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Usury Laws Repeal Act, 1855 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1855

.....to be calculated at the rate allowed in the judgment or decree upon the principal sum adjudged, or at such other rate as the Court shall think fit. SECTION 04: CONTRACTS FOR USUFRUCT OF PROPERTY IN LIEU OF INTEREST A mortgage or other contract for the loan of money, by which it is agreed that the use or usufruct of any property shall be allowed in lieu of interest, shall be binding upon the parties. SECTION 05: AMOUNT OF INTEREST TO BE DEPOSITED IN CERTAIN CASES OF CONDITIONAL SALES UNDER BENGAL REGULATIONS Whenever, under the Regulations of the Bengal Code, a deposit may be made of the principal sum and interest due upon any mortgage or conditional sale of land hereafter to be entered into, the amount of interest to be deposited shall be at the rate stipulated in the contract, or, if no rate has been stipulated and interest be payable under the terms of the contract, at the rate of twelve per centum per annum. Proviso Provided that, in the latter case, the amount deposited shall be subject to the decision of the Court as to the rate at which interest shall be calculated. SECTION 06: RATE OF INTEREST ON FUTURE ADJUSTMENTS OF ACCOUNTS In any case in which an adjustment of.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 464

Title: Making a False Document

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....a bill of exchange drawn by B upon Z, and negotiate the bill as though it had been accepted by Z. A is guilty of forgery; and if B, knowing the fact, draws the bill upon the paper pursuant to A's intention, B is also guilty of forgery. (c) A picks up a bill of exchange payable to the order of a different person of the same name. A endorses the bill in his own name, intending to cause it to be believed that it was endorsed by the person whose order it was payable; here A has committed forgery. (d) A purchases an estate sold under execution of a decree against B. B, after the seizure of the estate, in collusion with Z, executes a lease of the estate of Z at a nominal rent and for a long period and dates the lease six months prior to the seizure, with intent to defraud A, and to cause it to be believed that the lease was granted before the seizure, B, though he executes the lease in his own name, commits forgery by antedating it. (e) A, a trader, in anticipation of insolvency, lodges effects with B for A's benefit, and with intent to defraud his creditors; and in order to give a colour to the transaction, writes a promissory note binding himself to pay to 6 a sum for.....

The Indian Penal Code 1860 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....1908, `India', means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Under s. 2(e) of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969, `India' means for the purposes of this Act the territories to which this Act extends (i.e., whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir). According to s. 2(27) of Customs Act, 1962, `India' includes the territorial waters of India. SECTION 19: "JUDGE" The word "judge" denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a Judge, but also every person, who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, a definitive judgement or a judgement which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgement which, if confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive, or who is one of a body of persons, which body of persons is empowered by law to give such a judgement. Illustrations (a) A Collector exercising jurisdiction in a suit under Act 10 of 1859, is a Judge. (b) A Magistrate exercising jurisdiction in respect of a charge on which he has power to sentence to fine or imprisonment, with or without appeal, is a Judge. (c) A member of a Panchayat which has power.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 5

Title: Of Abetment

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....abetment, A is liable to the punishment provided for murder. Section 112 - Abettor when liable to cumulative punishment for act abetted and for act done If the act for which the abettor is liable under the last preceding section is committed in addition to the act abetted, and constitutes a distinct offence, the abettor is liable to punishment for each of the offences. Illustration A instigates B to resist by force a distress made by a public servant. B, in consequence, resists that distress. In offering the resistance, B voluntarily causes grievous hurt to the officer executing the distress. As B has committed both the offence of resisting the distress, and the offence of voluntarily causing grievous hurt. B is liable to punishment for both these offences; and, if A knew that B was likely voluntarily to cause grievous hurt in resisting the distress A will also be liable to punishment for each of the offences. Section 113 - Liability of abettor for an effect caused by the act abetted different from that intended by the abettor When an act is abetted with the intention on the part of the abettor of causing a particular effect, and an act for which the abettor is.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 119

Title: Public Servant Concealing Design to Commit Offence Which It is His Duty to Prevent

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or with both. Illustration A, an officer of police, being legally bound to give information of all designs to commit robbery which may come to his knowledge, and knowing that B designs to commit robbery, omits to give such information, with intent to facilitate the commission of that offence. Here A has by an illegal omission concealed the existence of B's design, and is liable to punishment according to the provision of this section. _______________________ 1 . Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for "transportation for life" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956). 2. Substituted vide IT Amendment Act, 2008 Prior Text was "voluntarily conceals, by any act or illegal omission, the existence of a design"

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 107

Title: Abetment of a Thing

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....of that thing, if an act or illegal omission lakes place in pursuance of that conspiracy, and in order to the doing of that thing; or Thirdly.--Intentionally aids, by any act or illegal omission, the doing of that thing. Explanation 1.A person who by wilful misrepresentation, or by wilful concealment of a material fact which he is bound to disclose, voluntarily causes or procures, or attempts to cause or procure, a thing to be done, is said to instigate the doing of that thing. Illustration A, a public officer, is authorized by a warrant from a Court of Justice to apprehend Z. B, knowing that fact and also that C is not Z, wilfully represents to A that C is Z, and thereby intentionally causes A to apprehend C. Here B abets by instigation the apprehension of C. Explanation 2.--Whoever, either prior to or at the time of the commission of an act, does anything in order to facilitate the commission of that act, and thereby facilitate the commission thereof, is said to aid the doing of that act.

