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Indian Stamp Act, 1899 Section 67

Title: Penalty for Not Drawing Full Number of Bills or Marine Policies Purporting to Be in Sets

State: Central

Year: 1899

Any person drawing or executing a bill of exchange1[payable otherwise than on demand] or a policy of marine insurance purporting to be drawn or executed in a set of two or more, and not at the same time drawing or executing on paper duly stamped the whole number of bills or policies of which such bill or policy purports the set to consist shall be publishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees. _______________________ 1. Inserted by Act. 5 of 1927, Section 5.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 101

Title: Rules of Construction Where Will Purports to Make Two Bequests to Same Person

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....intended to make the second bequest instead of or in addition to the first; if there is nothing in the Will to show what he intended, the following rules shall have effect in determining the construction to be put upon the Will: (a) If the same specific thing is bequeathed twice to the same legatee in the same Will or in the Will and again in the codicil, he is entitled to receive that specific thing only. (b) Where one and the same Will or one and the same codicil purports to make, in two places, a bequest to the same person of the same quantity or amount of anything, he shall be entitled to one such legacy only. (c) Where two legacies of unequal amount are given to the same person in the same Will, or in the same codicil, the legatee is entitled to both. (d) Where two legacies, whether equal or unequal in amount, are given to the same legatee, one by a Will and the other by a codicil, or each by a different codicil, the legatee is entitled to both legacies. Explanation: In clauses (a) to (d) of this section, the word "Will" does not include a codicil. Illustrations (i) A, having ten shares, and no more, in the Imperial Bank of India, made his Will, which contains.....

Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885) Section 26

Title: Telegraph Officer or Other Official Making Away with or Altering, or Unlawfully Intercepting or Disclosing, Messages, or Divulging Purport of Signals

State: Central

Year: 1885

If any telegraph officer, or any person, not being a telegraph officer but having official duties connected with any office which is used as a telegraph office,-- (a) wilfully secrets, makes away with or alters any message which he has received for transmission or delivery, or (b) wilfully, and otherwise than in obedience to an order of the Central Government or of a State Government, or of an officer specially authorised1[by the Central or a State Government] to make the order, omits to transmit or intercepts or detains, any message or any part thereof, or otherwise than in pursuance of his official duty or in obedience to the direction of a competent court, discloses the contents or any part of the contents of any message, to any person not entitled to receive the same, or (c) divulges the purport of any telegraphic signal to any person not entitled to become acquainted with the same, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine, or with both. _____________________ 1. Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "by the Governor-General in Council".

Karnataka Dramatic Performances Act, 1964 Section 9

Title: Power to Call for Copy of Purport of Drama, Etc

State: Karnataka

Year: 1964

(1) If the State Government or the Deputy Commissioner has reason to believe that an objectionable dramatic performance is about to take place, it or he, as the case may be, may by order, direct that no such dramatic performance shall take place in any public place within any area, unless a copy of the piece, if and so far as it is written, or some sufficient account of its purport, if and so far as it is in pantomime, has been furnished, not less than seven days before the performance, to the State Government or the Deputy Commissioner aforesaid. (2) A copy of any order made under sub-section (1) shall be served on the organisers or other principal persons responsible for the conduct of the dramatic performance or the owner or occupier of the public place in which such performance is intended to take place, and if thereafter any such person does or willingly permits, any act in disobedience of such order, he shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.

Dramatic Performances Act, 1964 Section 9

Title: Power to Call for Copy of Purport of Drama, Etc.

State: Karnataka

Year: 1964

(1) If the State Government or the Deputy Commissioner has reason to believe that an objectionable dramatic performance is about to take place, it or he, as the case may be, may by order, direct that no such dramatic performance shall take place in any public place within any area, unless a copy of the piece, if and so far as it is written, or some sufficient account of its purport, if and so far as it is in pantomime, has been furnished, not less than seven days before the performance, to the State Government or the Deputy Commissioner aforesaid. (2) A copy of any order made under sub-section (1) shall be served on the organisers or other principal persons responsible for the conduct of the dramatic performance or the owner or occupier of the public place in which such performance is intended to take place, and if thereafter any such person does or willingly permits, any act in disobedience of such order, he shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.

Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964 Section 92

Title: Arrangements Purporting to Be Binding Permanently or for a Term of Years

State: Karnataka

Year: 1964

When a municipal council has entered into any arrangement, or made any promise, purporting to bind itself or its successors for a term of years or for an unlimited period, to continue to any educational or charitable institution a yearly contribution from the municipal property or fund, it shall be lawful for the municipal council, or its successors, with the sanction of the Government, to cancel such arrangement or promise, or to discontinue or to diminish such yearly contribution provided that it shall have given at least twelve months' notice of its intention so to do to the manager or managers of such institution.

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Part 2

Title: On Proof

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....the facts admitted to be proved otherwise than by such admission. INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT 1872Chapter 4 - OF ORAL EVIDENCE Section 59 - Proof of facts by oral evidence All facts, except the 1 [contents of documents or electronic records], may be proved by oral evidence. _____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 21 of 2000, section 92 and Schedule II, for "contents of documents" (w.e.f. 17-10-2000). Section 60 - Oral evidence must be direct Oral evidence must, in all cases whatever, be direct; that is to say-- If it refers to a fact which could be seen, it must be the evidence of a witness who says he saw it; If it refers to a fact which could be heard, it must be the evidence of a witness who says he heard it; If it refers to a fact which could be perceived by any other sense or in any other manner, it must be the evidence of a witness who says he perceived it by that senseor in that manner; If it refers to an opinion or to the grounds on which that opinion is held, it must be the evidence of the person who holds that opinion on those grounds: Provided that the opinions of experts expressed in any treatise commonly offered for sate, and the grounds on.....

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Chapter 5

Title: Of Documentary Evidence

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....may be, of the Crown Representative]; (2) The proceedings of the Legislatures,-- by the journals of those bodies respectively, or by published Acts or abstracts, or by copies purporting to be printed3[by order of the Government concerned]; (3) Proclamations, orders or regulations issued by4[Her Majesty] or by the Privy Council, or by any department of4[Her Majesty's] Government,- by copies or extracts contained in the London Gazette, or purporting to be printed by the Queen's printer; (4) the acts of the Executive or the proceedings of the Legislature of a foreign country,-- by journals published by their authority, or commonly received in that country as such, or by a copy certified under the seal of the country or sovereign, or by a recognition thereof in some5[Central Act]; (5) The proceedings of a municipal body in6[a State], by a copy of such proceedings, certified by the legal keeper thereof, or by a printed book purporting to be published by the authority of such body; (6) Public documents of any other class in a foreign country,-- by the original, or by a copy certified by the legal keeper thereof, with a certificate under the seal of a Notary.....

Companies Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....as in the (Depositories Act, 1996) (22 of 1996); (12B) "derivative" has the same meaning as in clause (aa) of (S.2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956) (42 of 1956);] (13) "director" includes any person occupying the position of director, by whatever name called; (14) "District Court" means the principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction in a district, but does not include a High Court in the exercise of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction ; [(14A) "dividend" includes any interim dividend;] (15) "document" includes summons, notice, requisition, order, other legal process, and registers, whether issued, sent or kept in pursuance of this or any other Act or otherwise ; [(15A) "employees stock option" means the option given to the whole-time directors, officers or employees of a company, which gives such directors, officers or employees the benefit or right to purchase or subscribe at a future date, the securities offered by the company at a pre-determined price;] (16) "existing company" means an existing company as defined in (section 3); (17) "financial year" means, in relation to any body corporate, the period in respect of which.....

Indian Evidence Act, 1872 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....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, nature or extent of any right, liability, or disability, asserted or denied on any suit or proceeding, necessarily follows. Explanation - Whenever, under the provisions of the law for the time being in force relating to Civil Procedure, any Court records an issue of fact, the fact to be asserted or denied in the answer to such issue is a fact in issue. Illustrations A is accused of the murder of B. At his trial the following facts may be in issue:- That caused A B's death; That A intended to cause Bs' death; That A had received grave and sudden provocation from B; That A, at the time of doing the act which caused B's death, was, by reason of unsoundness of mind, incapable of knowing its nature. "Documents" " "Documents" means any matter expressed of described upon any substance by means of letters, figures or marks, or by more than one of those means,.....