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Carriers Act, 1865 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1865

.....was once supposed to be the exact position of a carrier who had contracted for himself as favourably as the law of England would permit. It was, in fact. long supposed in England that. while a carrier could by contract relieve himself from most of his liabilities, his power of doing so slopped short of liability for negligence or misconduct. Such is the view of the law taken by Mr.Justice Storey in his "Commentaries on the Law of Bailnients" section 549. and such is under stood to be still the law in America. But a series of decisions in the English Courts overturned the older doctrine, and it was settled that a carrier could, by a properly framed contract, deliver himself from liability even for misconduct or negligence. The liberty thus conceded was. however, found to be a practical evil and the English Legislature intervened by 17 and 18 Vic.. Cap 31. The nearly contemporaneous enactment of the Indian Legislature, embodied in Sec. XI of Act XVIII of 1854. is obviously aimed at the same object. It seems very undesirable to adopt the rule contained in section VII of 17 and 18 Vic. Cap. 31. which permits companies to contract themselves, on certain conditions, out of their.....

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The Mizoram Cooperative Societies Act, 2006 Complete Act

State: Mizoram

Year: 2006

.....deemed registered under sub-section (4) or (5) of section 10, failed to fulfill the conditions required for registration of cooperative which fact was noticed only after it received the deemed status. (2) The power under sub-section (1) shall be exercised by the Registrar only after providing a reasonable oppol1unity of being heard to the existing chair person or chief promoter applicants and the answers or replies furnished by the existing chair person or chief promoters are not found satisfactory. 16. Bye-laws: (1) Every may make its own bye-laws or adopt in to or adopt with necessary changes the bye-laws prepared and published by State Government or the Registrar or that of same or similar kind of s, consistent with the provisions of this Act and rules made there under. (2) The bye-laws of co-operative shall have legal force only when it is registered by the Registrar under this Act. (3) The bye-laws of co-operative may provide for all or1most of the following subject maters namely: (a) the name address and area of operation of the co-operative; (b) the objective and purpose behind the formation of the co-operative explicitly stated as a common central.....

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