State : Central
Year : 1872
INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872 INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872 CHAPTER I: PRELIMINARY SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT This Act may be called the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. 2It extends to the whole of India 3 [Except the State of Jammu and Kashmir] and applies to all judicial proceedings in or before any Court, including Courts-martial, 4[other than Courts-martial convened under the Army Act.,] (44 & 45 Vict., c.58) 5[the Naval Discipline Act (29 & 30 Vict., c 109) or 6[***] the Indian Navy (Discipline) Act. 19347] (34 of 1934) 8[or the Air Force Act] 7 Geo. 5, c. 51) but not to affidavits presented to any Court to any Court or Officer, not to proceedings before an arbitrator And it shall come into force on the first day of September, 1872. [ SECTION 02: REPEAL..... List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Production and Effect of Evidence
State : Central
Year : 1872
Chapter 7 - OF THE BURDEN OF PROOF Section 101 - Burden of proof Whoever desires any Court to give judgment as to any legal right or liability dependent on the existence of facts which he asserts, must prove that those facts exist. When a person is bound to prove the existence of any fact, it is said that the burden of proof lies on that person. Illustrations (a) A desires a Court to give judgment that B shall be punished for a crime which A says B has committed. A must prove that B has committed the crime. (b) A desires a Court to give judgment that he is entitled to certain land in the possession of B, by reason of facts which he asserts, and which B denies, to be true. A must prove the existence of those facts. Section 102 - On whom burden of proof lies The burden..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 1913
WHITE PHOSPHORUS MATCHES PROHIBITION ACT, 1913 WHITE PHOSPHORUS MATCHES PROHIBITION ACT, 1913 5 of 1913 [7th March, 1913.] STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS "The object of this Bill is to prohibit the importation into, and the manufacture and sale in, British India of matches which contain white (yellow) phosphorus. The provisions of the Bill follow, so far as is necessary and practicable, the tines of the English White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act, 1908(8 Edw. 7, Ch. 42.) The Bill was introduced into the Council of the Governor-General for making Laws and Regulations on the 22nd September, 1911. At the Council meeting of the 1st March 1912, however, objections were raised to its passage on the ground that the necessity for the proposed legislation had not been..... List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 1880
VACCINATION ACT, 1880 VACCINATION ACT, 1880 STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS "Owing to the vast number of death caused every year by small-pox in India, it has been found necessary to enact special measures for checking the growth and spread of the disease and preventing the ravages caused by it. This Bill has been drafted with the object of providing the required law. Its provisions are intended to extend to the municipalities and military cantonments of all those provinces which do not possess local legislatures. But it has been left to the power of the Local Governments to extend the provisions of the proposed law to any municipality and, with the previous sanction of the Governor-General of India in Council, to any military cantonment of British forces situate in British..... List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 1900
PRISONERS ACT, 1900 PRISONERS ACT, 1900 3 OF 1900 "The object of this Bill is merely to consolidate the several Acts relating to prisoners confined by order of a Court 'which are now to be found in different parts of the Statute-book, and so to replace a number of separate enactments by a single Act, expressed more simply and intelligibly...."-Gazette of India, 1899, Pt. V, page 101. "We have adopted the suggestion of the Government of Bombay that sections 1 and 20 of the Prisoners Act 1871 (V of 1871 ), should he entirely repealed-and that all cases in which persons sentenced in Native Stutes are to be imprisoned in British India should he dealt with under section 16 of the Act. as reproduced in clause 15 of the Bill. We agree with the Local Government that, owing to the..... List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Slope of Acts
State : Central
Year : 1861
(1) This Act shall not by its own operation take effect any { In the States of Madras and Bombay there are special Police Acts, see the Madras District Police Act, 1859 (24 of 1859) and the Bombay District Police Act, 1867 (Bom.7 of 1867).In the Lower Provinces of Bengal, Bengal Act 7 1869 is to be read and taken as part of Act 5 of 1861, see section6 of the former Act This Act has been extended under the power conferred by the original section to- (1) the U.P. including Ajmer-Merwara then under that Government Notification No.964 in the North-Western Provinces Gazette i86 p.634: [The orders as to enforcement of the Act in 27 districts in the U.P., Hamirpur, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Nainital (including the Tarai Pargana and Almora and Garhwal, issued under the original..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 1879
HACKNEY CARRIAGE ACT, 1879 HACKNEY CARRIAGE ACT, 1879 STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS "The want of a law to regulate Hackney Carriages in towns and cantonments in the interior of India has long been felt and has lately been pressed upon the notice of the Government of India by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab and His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief. The present Bill has been prepared to supply this want in the case of municipalities in those parts of India which have no local Legislatures, and in all cantonments, whether in British India or in Native States. It gives power to the Municipal Committee, in the case of a municipality, and to the Local Government, in the case of a cantonment, to make rules (subject, in the former case, to the sanction of the Local..... List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 1904
ANCIENT MONUMENTS PRESERVATION ACT, 1904 ANCIENT MONUMENTS PRESERVATION ACT, 1904 7 of 1904 "The object of this measure is to preserve to India its ancient monuments in antiquities and to prevent the excavation by unauthorised persons of sites of historic interest and value. 2. In 1898 the question of antiquarian exploration and research attracted attention and the neces- sity of taking steps for the protection of monuments and relics of antiquity was impressed upon the Government of India. It was then apparent that legislation was required to enable the Government to discharge their responsibilities in the matter and a Bill was drafted on the lines of the existing Acts of Parliament modified so as to embody certain provisions which have found a place in recent..... List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 1910
PRESS ACT, 1910 PRESS ACT, 1910 1 of 1910 9th February, 1910 An Act to provide for the better control of the Press. Whereas it is necessary to provide for the better control of the Press; It is hereby enacted as follows:- STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS PUBLISHED WITH THE BILL 1. The continue recurrence of murderous outrages has shown that the measures which have hitherto been taken to deal with anarchy and sedition require strengthening and that the real search of the evil has not as yet been touched. Since 1907, the policy of the Government has been directed to the steady enforcement of the ordinary law against sedition. Prosecutions have invariably proved successful but have produced no permanent improvement in the tone of the Press, a certain section of which has..... List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Interpretation-clause
State : Central
Year : 1872
In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context, "Church of England" and "Anglican" mean and apply to the Church of England as by law established ; "Church of Scotland" means the Church of Scotland as by law established ; "Church of Rome" and "Roman Catholic" mean and apply to the Church which regards the Pope of Rome as its spiritual head ; "Church" includes any chapel or other building generally used for public Christian worship ; {Ins. by Act 3 of 1951, s.3 and Sch.} ["India" means the {Subs by the Adaptation of Laws (NO.2) Order, 1956, for "territory comprised in the States".} [territories] to which this Act extends.] "minor'' means a person who has not completed the age of twenty-one years and who is not a widower or a widow ; {The..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section