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Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Complete Act

Title: Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881

State: Central

Year: 1881

Preamble1 - NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1881 Chapter I Section1 - Short title Section2 - Repeal of enactments Section3 - Interpretation clause Chapter II Section4 - "Promissory note" Section5 - "Bill of exchange" Section6 - "Cheque" Section7 - "Drawer", "drawee" Section8 - "Holder" Section9 - "Holder in due course" Section10 - "Payment in due course" Section11 - "Inland instrument" Section12 - "Foreign instrument." Section13 - "Negotiable instrument" Section14 - Negotiation Section15 - Indorsement Section16 - Indorsement "in blank" and "in full"--"Indorsee" Section17 - Ambiguous instruments Section18 - Where amount is stated differently in figures and words Section19 - Instruments payable on demand Section20 - Inchoate stamped instruments Section21 - "At sight", "On presentment", "After sight" Section22 - "Maturity" Section23 - Calculating maturity of bill or note payable so many months after date or sight Section24 - Calculating maturity of bill or note payable so many days after date or sight Section25 - When day of maturity is a holiday Chapter III Section26 - Capacity to make, etc., promissory notes, etc. Section27 - Agency Section28 - Liability of.....

Negotiable Instruments (Amendment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2002 Complete Act

Title: Negotiable Instruments (Amendment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2002

State: Central

Year: 2002

Preamble1 - NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS (AMENDMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT, 2002 Chapter I Section1 - Short title and commencement Chapter II Section2 - Substitution of new section for section 6 Section3 - Amendment of section 64 Section4 - Amendment of section 81 Section5 - Amendment of section 89 Section6 - Amendment of section 131 Section7 - Amendment of section 138 Section8 - Amendment of section 141 Section9 - Amendment of section 142 Section10 - Insertion of new sections after section 142 Chapter III Section11 - Amendment of section 2 Chapter IV Section12 - Amendment of section 1 Section13 - Insertion of a new section 81A

Delivery of Books and Newspapers (Public Libraries) Act, 1954 Complete Act

Title: Delivery of Books and Newspapers (Public Libraries) Act, 1954

State: Central

Year: 1954

Preamble1 - DELIVERY OF BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS (PUBLIC LIBRARIES) ACT, 1954 Section1 - Short title and extent Section2 - Definitions Section3 - Delivery of books of public libraries Section3A - Delivery of newspapers to public libraries Section4 - Receipt for books delivered Section5 - Penalty Section6 - Cognizance of offences Section7 - Application of Act to books and newspapers published by Government Section8 - Power to make rules Amending Act1 - DELIVERY OF BOOKS (PUBLIC LIBRARIES) AMENDMENT ACT, 1956

Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005 Complete Act

Title: Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005

State: Central

Year: 2005

..... Section10 - Prohibition as regards intimidating acts Section11 - Prohibition of export Section12 - Prohibition on brokering Section13 - Regulation of export, transfer, retransfer, transit and trans-shipment Section14 - Offences and penalties Section15 - Punishment for aiding non-State actor or terrorist Section16 - Punishment for unauthorised export Section17 - Punishment for violation of other provisions of Act Section18 - Penalty for using false or making forged documents, etc Section19 - Punishment for offences with respect to which no provision has been made Section20 - Offences by companies Section21 - Cognizance of Offences Section22 - Bar of jurisdiction of civil courts Section23 - Effect of other laws Section24 - Protection of action taken in good faith Section25 - Special provisions as to Central Government Section26 - Power to make rules Section27 - Power to remove difficulties

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1881

.....When the holder of an accepted bill of exchange enters into any contract with the acceptor which, under section 134 or 135 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872), would discharge the other parties, the holder may expressly reserve his right to charge the other parties, and in such case they are not discharged. SECTION 40: DISCHARGE OF INDORSER'S LIABILITY Where the holder of a negotiable instrument, without the consent of the indorser, destroys or impairs the indorser's remedy against a prior party, the indorser is discharged from liability to the holder to the same extent as if the instrument had been paid at maturity. Illustration A is the holder of a bill of exchange made payable to the order of B, which contains the following indorsements in blank- First indorsement, "B". Second indorsement, "Peter Williams". Third indorsement "Wright & Co." Fourth indorsement "John Rozario". This bill A puts in suit against John Rozario and strikes out, without John Rozario's consent, the indorsements by Peter Williams and Wright & Co. A is not entitled to recover anything from John Rozario. SECTION 41: ACCEPTOR BOUND, ALTHOUGH INDORSEMENT FORGED An acceptor of a bill of.....

