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The Christian Succession Act, 1921 (Cochin) Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1921

.....dies leaving movable property in Cochin, in the absence of proof of any domicile elsewhere, succession to the property is regulated by this Act. Section 6 - Kindred or consanguinity Kindred or consanguinity is the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor. Lineal consanguinity.- Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between two persons, one of whom is descended in a direct line from the other, as between a man and his father, grandfather and great-grand-father and so upwards in the direct ascending line, or between a man, his son, grandson, great-grandson and so downwards in the direct descending line. Every generation constitutes a degree, either ascending or descending. A man's father is related to him in the first degree, and so likewise is his son; his grandfather and grandson in the second degree; his great-grandfather and great-grandson in the third. Collateral consanguinity.- Collateral consanguinity is that which subsists between two persons who are descended from the same stock or ancestor, but neither of whom is descended in a direct line from the other. For the purpose of ascertaining in what degree of.....

Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 Schedule I

Title: Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1936

SCHEDULE I (See section 3) Table of prohibited degrees of consanguinity and affinity A man shall not marry his 1. Paternal grand-father's mother. 2. Paternal grand-mother's mother. 3. Maternal grand-father's mother. 4. Maternal grand-mother's mother. 5. Paternal grand-mother. 6. Paternal grand-father's wife. 7. Maternal grand-mother. 8. Maternal grand-father's wife. 9. Mother or step-mother. 10. Father's sister or step-sister. 11. Mother's sister or step-sister. 12. Sister or step-sister. 13. Brother's daughter or step-brother's daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of a brother or step-brother. 14. Sister's daughter or step-sister's daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of a sister or step-sister. 15. Daughter or step-daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of either. 16. Son's daughter or step-son's daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of a son or step-son. 17. Wife of son or step-son, or of any direct lineal descendant of a son or step-son. 18. Wife of daughter's son or of step-daughter's son, or of any direct lineal descendant of a daughter or step-daughter. 19. Mother of daughter's husband. 20. Mother of son's.....

Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1936

.....certificate was defective, irregular or incorrect. "Clause 17.- This new clause lays down general principles on which most discreet Judges would act and have acted." CHAPTER III- PARSI MATRIMONIAL COURTS SECTION 18: CONSTITUTION OF SPECIAL COURTS UNDER THE ACT For the purpose of hearing suits under this Act, a special Court shall be constituted in each of the Presidency-towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, and in such other places in the territories of the several[State Governments] as such Governments respectively shall think fit. SECTION 19: PARSI CHIEF MATRIMONIAL COURTS The Court so constituted in each of the Presidency towns shall be entitled the Parsi Chief Matrimonial Court of Calcutta, Madras or Bombay, as the case may be. The local limits of the jurisdiction of a Parsi Chief Matrimonial Court shall be conterminous with the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court. The Chief Justice of the High Court or such other Judge of the same Court, as the Chief Justice shall from time to time appoint, shall be the Judge of such Matrimonial Court, and, in the trial of cases under this Act, he shall be aided14[by five delegates, except in.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Schedule 2

Title: Schedule 2

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....and maternal grandparents' parents. (6) Paternal and maternal 2 [grandparents' parents' children] and the lineal descendants of such of them as have predeceased the intestate. (7) Half brothers and sisters and the lineal descendants of such of them as have predeceased the intestate. (8) Widows of brothers or half brothers and widowers of sisters or half sisters. (9) Paternal or maternal grandparents' children's widows or widowers. (10) Widows or widowers of deceased lineal descendants of the intestate who have not married again before death of the intestate ___________________ 1. Substituted by Act 51 of 1991, section 7. 2. Substituted by Act 30 of 2001, Second Schedule (w.e.f. 3-9-2001).

Succession Act, 1925 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....under this section or exempted from the operation of any of the provisions of the Indian Succession Act, 1865(10 of 1865), under section 332 of that Act are in this Act referred to as "exempted persons". PART 02 OF DOMICILE SECTION 04: APPLICATION OF PART This Part shall not apply if the deceased was a Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina. SECTION 05: LAW REGULATING SUCCESSION TO DECEASED PERSON'S IMMOVABLE AND MOVABLE PROPERTY, RESPECTIVELY (1) Succession to the immovable property in India of a person deceased shall be regulated by the law of India, wherever such person may have had his domicile at the time of his death. (2) Succession to the movable property of a person deceased is regulated by the law of the country in which such person had his domicile at the time of his death. SECTION 06: ONE DOMICILE ONLY AFFECTS SUCCESSION TO MOVABLES A person can have only one domicile for the purpose of the succession to his movable property. SECTION 07: DOMICILE OF ORIGIN OF PERSON OF LEGITIMATE BIRTH The domicile of origin of every person of legitimate birth is in the country in which at the time of his birth his father was domiciled; or, if he is a posthumous.....

