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Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 151

Title: Indecent and Scandalous Questions

State: Central

Year: 1872

The Court may forbid any questions or inquiries which it regards as indecent or scandalous, although such questions or inquiries may have some bearing on the questions before the Court, unless they relate to facts in issue, or to matters necessary to be known in order to determine whether or not the facts in issue existed.

Dramatic Performances Act, 1876 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1876

.....suspected to have been used, or to be intended to be used, for the purpose of such performance. SECTION 09: SAVING OF PROSECUTIONS UNDER PENAL CODE, SECTIONS 124A AND 294 - No conviction under this Act shall bar a prosecution undersection 124A-orsection 294 of the Indian Penal Code- SECTION 10: POWER TO PROHIBIT DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE IN ANY LOCAL AREA, EXCEPT UNDER LICENCE - Whenever it appears to the7[State Government] that the provisions of this section are required in any local area, it may8[* * *] declare, by notification in the Official Gazette, that such provisions are applied to such area from a day to be fixed in the notification. On and after that day, the7[State Government] may order that no dramatic performance shall take place in any place of public entertainment within such area, except under a licence to be granted by such7[State Government], or such officer as it may specially empower in this behalf. The7[State Government] may also order that no dramatic performance shall take place in any place of public entertainment within such 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.....

Code of Civil Procedure 1908 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....under the Government; (d) every officer of a Court of Justice whose duty it is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to make, authenticate or keep any document, or to take charge or dispose of any property, or to execute any judicial process, or to administer any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order in the Court, and every person especially authorized by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties; (e) every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement; (f) every officer of the Government whose duty it is, as such officer, to prevent offences, to give information of offences, to bring offenders to justice, or to protect the public health, safety or convenience; (g) every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any property on behalf of the Government, or to make any survey, assessment or contract on behalf of the Government, or to execute any revenue process, or to investigate, or to report on, any matter affecting the pecuniary interests of the Government, or to make, authenticate or keep any document relating to the pecuniary.....

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Rule 1 to 23

Title: Discovery and Inspection

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....to minors This Order shall apply to minor plaintiffs and defendants, and to the next friends and guardians for the suit of persons under disability. ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 46 of 1999, sec. 21(i) (w.e.f. 1-7-2002). 2. Substituted by Act 104 of 1976, section 61(ii), for "or on any other ground" (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). 3. Substituted by Act 46 of 1999, sec. 21(ii), for "at any time" (w.e.f. 1-7-2002). 4. Inserted by Act 104 of 1976 section 61(ii) (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). 5. Rule 21 renumbered as sub-rule (1) of that rule by Act 104 of 1976, section 61(iv) (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). 6. Substituted by Act 104 of 1976, section 61(iv)(a), for "an order may be made accordingly" (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). 7. Inserted by Act 104 of 1976, section 61(iv)(b) (w.e.f. 01.02.1977).

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Part 3

Title: Production and Effect of Evidence

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....PROOF Section 101 - Burden of proof Whoever desires any Court to give judgment as to any legal right or liability dependent on the existence of facts which he asserts, must prove that those facts exist. When a person is bound to prove the existence of any fact, it is said that the burden of proof lies on that person. Illustrations (a) A desires a Court to give judgment that B shall be punished for a crime which A says B has committed. A must prove that B has committed the crime. (b) A desires a Court to give judgment that he is entitled to certain land in the possession of B, by reason of facts which he asserts, and which B denies, to be true. A must prove the existence of those facts. Section 102 - On whom burden of proof lies The burden of proof in a suit or proceeding lies on that person who would fail if no evidence at all were given on either side. Illustrations (a) A sues B for land of which B is in possession, and which, as A asserts, was left to A by the will of C, B's father. If no evidence were given on either side, B would be entitled to retain his possession. Therefore the burden of proof is on A. (b) A sues B for money due on a bond. .....