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Chapter IV

Title: Of Negotiation

State: Central

Year: 1881

.....party. Illustration The acceptor of a bill of exchange, when he accepted it, deposited with the drawer certain goods as a collateral security for the payment of the bill, with power to the drawer to sell the goods and apply the proceeds in discharge of the bill if it were not paid at maturity. The bill not having been paid at maturity, the drawer sold the goods and retained the proceeds, but indorsed the bill to A. A's title is subject to the same objection as the drawer's title. Section 60 - Instrument negotiable till payment or satisfaction A negotiable instrument may be negotiated (except by the maker, drawee or acceptor after maturity) until payment or satisfaction thereof by the maker, drawee or acceptor at or after maturity, but not after such payment or satisfaction.

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 47

Title: Negotiation by Delivery

State: Central

Year: 1881

Subject to the provisions of section 58, a promissory note, bill of exchange or cheque payable to bearer is negotiable by delivery thereof. Exception.--A promissory note, bill of exchange or cheque delivered on condition that it is not to take effect except in a certain event is not negotiable (except in the hands of a holder for value without notice of the condition) unless such event happens. Illustrations (a) A, the holder of a negotiable instrument payable to bearer, delivers it to B's agent to keep for B. The instrument has been negotiated. (b) A, the holder of a negotiable instrument payable to bearer, which is in the hands of A's banker, who is at the time the banker of B, directs the banker to transfer the instrument to B's credit in the banker's account with B. The banker does so, and accordingly now possesses the instrument as B's agent. The instrument has been negotiated, and B has become the holder of it.

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 58

Title: Legal Representative Cannot by Delivery Only Negotiate Instrument Indorsed by Deceased

State: Central

Year: 1881

The legal representative of a deceased person cannot negotiate by delivery only a promissory note, bill of exchange or cheque payable to order and indorsed by the deceased but not delivered.

Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....operates as notice that the agent has but a limited authority to sign, and the principal is only bound by such signature the agent in so signing was acting within the actual limit of his authority. SECTION 26: PERSON SIGNING AS AGENT OR IN REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY (1) Where a person signs a bill as drawer, endorser or acceptor, and adds words to his signature, indicating that he signs for or on behalf of a principal, or in a representative character, he is not personally liable thereon ; but the mere addition to his signature of words describing him as an agent, or as filling a representative character, does not exempt him from personal liability. (2) In determining whether a signature on a bill is that of the principal or that of the agent by whose hand it is written, the construction most favourable to the validity of the instrument shall be adopted. SECTION 27: VALUE DEFINED (1) Valuable consideration for a bill may be constituted by- (a) any consideration sufficient to support a simple contract ; (b) an antecedent debt or liability. Such a debt or liability is deemed valuable consideration whether the bill is payable on demand or at a future time. (2) Where value.....

The Bombay Warehouses Act, 1959 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1959

THE BOMBAY WAREHOUSES ACT, 1959 THE BOMBAY WAREHOUSES ACT, 1959 BOMBAY ACT NO V OF 1960 January, 1960 Amended by Corrig., C. & R. D. D., No. WHA 1060, 1060/20666/- (Co-op.) G dated 14.7.1961. (M. G. G., IV-B, p. 582) Amended by Mah. 71 of 1975 (24 An Act to provide for the regulation of the warehousing of certain goods in the State of Bombay. WHEREAS it is expedient to regulate the warehousing of certain goods in the State of Bombay ; It is hereby enacted in the Tenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :- CHAPTER I-PRELIMINARY SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Bombay Warehouses Act, 1959. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Bombay. (3) It shall come into force on such 2 as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. NOTIFICATION G. N., I. & C. D., No. WHA. 1559131854-MSC, dated 20th April, 1960 (B. G. Pt. IV-B, p. 555) In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of section 1 of the Bombay Warehouses Act, 1959 (Bom. V of 1960), the Government of Bombay hereby appoints the 25th day of April, 1960 to be the date on which the said Act shall come into force in the.....