The Cochin Makkathayam Thiyya Act, 1940 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1940

.....them. Section 3 - Saving Nothing in this Act shall confer any right on the parties to a marriage dissolved before this Act comes into force. Section 4 - Act to constitute law in cases of intestate succession Except as provided for by any other law for the time being in force, the rules herein contained shall constitute the law of Cochin applicable to all cases of intestate succession among Thiyyas. Section 5 - Definitions In this Act unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context. (i) "Thiyya" includes Ezhava. Chova, Billava, Marayam, Thandan and others recognized as such. (ii) "Son", "Daughter" or any word which expresses relationship denotes only a legitimate relative. When owing to any physical defect or deformity, it is not possible to ascertain the sex of any of the heirs of an intestate, such heir shall, for the purpose of this Act, be regarded as a female. (iii) Kindred or consanguinity.- Kindred or consanguinity is the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or ancestor. Lineal consanguinity.- Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between two persons, one of whom is descended in a direct line from the.....

All India Services Act, 1951 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1951

.....Service, and (3) the Indian Medical and Health Service. The present Bill seeks to create the aforesaid services by amending the All India Services Act, 1951. Under section 3of the Act, the Central Government would be empowered to make rules for the regulation of recruitment, and conditions of service of persons appointed, to these services. - S.O.R. -Gaz. of Ind., 19-11-1962, Pt. II, S. 2, Ext., p. 1012. Act 23 of 1975.- In service matters occasions arise when it becomes an inescapable necessity to amend or make rules with retrospective effect. An instance in point is the implementation of the decisions of the Government on the recommendations of the Third Central Pay Commission. 2.Section 3of the All India Services Act, 1951 which empowers the Central Government to make rules for the regulation of recruitment and the conditions of service of persons appointed to an All India Service does not in terms permit the making of the rules with retrospective effect. In view of the opinion tendered by the Attorney-General in 1969 in connection with a po,int raised by the Public Accounts Committee regarding an exemption notification issued with retrospective effect under the Central.....

HINDU WIDOW'S REMARRIAGE ACT, 1856 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1856

HINDU WIDOW'S RE-MARRIAGE ACT, 1856 HINDU WIDOW'S RE-MARRIAGE ACT, 1856 An Act to remove all legal obstacles to the Marriage of Hindu Widows Whereas it is known that, by the law as administered in the Civil Courts established in the territories in the possession and under the Government of the East India Company, Hindu widows with certain exceptions are held to be, by reason of their having been once married, incapable of contracting a second valid marriage and the offspring of such widows by any second marriage are held to be illegitimate and incapable of inheriting property; and whereas many Hindus believe that this imputed legal incapacity, although it is in accordance with established custom, is not in accordance with a true interpretation of the precepts of their religion, and desire that the civil law administered by the Courts of Justice shall no longer prevent those Hindus who maybe so minded from adopting a different custom, in accordance with the dictates of their own conscience; and whereas it is just to relieve all such Hindus from this legal incapacity of which they complain, and the removal of all legal obstacles to the marriage of Hindu widows will tend.....

Delhi Panchayat Raj Act, 1954 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1954

.....utility and declared as such under Section 1 of the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954, by the Chief Commissioner, or acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, or any other enactment relating to acquisition of land for a public purpose. Explanation - In this sub-section the expression "rural areas" has the meaning assigned to it in the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957]. 11. Came into force on 12-5-1956 vide Notification No. F. 17(10)/(56)-GAIR Dated 5-5-1956. [3] It shall come into force on such date as the Chief Commissioner may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint. Section2 Definitions In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, - (1) "Adult" means a person who has completed his twenty-first year; (2) "Bhumidhar" and "Asami" shall hear the same meaning respectively assigned to them in the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954; (3) "building" means any shop, house, hut, out-house, estate or stable whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise or whether of masonry, bricks, wood, mud, thatch, metal or any other material whatever and includes a wall and a well: (4) "bye-laws" means bye-laws made by the Gaon Panchayat under this.....

Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (23 of 1940) Section 27

Title: Penalty for Manufacture, Sale, Etc., of Drugs in Contravention of This Chapter

State: Central

Year: 1940

1[27. Penalty for manufacture, sale, etc., of drugs in contravention of this Chapter Whoever, himself or by any other person on his behalf, manufactures for sale or for distribution, or sells, or stocks or exhibits or offers for sale or distributes,-- (a) any drug deemed to be adulterated under section 17A or spurious under section 2[17B and which] when used by any person for or in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation, or prevention of any disease or disorder is likely to cause his death or is likely to cause such harm on his body as would amount to grievous hurt within the meaning of section 320 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), solely on account of such drug being adulterated or spurious or not of standard quality, as the case may be, shall be 3[punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than ten years but which may extend to imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to fine which shall not be less than ten lakh rupees or three times value of the drugs confiscated, whichever is more:] 4 [Provided that the fine imposed on and released from, the person convicted under this clause shall be paid, by way of compensation, to the person who had.....