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Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920 Section 63

Title: Right of Creditor Who Has Not Proved Debt Before Declaration of a Dividend

State: Central

Year: 1920

Any creditor who has not proved his debt before the declaration of any dividend or dividends shall be entitled to be paid, out of debt any money for the time being in the hands of the receiver, any of dividend or dividends which he may have failed to receive before at money is applied to the payment of any future dividend or dividends; but he shall not be entitled to disturb the distribution of any dividend declared before his debt was proved by reason that he as not participated therein.

Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Section 72

Title: Right of Creditor Who Has Not Proved Debt Before Declaration of a Dividend

State: Central

Year: 1909

Any creditor who has not proved his debt before the declaration of any dividend or dividends shall be entitled to be paid out of any money for the time being {For Madras, read: "under the control"see s.5, ibid} [in the hands] of the official assignee any dividend or dividends which he may have failed to receive, before that money is applied to the payment of any future dividend or dividends, but he shall not be entitled to disturb the distribution of any dividend declared before his debt was proved by reason that he has not participated therein.

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 222

Title: When Offence Proved Included in Offence Charged

State: Central

Year: 1973

.....separately charged. (4) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorise a conviction of any minor offence where the conditions requisite for the initiation of proceedings in respect of that minor offence have not been satisfied. Illustrations (a) A is charged under section 407 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) with criminal breach of trust in respect of property entrusted to him as a carrier. It appears, that he did commit criminal breach of trust under section 406 of that Code in respect of the property, but that it was not entrusted to him as a carrier. He may be convicted of criminal breach of trust under the said section 406. (b) A is charged under section 325 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), with causing grievous hurt. He proves that he acted on grave and sudden provocation. He may be convicted under section 335 of that Code.

Navy Act, 1957 Section 127

Title: Finding Lesser Offence Proved on Charge of Greater Offence

State: Central

Year: 1957

(1) When a person is charged with an offence consisting of several particulars, a combination of some only of which constitutes a complete minor offence and such combination is proved, but the remaining particulars are not proved, he may be convicted of the minor offence although he was not charged with it. (2) When a person is charged with an offence and facts are proved which reduce it to a minor offence, he may be convicted of the minor offence although he was not charged with it. (3) When a person is charged with an offence, he may be convicted of an attempt to commit such an offence, although the attempt is not separately charged.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 229

Title: Grant of Administration Where Executor Has Not Renounced

State: Central

Year: 1925

When a person appointed an executor has not renounced the executorship, letters of administration shall not be granted to any other person until a citation has been issued, calling upon the executor to accept or renounce his executorship: Provided that, when one or more of several executors have proved a Will, the Court may, on the death of the survivor of those who have proved, grant letters of administration without citing those who have not proved.

Companies Act, 1956 Section 474

Title: Power to Exclude Creditors Not Proving in Time

State: Central

Year: 1956

The1[Tribunal] may fix a time or times within which creditors are to prove their debts or claims, or to be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before those debts or claims are proved. _____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 11 of 2003, Section 77, for "Court".

Indian Evidence Act, 1872 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....appears from the context- "Court"- includes all Judges and Magistrates, and all persons, except arbitrators, legally authorized to take evidence. "Fact" " "Fact" means and includes- (1) any thing, state of things, or relation of things, capable of being perceived by the sense; (2) any mental condition of which any person is conscious. Illustrations (a) That there are certain objects arranged in a certain order in a certain place, is a fact. (b) That a man heard or saw something is a fact. (c) That a man said certain words is a fact. (d) That a man holds a certain opinion, has a certain intention, acts in goods faith or fraudulently, or uses a particular word in a particular sense, or is or was at a specified time conscious of a particulars sensation, is a fact. (e) That a man has a certain reputation is a fact. "Relevant" " One fact is said to be relevant to another when the one is connected with the other in any of the ways referred to in the provisions of this Act relating to the relevancy of facts. "Facts in issue" " The expression "facts in issue" means and includes " any fact from which, either by itself or in connection with other facts, the existence, non-existence,.....

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Part 1

Title: Relevancy of Facts

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....the context:- "Court".-Court" includes all Judges1 and Magistrates, 2 and all persons, except arbitrators, legally authorized to take evidence. "Fact".-"Fact" means and includes- (1) any thing, state of things, or relation of things, capable of being perceived by the senses; (2) any mental condition of which any person is conscious. Illustrations (a) That there are certain objects arranged in a certain order in a certain place, is a fact. (b) That a man heard or saw something, is a fact. (c) That a man said certain words, is a fact. (d) That a man holds a certain opinion, has a certain intention, acts in good faith or fraudulently, or uses a particular word in a particular sense, or is or was at a specified time conscious of a particular sensation, is a fact. (e) That a man has a certain reputation, is a fact. "Relevant".-One fact is said to be relevant to another when the one is connected with the other in any of the ways referred to in the provisions of this Act relating to the relevancy of facts. "Facts in issue".-The expression "facts in issue" means and includes--any fact from which, either by itself or in connection with other facts, the existence,.....

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Part 2

Title: On Proof

State: Central

Year: 1872

Chapter 3 - FACTS WHICH NEED NOT BE PROVED Section 56 - Fact judicially noticeable need not be proved No fact of which the Court will take judicial notice need to be proved. Section 57 - Facts of which Court must take judicial notice The Court shall take judicial notice of the following facts:- 1 [(1) All laws in force in the territory of India;] (2) All public Acts passed or hereafter to be passed by Parliament 1 [of the United Kingdom] and all local and personal Acts directed by Parliament 2 [of the United Kingdom] to be judicially noticed; (3) Articles of War for 3 [the Indian] Army 4 [Navy or Air Force]; 5 [(4) The course of proceeding of Parliament of the United Kingdom, of the Constituent Assembly of India, of Parliament and of the legislatures established under any law for the time being in force in a Province or in the States;] (5) The accession and the sign manual of the Sovereign for the time being of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; (6) All seals of which English Courts take judicial notice : the seals of all the 6 [Courts in 7 [India] and all Courts out of 5 [India] established by the authority of 8 [the Central Government or the.....

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Part 3

Title: Production and Effect of Evidence

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....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 of proof in a suit or proceeding lies on that person who would fail if no evidence at all were given on either side. Illustrations (a) A sues B for land of which B is in possession, and which, as A asserts, was left to A by the will of C, B's father. If no evidence were given on either side, B would be entitled to retain his possession. Therefore the burden of proof is on A. (b) A sues B for money due on a bond. .....