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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 127

Title: Receiving Property Taken by War on Depredation Mentioned in Sections 125 and 126

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever receives any property knowing the same to have been taken in the commission of any of the offences mentioned in sections 125 and 126, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine and to forfeiture of the properly so received.

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Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 127

Title: Consideration for Guarantee

State: Central

Year: 1872

Anything done, or any promise made, for the benefit of the principal debtor, may be a sufficient consideration to the surety for giving the guarantee. Illustrations (a) B requests A to sell and deliver to him goods on credit. A agrees to do so, provided C will guarantee the payment of the price of the goods. C promises to guarantee the payment in consideration of A's promise to deliver the goods. This is a sufficient consideration for C's promise. (b) A sells and delivers goods to B. C afterwards requests A to forbear to sue B for the debt for a year, and promises that, if he does so, C will pay for them in default of payment by B. A agrees to forbear as requested. This is a sufficient consideration for C's promise. (c) A sells and delivers goods to B. C afterwards, without consideration, agrees to pay for them in default of B. The agreement is void.

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Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 127

Title: Section 126 to Apply to Interpreters, Etc

State: Central

Year: 1872

The provision of section 126 shall apply to interpreters, and the clerks or servants of barristers, pleaders, attorneys, and vakils.

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Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 127

Title: Payment of Cheque Crossed Specially More Than Once

State: Central

Year: 1881

Where a cheque is crossed specially to more than one banker, except when crossed to an agent for the purpose of collection, the banker on whom it is drawn shall refuse payment thereof.

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Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Section 127

Title: Onerous Gifts

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....one of them and refuse the others, although the former may be beneficial and the latter onerous. Onerous gift to disqualified person. A donee not competent to contract and accepting property burdened by any obligation is not bound by his acceptance. But if, after becoming competent to contract and being aware of the obligation, he retains the property given, he becomes so bound. Illustrations (a) A has shares in X, a prosperous Joint stock company, and also shares in Y, a joint stock company in difficulties. Heavy calls are expected in respect of the shares in Y. A gives B all his shares in joint stock companies. B refuses to accept the shares in Y. He cannot take the shares in X. (b) A, having a lease for a term of years of a house at a rent which he and his representatives are bound to pay during the term, and which is more than the house can be let for, gives to B the lease, and also, as a separate and independent transaction, a sum of money. B refuses to accept the lease. He does not by this refusal forfeit the money.

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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Section 127

Title: Publication of Rules

State: Central

Year: 1908

Rules so made and1[approved] shall be published in the2[Official Gazette], and shall from the dale of publication or from such other date as may be specified have the same force and effect, within the local limits of the jurisdiction of the High Court which made them, as if they had been contained in the First Schedule. ___________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1917, section 2 and Schedule 1, for "sanctioned". 2. Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "Gazette of India or in the local official Gazette, as the case may be". Strictly the substitution would read "Official Gazette or in the Official Gazette, as the case may be", but the latter words have been omitted as being redundant.

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Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Section 127

Title: Saving

State: Central

Year: 1909

{Sub-section (1) and the words "Notwithstanding the repeal effectedby this Act," in sub-section (2) rep.by Act 10 of 1914, s.3 and Sch.II} (2) {Sub-section (1) and the words "Notwithstanding the repealeffected by this Act," in sub-section (2) rep.by Act 10 of 1914, s.3 andSch.II} The proceedings under an insolvency petition under the IndianInsolvency Act, 1848, pending at the commencement of this Act shall, except sofar as any provision of this Act is expressly applied to pending proceedings,continue, and all the provisions of the said Indian Insolvency Act shall, exceptas aforesaid, apply thereto, as if this Act had not been passed.

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Government of India Act, 1915-19 [Repealed] Section 127

Title: Prosecution of Offences in England

State: Central

Year: 1915

(1), If any person holding office under the Crown in India commits any offence under this Act, or any offence against any person within his jurisdiction or subject to his authority, the offence may, without prejudice to any other jurisdiction, be inquired of, heard, tried and determined before His Majesty's High Court of Justice, and be dealt with as if committed in the country_of_Middlesex. (2) Every British subject shall be amenable to all courts of justice in the United Kingdom, of competent jurisdiction to try offences committed inIndia, for any offence committed within India and outside British India, as if the offence had been committed within British India.

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 127

Title: Enclosure of Waste Land Used for Improper Purposes

State: Central

Year: 1924

A1[Board] may, by notice in writing, require the owner or part-owner, or person claiming to be the owner or part-owner, of any building or land in the cantonment, or the lessee or the person claiming to be the lessee of any such land, which, by reason of disuse or disputed ownership or other cause, has remained unoccupied and has become the rest of idle and disorderly persons or of persons who have no ostensible means of subsistence or cannot give a satisfactory account of themselves, or is used for gaming or immoral purposes, or otherwise occasions or is likely to occasion a nuisance, to secure and enclose the same within such time as may be specified in the notice. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority".

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Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 127

Title: Bequest Upon Illegal or Immoral Condition

State: Central

Year: 1925

A bequest upon a condition, the fulfillment of which would be contrary to law or to morality is void. Illustrations A bequeaths 500 rupees to B on condition that he shall murder C. The bequest is void. A bequeaths 5,000 rupees to his niece if she will desert her husband. The bequest is void.

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