectively; and the said several indentures are hereby declared valid and operative as from the said dates respectively. (2) The said indentures shall be, and from the dates thereof respectively shall be deemed to have been, valid and binding for all purposes whatsoever, and as agent all persons whomsoever claiming any right to, or any interest in or any relief respecting the property or any portion thereof, expressed or intended to be transferred thereby respectively either as members of the.....

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Imperial Library (Indentures Validation) Act, 1902 [Repealed] Schedule 1

Title: First Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1902

.....Metcalfe Hall AND WHEREAS so far as is known no conveyance or other assurance of the said piece or parcel of land was at any time executed to or in favour of the said Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India and the said Calcutta Public Library AND WHEREAS on the ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one the said Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India was registered under the provisions of Act 21 of 1860 of the Legislative Council of India and the said Society so registered is the said Society party hereto of the first part AND WHEREAS the said Society and the said Calcutta Public Library as at present constituted are possessed of and entitled in perpetuity to the said piece or parcel of land and the aforesaid building known as the Metcalfe Hall and other the out-buildings erected and being thereon as tenants in common in equal shares AND WHEREAS the said persons parties hereto of the second part are the present Council and governing body of the said Society AND WHEREAS the Secretary of State being desirous of acquiring the said Metcalfe Hall and other the land and buildings aforesaid an offer was recently made by the: President of the said.....

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Imperial Library (Indentures Validation) Act, 1902 [Repealed] Schedule 2

Title: Second Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1902

.....Calcutta Zemindar the Vice-President of the said Society and as such the continuing trustee of the property of the said Society under the said Act and the Rules of the said Society of the second part, the said Maharajah Bahadur Sir Narendra Krishna K.C.I.E.as such Vice-President as aforesaid Charles Elvin Dissent of 61 Wellesley Street Calcutta Government Pensioner Jogen Chunder Dutt of 171 Manicktollah Street Calcutta Attorney-at-Law and Kali Churn Palit of No 2 Jagadish Nath Roy's Lane Calcutta Vakil who collectively constitute the present Council of the said Society of the third part and the Secretary of State for India in Council (hereinafter called the Secretary of State) of the fourth part WHEREAS in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty at meetings of a Committee of subscribers to a fund raised with the object of perpetuating the name and administration of Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe Baronet (afterwards created Baron Metcalfe) Governor General of India to which fund the Calcutta Public Library as then constituted and a Society known as the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India were contributors it was resolved to erect a building in Calcutta of.....

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Indian Trusts Act, 1882 Chapter IX

Title: Of Certain Obligations in the Nature of Trusts

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....performance could be enforced, the former must hold the property for the benefit of the latter to the extent necessary to give effect to the contract. Section 92 - Purchase by person contracting to buy property to be held on trust Where a person contracts to buy property to be held on trust for certain beneficiaries and buys the property accordingly, he must hold the property for their benefit to the extent necessary to give effect to the contract. Section 93 - Advantage secretly gained by one of several compounding creditors Where creditors compound the debts due to them, and one of such creditors, by a secret arrangement with the debtor, gains an undue advantage over his co-creditors, he must hold for the benefit of such creditors the advantage so gained. Section 94 - Constructive trust in cases not expressly provided for (Rep. by the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988, sec. 7 (w.e.f. 19.5.1988)). Illustrations (a) A, an executor, distributes the assets of his testator B to the legatees without having paid the whole of B's debts. The legatees hold for the benefit of B's creditors, to the extent necessary to satisfy their just demands, the assets so.....

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Indian Trusts Act, 1882 Section 83

Title: Trust Incapable of Execution or Executed Without Exhausting Trust-property

State: Central

Year: 1882

Where a trust is incapable of being executed, or where the trust is completely executed without exhausting the trust-property, the trustee, in the absence of a direction to the contrary, must hold the trust-property, or so much thereof as is unexhausted, for the benefit of the author of the trust or his legal representative. Illustrations (a) A conveys certain land to B -- "upon trust", and no trust is declared; or "upon trust to be thereafter declared", and no such declaration is ever made; or upon trusts that are too vague to be executed; or upon trust become incapable of taking effect; or "in trust for C", and C renounces his interest under the trust In each of these cases B holds the land for the benefits of A. (b) A transfers Rs.10,000 in the four per cents to B, in trust to pay the interest annually accruing due to C for her life. A dies. Then C dies. B holds the fund for the benefit of A's legal representative. (c) A conveys land to B upon trust to sell it and apply one moiety of the proceeds for certain charitable purposes, and the other for the maintenance of the worship of an idol. B sells the land, but the charitable purposes wholly fail, and the ma

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Trusts Act, 1882 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1882

