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Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Section 27

Title: Conditional Transfer to One Person Coupled with Transfer to Another on Failure of Prior Disposition

State: Central

Year: 1882

Where, on a transfer of property, an interest therein is created in favour of one person, and by the same transaction an ulterior disposition of the same interest is made in favour of another, if the prior disposition under the transfer shall fail, the ulterior disposition shall take effect upon the failure of the prior disposition, although the failure may not have occurred in the manner contemplated by the transferor. But, where the intention of the parties to the transaction is that the ulterior disposition shall take effect only in the event of the prior disposition failing in a particular manner, the ulterior disposition shall not take effect unless the prior disposition fails in that manner. Illustrations (a) A transfers Rs. 500 to B on condition that he shall execute a certain lease within three months after A's death, and, if he should neglect to do so, to C. B dies in A's life-time. The disposition in favour of C takes effect. (b) A transfers property to his wife; but, in case she should die in his life-time, transfers to B that which he had transferred to her. A and his wife perish together, under circumstances which make it impossible to prove that she died.....

Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Section 78

Title: Postponement of Prior Mortgage

State: Central

Year: 1882

Where, through the fraud, misrepresentation or gross neglect of a prior mortgagee, another person has been induced to advance money on the security of the mortgaged property, the prior mortgagee shall be postponed to the subsequent mortgagee.

Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Section 16

Title: Transfer to Take Effect on Failure of Prior Interest

State: Central

Year: 1882

1 [16. Transfer to take effect on failure of prior interest Where, by reason of any of the rules contained in sections 13 and 14, an interest created for the benefit of a person or of a class of persons fails in regard to such person or the whole of such class, any interest created in the same transaction and intended to take effect after or upon failure of such prior interest also fails. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 20 of 1929, Section 10, for the original sections 16 to 18.

Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Section 30

Title: Prior Disposition Not Affected by Invalidity of Ulterior Disposition

State: Central

Year: 1882

If the ulterior disposition is not valid, the prior disposition is not affected by it. Illustration A transfers a farm to B for her life, and, if she do not desert her husband to C. B is entitled to the farm during her life as if no condition had been inserted.

The Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....for relief, whether such debt or beneficial interest be existent, accruing, conditional or contingent;] 17 ["a person is said to have notice" of a fact when he actually knows that fact, or when, but for wilful abstention from an enquiry or search which he ought to have made, or gross negligence, he would have known it. Explanation 1. "Where any transaction relating to immovable property is required by law to be and has been effected by a registered instrument, any person acquiring such property or any part of, or share or interest in, such property shall be deemed to have notice of such instrument as from the date of registration or, where the property is not all situated in one sub-district, or where the registered instrument has been registered under sub-section (2) of section 30 of the Indian Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), from the earliest date on which any memorandum of such registered instrument has been filed by any Sub-Registrar within whose sub-district any part of the property which is being acquired, or of the property wherein a share or interest is being acquired, is situated:] Provided that " (1) the instrument has been registered and its registration.....

Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Chapter IV

Title: Of Mortgages of Immovable Property and Charges

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....times, at his request and at his own cost, and on payment of the mortgagee's costs and expenses in this behalf, to inspect and make copies or abstracts of, or extracts from, documents of title relating to the mortgaged property which are in the custody or power of the mortgagee.] Section 61 - Right to redeem separately or simultaneously 1 [61. Right to redeem separately or simultaneously A mortgagor who has executed two ormore mortgages in favour of the same mortgagee shall, in the absence of acontract to the contrary, when the principal money of any two or more of themortgages has become due, be entitled to redeem any one such mortgageseparately, or any two or more of such mortgages together.] ________________________ 1. Substituted byAct 20 of 1929, section 24 for the original section. Section 62 - Right of usufructuary mortgagor to recover possession In the case of a usufructuary mortgage, the mortgagor has a right to recover possession of the property 1 [together with the mortgage-deed and all documents relating to the mortgaged property which are in the possession or power of the mortgagee], - (a) where the mortgagee is authorized to pay himself the.....

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.....

Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Complete Act

Title: Transfer of Property Act, 1882

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....incidents, rights, liabilities, etc. Section3 - Interpretation-clause Section4 - Enactments relating to contracts to be taken as part of Contract Act and supplemental to the Registration Act. ChapterII - OF TRANSFERS OF PROPERTY BY ACT OF PARTIES Section5 - Transfer of property defined Section6 - What may be transferred Section7 - Persons competent to transfer Section8 - Operation of transfer Section9 - Oral transfer Section10 - Condition restraining alienation Section11 - Restriction repugnant to interest created Section12 - Condition making interest determinable on insolvency or attempted alienation Section13 - Transfer for benefit of unborn person Section14 - Rule against perpetuity Section15 - Transfer to class some of whom come under sections 13 and 14 Section16 - Transfer to take effect on failure of prior interest Section17 - Direction for accumulation Section18 - Transfer in perpetuity for benefit of public Section19 - Vested interest Section20 - When unborn person acquires vested interest on transfer for his benefit Section21 - Contingent interest Section22 - Transfer to members of a class who attain a particular age Section23 - Transfer.....

Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Section 79

Title: Mortgage to Secure Uncertain Amount when Maximum is Expressed

State: Central

Year: 1882

If a mortgage made to secure future advances, the performance of an engagement or the balance of a running account, expresses the maximum to be secured thereby, a subsequent mortgage of the same property shall, if made with notice of the prior mortgage, be postponed to the prior mortgage in respect of all advances or debits not exceeding the maximum, though made or allowed with notice of the subsequent mortgage. Illustration A mortgages Sultanpur to his bankers, B & Co., to secure the balance of his account with them to the extent of Rs. 10,000. A then mortgages Sultanpur to C, to secure Rs. 10,000, C having notice of the mortgage to B & Co., and C gives notice to B & Co. of the second mortgage. At the date of the second mortgage, the balance due to B & Co. does not exceed Rs. 5,000.B & Co. subsequently advance to A sums making the balance of the account against him exceed the sum of Rs. 10,000. B & Co. are entitled, to the extent of Rs. 10,000, to priority over C.

Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Section 81

Title: Marshalling, Securities

State: Central

Year: 1882

1 [81. Marshalling, securities If the owner of two or moreproperties mortgages them to one person and then mortgages one or more of theproperties to another person, the subsequent mortgagee is, in the absence of acontract to the contrary, entitled to have the prior mortgage-debt satisfied outof the property or properties not mortgaged to him, so far as the same willextend, but not so as to prejudice the rights of the prior mortgagee or of anyother person who has for consideration acquired an interest in any of theproperties.] ________________________ 1. Substituted byAct 20 of 1929, Section 42, for the original section.