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Home Bare Acts Phrase: s 256NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1881 Section 40
Title: Discharge of indorser's liability
State: Central
Year: 1881
Where the holder of a negotiable instrument, without the consent of the indorser, destroys or impairs the indorser's remedy against a prior party, the indorser is discharged from liability to the holder to the same extent as if the instrument had been paid at maturity. Illustration A is the holder of a bill of exchange made payable to the order of B, which contains the following indorsements in blank:-- First indorsement, "B". Second indorsement, "Peter Williams". Third indorsement "Wright & Co.". Fourth indorsement, "John Rozario". This bill A puts in suit against John Rozario and strikes out, without John Rozario's consent, the indorsements by Peter Williams and Wright & Co. A is not entitled to recover anything from John Rozario.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1881 Section 45A
Title: Holder's right to duplicate of lost bill
State: Central
Year: 1881
1[ 45 A. Holder's right to duplicate of lost bill Where a bill of exchange has been lost before it is over-due, the person who was the holder of it may apply to the dr awer to give hi m another bill of the same tenor, giving security to the dr awer, if required, to indemnify hi m against all persons whatever in case the bill alleged to have been lost sh all be found again. If the dr awer on request as aforesaid refuses to give such duplicate bill, he may be compelled to do so.] _______________________ 1 . Inserted b y Act 2 of 1885 , sec. 3 .
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1881 Section 146
Title: Bank's slip prima facie evidence of certain facts
State: Central
Year: 1881
The Court shall, in respect of every proceeding under this Chapter, on production of bank's slip or memo having thereon the official mark denoting that the cheque has been dishonoured, presume the fact of dishonour of such cheque, unless and until such fact is disproved.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionEMPLOYEE'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1923 Chapter 2
Title: EMPLOYEES'S COMPENSATION
State: Central
Year: 1923
.....an from the injury amount equal to 2[fifty per cent.] of the monthly wages of the deceased 14[employee] multiplied by the relevant factor; or an amount of 9[one lakh and twenty thousand rupees], whichever is more; (b) where permanent total disablement results from the injury an amount equal to 4[sixty per cent.] of the monthly wages of the injured 14[employee] multiplied by the relevant factor; or an amount of 10[one lakh and forty thousand rupees], whichever is more; 11[Provided that the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, from time to time, enhance the amount of compensation mentioned in clauses (a) and (b).] Explanation I.--For the purposes of clause (a) and clause (b), "relevant factor", in relation to a 14[employee] means the factor specified in the second column of Schedule IV against the entry in the first column of that Schedule specifying the number of years which are the same as the completed years of the age of the 14[employee] on his last birthday immediately preceding the date on which the compensation fell.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionEMPLOYEE'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1923 Preamble
Title: [EMPLOYEES'S] COMPENSATION ACT, 1923
State: Central
Year: 1923
.....Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1922, Pt. V, p. 313, and for Report of Joint Committee, see Gazette of India, 1923, Pt. V, p. 37. This Act has been extended to Berar by the Berar Laws Act, 1941 (4 of 1941), to Goa, Daman and Diu by Reg. 12 of 1962, sec. 3 and Sch.; to Dadra and Nagar Haveli by Reg. 6 of 1963, sec. 2 and Sch. I, to Pondicherry by Reg. 7 of 1963, sec. 3 and Sch. I, and to Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands by Reg. 8 of 1965, sec. 3 and Sch., and has also been declared in force in the district of Khondmals by sec. 3 and Sch. of the Khondmals Laws Regulation, 1936 (4 of 1936) and in the district of Angul by sec. 3 and Sch. of the Angul Laws Regulation, 1936 (5 of 1936). Extended to Sikkim w.e.f. 1-11-1986 vide G.S.R. 529 (E), dt. 30-12-1986. This Act has been modified in its application to apprentices under the Apprentices Act, 1961 (52 of 1961) by sec. 16 and Sch. to that Act. 2. Substituted by the Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act, 2009 to be effective from 18.01.2010 vide Notification No. S.O. 101(E) dated 18.01.2010 previous text was:- : "WORKMEN'S" 3. Substituted by the Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act, 2009 to be effective.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionMARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Complete Act
Title: MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874
State: Central
Year: 1874
Preamble1 - MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Chapter I Section1 - Short title Section2 - Extent and application Section3 - Commencement [Repealed] Chapter II Section4 - Married women's earnings to be their separate property Chapter III Section5 - Married women may effect policy of insurance Section6 - Insurance by husband for benefit of wife Chapter IV Section7 - Married women may take legal proceedings Section8 - Wife's liability for post-nuptial debts Chapter V Section9 - Husband not liable for wife's ante-nuptial debts ChapterVI - HUSBAND'S LIABILITY FOR BREACH OF TRUST OF DEVASTATION Section10 - Extent of husband's liability for wife's breach of trust or devastation
List Judgments citing this sectionWOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S INSTITUTIONS (LICENSING) ACT, 1956[REPEALED] Preamble 1
Title: WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S INSTITUTIONS (LICENSING) ACT, 1956
State: Central
Year: 1956
THE WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S INSTITUTIONS (LICENSING) ACT, 1956 [Act, No. 105 of 1956] [30th December, 1956] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the licensing of institutions for women and children and for matters incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionMARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Chapter V
Title: HUSBAND'S LIABILITY FOR WIFE'S DEBTS
State: Central
Year: 1874
A husband married after the thirty-first day of December, 1865 sh all not by reason only of such marriage be liable to the debts of hi s wife contracted before marriage, but the wife sh all be liable to be sued for, and sh all, to the extent of her separate property, be liable to satisfy such debts as if he had continued unmarried: Provided that nothing contained in this section sh all1[* * *] invalidate any contract into which a husband may, before the passing of this Act, have entered in consideration of hi s wife's ante-nuptial debts. _______________________ 1. The words "affect any suit instituted before the passing of this Act, not" rep . b y Act 12 of 1891 , Sec. 2 and Sch. I.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCOUNTESS OF DUFFERIN'S FUND ACT, 1957[REPEALED] Repealing Act 1
Title: COUNTESS OF DUFFERIN'S FUND (REPEAL) ACT, 2002
State: Central
Year: 1957
THE COUNTESS OF DUFFERIN'S FUND (REPEAL) ACT, 2002 [Act, No. 65 of 2002] [18th December, 2002] PREAMBLE An Act to repeal the Countess of Dufferin's Fund Act, 1957. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows: 1. Short title This Act may be called the Countess of Dufferin's Fund (Repeal) Act, 2002. 2. Repeal of Act 63 of 1957 The Countess of Dufferin's Fund Act, 1957 is hereby repealed.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionWOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S INSTITUTIONS (LICENSING) ACT, 1956[REPEALED] Complete Act
Title: WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S INSTITUTIONS (LICENSING) ACT, 1956[REPEALED]
State: Central
Year: 1956
Preamble1 - WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S INSTITUTIONS (LICENSING) ACT, 1956 Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement Section2 - Definitions Section3 - Licensing of institutions Section4 - Application for licence Section5 - Grant of licence Section6 - Licence not transferable Section7 - Revocation of licence Section8 - Appeals Section9 - Penalty Section10 - Act not to apply to certain institutions Section11 - Power to make rules Section12 - Repeal and savings Repealing Act1 - ORPHANAGES AND OTHER CHARITABLE HOMES (SUPERVISION AND CONTROL) ACT, 1960
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