Indian Councils Act, 1861 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1861

.....the Governor General by the Secretary of State in Council, with the concurrence of a majority of members of Council present at a meeting; and all enactments of any Act of Parliament or law of India respecting the Council of the Governor General of India and the members thereof shall be held to apply to the said Council as constituted by this Act, except so far as they are repealed by or are repugnant to any provisions of this Act. SECTION 05: PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENTS OF MEMBERS OF COUNCIL -It shall be lawful for the Secretary of State in Council, with the concurrence of a majority of members present at a meeting, and for Her Majesty, by warrant, as aforesaid, respectively to appoint any person provisionally to succeed to the office of ordinary member of the Council of the Governor General, when the same shall become vacant by the death or resignation of the person holding the said office, or on his departure from India with intent to return to Europe, or on any event and contigency expressed in any such provisional appointment and such appointment again to revoke; but no person so appointed to succeed provisionally to such office shall be entitled to any authority, salary,.....

Exemptions from Land Revenue (No.1) Act, 1863 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1863

.....and who have dispensed with an inquiry into such title, the said lands shall (subject to the enactments contained in Section 3 (The words "of this Act" were repealed by the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1886 (Bom. 3 of 1886), Schedule B. This Schedule is printed as an Appendix to the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904 (Bom.1 of 1904).) [* * *]) be the heritable and transferable property of the said holders, their heirs and assigns, without restriction, as to adoption, collateral succession or transfer; and such lands shall thenceforth be continued, in perpetuity subject to an annual (The words "payment to the Provincial Government" were substituted for the words "payment to Government" by the Adaptation of Indian Laws Order in Council.) [payment to the Provincial Government]. Such payment shall consist of- (1) a fixed annual payment as nazrana, in commutation of all claims [of the Crown] in respect of succession and transfer, and shall be calculated at the rate of the one anna for each rupee of assessment; (2) of a quit-rent equal to one-fourth of the assessment. The said assessment shall be ascertainable under the following rules:- Rules for ascertaining amount of.....

The Waste Land (Claims) Act, 1863 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1863

THE WASTE LAND (CLAIMS) ACT, 1863 THE WASTE LAND (CLAIMS) ACT, 1863 Act No. 23 of 1863 Contents Sections Subject 1. Provision for enquiry in claims to land, or objection to sale of same 2. Procedure in such cases 3. Postponement of sale pending enquiry, to allow claimant to contest rejection of claim 4. Sale to be stopped if claim appear to be established, but may afterwards be proceeded with 5. Delivery to claimant of copy of order of rejection or of sale 6. Power to order suit to try claim admitted by Collector 7. Special Court for trying claims 8. Notice of constitution of special Courts 9. Special Court where held 10. Plaintiff and defendant in suit under section 5. 11. Regulation of proceedings 12. Procedure before hearing 13. Procedure on hearing 14. No appeal or revision 15. Reference of question of law, etc., to High Court, etc 16. Court may proceed notwithstanding reference but not make final order 17. Records of cases where to.....

The Satara, Sholapur and Southern Maratha Country Laws Act, 1863 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1863

.....General Clauses Act, 1886 (Born 3 of 1886) Schedule B This Schedule has been printed as an Appendix to the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904 (Born. I of 1904). 3. Act 13 of 1842 is not republished, having been repealed locally by the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879 (Born. 5 of 1879). Sections 5, 6, 7. [lands; North canara; saving of prior proceedings.] Rep. ActXVof 1874. SECTION 08: VILLAGE OF MUCHANDI EXCLUDED FROM OPERATION OF REGULA LIONS AND ACTS . " The village of Muchandi, pargana Jath, in the territory of Satara, included in 1Act VI of 1842, by which certain villages in the Southern Maratha Country were brought under the Regulations and Acts of the Presidency of Bombay, shall, from and after the passing of this Act, be excluded from the operation of the Regulations and Acts of the Presidency of Bombay, anything in the said 1. Act VI of 1842 to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. 1. As to the village of Sangarn Mahuli, Taraf-Vandan. Maharashtra State Acts