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Chapter 10

Title: Of the Examination of Witnesses

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....the discretion of the Court. Section 136 - Judge to decide as to admissibility of evidence When either party proposes to give evidence of any fact, the Judge may ask the party proposing to give the evidence in what manner the alleged fact, if proved, would be relevant; and the Judge shall admit the evidence if he thinks that the fact, if proved, would be relevant, and not otherwise. If the fact proposed to be proved is one of which evidence is admissible only upon proof of some other fact, such last-mentioned fact must be proved before evidence is given of the fact first mentioned, unless the party undertakes to give proof of such fact, and the Court is satisfied with such undertaking. If the relevancy of one alleged fact depends upon another alleged fact being first proved, the Judge may, in his discretion, either permit evidence of the first fact to be given before the second fact is proved, or require evidence to be given of the second fact before evidence is given of the first fact. Illustrations (a) It is proposed to prove a statement about a relevant fact by a person alleged to be dead, which statement is relevant under section 32. The fact that the person.....

Indian Evidence Act, 1872 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....appears from the context- "Court"- includes all Judges and Magistrates, and all persons, except arbitrators, legally authorized to take evidence. "Fact" " "Fact" means and includes- (1) any thing, state of things, or relation of things, capable of being perceived by the sense; (2) any mental condition of which any person is conscious. Illustrations (a) That there are certain objects arranged in a certain order in a certain place, is a fact. (b) That a man heard or saw something is a fact. (c) That a man said certain words is a fact. (d) That a man holds a certain opinion, has a certain intention, acts in goods faith or fraudulently, or uses a particular word in a particular sense, or is or was at a specified time conscious of a particulars sensation, is a fact. (e) That a man has a certain reputation is a fact. "Relevant" " One fact is said to be relevant 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,.....

The Commercial Courts, Commercial Division &Amp; Commercial Appellate Division Of High Courts Act, 2015 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2015

.....signed by the party or by one of the parties to the proceedings, or by any other person on behalf of such party or parties who is proved to the satisfaction of the Court to be acquainted with the facts of the case and who is duly authorised by such party or parties. (3) Where a pleading is amended, the amendments must be verified in the form and manner referred to in sub-rule (1) unless the Court orders otherwise. (4) Where a pleading is not verified in the manner provided under sub-rule (1), the party shall not be permitted to rely on such pleading as evidence or any of the matters set out therein. (5) The Court may strike out a pleading which is not verified by a Statement of Truth, namely, the affidavit set out in the Appendix to this Schedule. ; (C) in Order VII, after Rule 2, the following Rule shall be inserted, namely: 2A. Where interest is sought in the suit, (1) Where the plaintiff seeks interest, the plaint shall contain a statement to that effect along with the details set out under sub-rules (2) and (3). (2) Where the plaintiff seeks interest, the plaint shall state whether the plaintiff is seeking interest in relation to a commercial transaction within the meaning.....

Dramatic Performances Act, 1876 Preamble 1

Title: Dramatic Performances Act, 1876

State: Central

Year: 1876

THE DRAMATIC PERFORMANCES ACT, 1876 [Act, No. 19 of 1876]1 [AS ON 1956] [16th December, 1876] PREAMBLE An Act for the better control of public dramatic performances. WHEREAS it is expedient to empower the Government to prohibit public dramatic performances which are scandalous, defamatory, seditious or obscene; It is hereby enacted as follows:-- ________________________ 1. This Act has been repealed in its application to Madras by Mad. Act 33 of 1954.

Dramatic Performances Act, 1876 Section 3

Title: Power to Prohibit Certain Dramatic Performances

State: Central

Year: 1876

Whenever the State Government is of opinion that any play, pantomime or other drama performed or about to be performed in a public place is-- (a) of a scandalous or defamatory nature, or (b) likely to excite feelings of disaffection to the Government established by law in {Subs. by the A.O.1948 for "British India or British Burma"}[India] or (c) likely to deprave and corrupt persons present at the performance, the State Government, or outside the Presidency-towns {The words "and Rangoon" were rep. by the A.O.1937} the State Government or such Magistrate as it may empower in this behalf, may by order prohibit the performance. Explanation.--Any building or enclosure to which the public are admitted to witness a performance on payment of money shall be deemed a "public place" within the meaning of this section.