....."registered' means registered under the law for the registration of documents for the time being in force a person is said to have "notice" of a fact either when he actually knows that fact or when, but for willful abstention from inquiry or gross negligence, he would have known it, or when information of the fact is given to or obtained by his agent, under the circumstances mentioned in the section 229 Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872)-, ; and all expressions used herein and defined in the Indian Contract Act, 1872 (expressions defined in Act 9 of 1872), shall be deemed to have the meanings respectively attributed to them by that Act. SECTION 04: LAWFUL PURPOSE. A trust may be created for any lawful purpose. The purpose of a trust is lawful unless it is (a) forbidden by law, or (b) is of such a nature that, if permitted, it would defeat the provisions of any law, or (c) is fraudulent, or (d) involves or implies injury to the person or property of another, or (e) the Court regards it as immoral or opposed to public policy. Every trust of which the purpose is unlawful is void. And where a trust is created for two purposes, of which one is lawful and the other.....

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Indira Gandhi National Open University Act, 1985 Schedule II

Title: Second Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1985

.....of Management under the provision of Statute 13(1). Provided also that a Lecturer appointed on probation would be confirmed only after he has satisfactorily completed a proper short-term orientation programme as may be determined by the University and that his performance appraisal reports are satisfactory. (7) Confirmation-(a) It shall be the duty of the Registrar to place before the Board of Management the case of confirmation of a teacher on probation not later than forty days before the end of period of probation. (b) The Board of Management may then either confirm the teacher or decide not to confirm or extend the period of probation so as not to exceed twenty four months in all. In case the Board of Management decides not to confirm the teacher whether before the end of twelve months period of his probation or before the end of the extended period of probation, as the case may be, he shall be informed in writing to the effect not later than thirty days before the expiration of that period. (c) A teacher appointed by the Board of Management under Statute 13(1) shall be deemed to be confirmed with effect from the date he joins duty. (8) Increment-Every teacher shall.....

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Indira Gandhi National Open University Act, 1985 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1985

.....and related matters; (xv) to create administrative, ministerial and other necessary posts and to make appointments thereto; (xvi) to receive benefactions, donations and gifts and to acquire, hold, maintain and dispose of any property movable or immovable, including trust and Government property, for the purposes of the University; (xvii) to borrow, with the approval of the Central Government, whether on the security of the property of the University or otherwise, money for the purposes of the University; (viii) to enter into, carry out, vary or cancel contracts; (xix) to demand and receive such fees and other charges as may be laid down by the Ordinances;. (xx) to provide, control and maintain discipline among the students and all categories of employees and to lay down the conditions of service of such employees, including their codes of conduct; (xxi) to recognise any institution of higher learning or studies for such purposes as the University may determine and to withdraw such recognition; (xxii) to appoint, either on contract or otherwise, visiting Professors, Emeritus Professors, Consultants, fellows, scholars, artists, course writers and such other persons who may......

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The Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act (Tamil Nadu Act V of 1920) Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1920

.....into more than one dwelling-house of a building originally constructed as one dwelling-house only or the conversion of a dwelling-house into factory. (d) the re-conversion into a dwelling-house or a place of public worship or a factory of any building which has been discontinued as, or appropriated for any purpose other than, a dwelling-house of a place of public worship or factory as the case may be. NOTES S.3 (24) "Reconstruction" " meaning of " (1954) 2 MLJ 556; (25) "Residence" " ˜Reside' " A person is deemed to have his ˜residence' or to ˜reside' in any house if he sometimes uses any portion thereof as a sleeping apartment, and a person is not deemed to cease to reside in any such house merely because he is absent from it, or has elsewhere another dwelling in which he resides, if he is at liberty to Substituted by Tamil Nadu Act X of 1930 [ return to such house] at any time and has not abandoned his intention of returning. NOTES S.3 (25) " ˜Residence' " meaning of " 50 MLJ 77 (26) ˜Rubbish' " ˜Rubbish' means dust, ashes, broken bricks, mortar, broken glass, and refuse of any kind which is not ˜filth' (27).....

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Partition Act, 1893 Section 2

Title: Power to Court to Order Sale Instead of Division in Partition Suits

State: Central

Year: 1893

Whenever in any suit for partition in which, if instituted prior to the commencement of this Act, a decree for partition might have been made, it appears to the court that, by reason of the nature of the properly to which the suit relates, or of the number of the shareholders therein, or of any other special circumstance, a division of the property cannot reasonably or conveniently be made, and that a sale of the property and distribution of the proceeds would be more beneficial for all the shareholders, the court may, if it thinks fit, on the request of any of such shareholders interested individually or collectively to the extent of one moiety or upwards, direct a sale of the property and a distribution of the proceeds.

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