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Bengal Bonded Warehouse Association Act, 1838 Section 31

Title: Individual Members Not to Be Liable

State: Central

Year: 1838

.....but 2 * * * the party or parties having any legal or equitable demand or claim for or on the account last aforesaid, or having obtained such judgment or decree as last aforesaid, shall and may only recover the amount of such demand, claim, judgment or decree from and out of or to the whole extent of the paid up Capital, accumulated Funds, Lands, Messuages. Tenements, Hereditaments and Premises whatsoever and wheresoever, which may at the time belong to the said Association, or to which they may at the time be entitled. _________________________ 1. The words "And it is hereby enacted, that" omitted by Act 12 of 1891, section. 2 and Schedule I. 2. The word "that" omitted by Act 12 of 1981, section 2 and Schedule I.

Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 Section 1A

Title: Suit for Compensation to the Family of a Person for Loss Occasioned to It by His Death by Actionable Wrong

State: Central

Year: 1855

.....administrator or representative of the person deceased; and in every such action, the court may give such damages as it may think proportioned to the loss resulting from such death to the parties respectively, for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought, and the amount so recovered, after deducting all costs and expenses, including the costs not recovered from the defendant, shall be divided amongst the before-mentioned parties, or any of them, in such shares as the court by its judgment or decree shall direct. _______________________ 1. Original section 1 renumbered as section 1A by Act 3 of 1951, section 3 and Schedule 2. The words "And it is enacted further, that" repealed by Act 10 of 1914, Schedule II.

Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 Section 2

Title: Not More Than One Suit to Be Brought

State: Central

Year: 1855

Provided always that not more than one action or suit shall be brought for, and in respect of the same subject-matter of complaint1[* * * * *] Claim for loss to the estate may be added. -- Provided that in any such action or suit the executor, administrator or representative of the deceased may insert a claim for. and recover any pecuniary loss to the estate of the deceased occasioned by such wrongful act, neglect or default, which sum, when recovered, shall be deemed part of the assets of the estate of the deceased. ________________________ 1. The words "and that every such action shall be brought within twelve calendar months after the death of such deceased person", repealed by Act 9 of 1871. For limitation, now the Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963).

Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 Section 3

Title: Plaintiff Shall Deliver Particulars, Etc.

State: Central

Year: 1855

The plaint in any such action or suit shall give a full particular of the-person or persons for whom, or on whose behalf, such action or suit shall be brought, and of the nature of the claim in respect of which damages shall be sought to be recovered.

Legal Representatives Suits Act, 1855 Section 1

Title: Executors May Sue and Be Sued in Certain Cases for Wrongs Committed in Lifetime of Deceased

State: Central

Year: 1855

.....and the damages.when recovered, shall be part of the personal estate of such person; and further, an action may be maintained against the executors or administrators or heirs or representatives of any person deceased for any wrong committed by him in his lifetime for which he would have been subject to an action, so as such wrong shall have been committed within one year before such person's death {The words " and so as such action shall he commenced within two years after the committing of the wrong " rep by Act 9 of 1871, s.2.For limitation see now Act 9 of 1908.} ; and the damages to be recovered in such action shall, if recovered against an executor or administrator bound to administer according to the English law, be payable in like order of administration as the simple contract debts of such person.

Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1855

.....excluded by the context or by the nature of the subject-matter; that is to say,6[* * *] the word "person" shall apply to bodies politic and corporate; and the word "parent" shall include father and mother, grand-father and grand- mother; and the word "child" shall include son and daughter, and grand-son and grand-daughter, and step-son and step-daughter. Footnotes: 2. Inserted by the Part B Stales (Laws) Act, 1951. 3. Section I renumbered as section 1A Act, 1951 . 4. The words 'And it is enacted further that" omitted by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914. 5. The words "and that every such action shall be brought within twelve calendar months after the death of such deceased person" omitted by the Indian Limitation Act, 1871. For limitation, see now the Indian Limitation Act, 1908 (9 of 1908). 6. Certain words omitted by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914. Central Bare Acts

LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES' SUITS ACT, 1855 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1855

.....of certain wrongs which, according to the present law, do not survive to or against such executors, administrators or representatives. It is enacted as follows :- SECTION 01: EXECUTORS MAY SUE AND BE SUED IN CERTAIN CASES FOR WRONGS COMMITTED IN LIFETIME OF DECEASED An action may be maintained by the executors, administrators or representatives of any person deceased, for any wrong committed in the lifetime of such person, which has occasioned pecuniary loss to his estate, for which wrong an action might have been maintained by such person, so as such wrong shall have been committed within one year before his death4[* * *]; and the damages when recovered, shall be part of the personal estate of such person: and further, an action may be maintained against the executors or administrators or heirs or representatives of any person deceased for any wrong committed by him in his lifetime for which he would have been subject to an action, so as such wrong shall have been committed within one year before such person's death 5[* * *]; and the damages to be recovered in such action shall, if recovered against an executor or administrator bound to administer according to the English.....

The (Bengal) Embankment Act, 1855 Complete Act

State: Orissa

Year: 1855

.....the Collector shall thereupon proceed to value and make compensation for such huts, trees and crops, in the manner prescribed in Section 12 of this Act. Section 8 - Section 8 Clause 1. Application by land-holder to have a sluice made in public embankment - If any land-holder, farmer or cultivator be desirous of having a sluice made in any public embankment for the purpose of drainage or irrigation, he shall make an application in writing to the Collector of the district in which such embankment is situate. The application shall contain such particulars of the land to be drained or irrigated as may enable the officers of the Crown to judge of the advantage which may be derived from the work, and shall declare as regards an embankment maintained at the expense of the State, whether the applicant is willing to bear such part, not exceeding half of the cost thereof, as may be determined by the Provincial Government; and, as regards any other public embankment whether the applicant is willing to defray the whole or such part of the cost incidental to and attendant on, the proposed work, as may be determined as aforesaid. Clause 2. Officer in immediate charge to report on.....

Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Section 7

Title: In Case of Delay, Other Parties May Reinstate, and Recover the Expenses

State: Central

Year: 1857

If any such delay or omission as aforesaid take place, the persons having the control or management of the street, bridge, sewer, drain, or tunnel, in respect of which such delay or omission shall take place, may cause the work so delayed or omitted to be executed ; and the expense of executing the same shall be repaid to such persons by the said Company ; and the amount of such expense shall, in case of any dispute about the same, be ascertained and recovered in Calcutta and in any other town or place subject to the jurisdiction of any of Her Majesty's Courts of Judicature, in the manner in which expenses are ascertained and recovered under Act XIV of 1856 { Rep.by Act 16 of 1874.}, and in town or place not within the Jurisdiction of any of Her Majesty's Courts, in the same manner as damages are recoverable under this Act.(Expense how to be ascertained and recovered.)

Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Section 9

Title: Recovery of Rent Due for Gas

State: Central

Year: 1857

If any person supplied with Gas, or any person to whom any meter of fitting shall have been let for hire by the said Company, the said Company may stop the Gas from entering the premises of such person, by cutting off the service-pipes, or by such means as the said Company shall think fit, and recover the rent due from such person, together with the expenses if cutting off the Gas, by action in any Court of competent jurisdiction.