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Title: Wearing Garb or Carrying Token Used by Soldier, Sailor or Airman
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whoever, not being a soldier,1[sailor or airman], in the Military,2[Naval or Air] service of the3[Government of India], wears any garb or carries any token resembling any garb or token used by such a soldier,1[sailor or airman] with the intention that it may be believed that he is such a soldier,1[sailor or airman], shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both. ____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 10 of 1927, section 2 and Schedule I. for "or sailor". 2. Substituted by Act 10 of 1927, section 2 and Schedule I. for "or Navy". 3. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "Queen".
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Contract Act, 1872 Section 140
Title: Rights of Surety on Payment or Performance
State: Central
Year: 1872
Where a guaranteed debt has become due, or default of the principal debtor to perform a guaranteed duty has taken place, the surety, upon payment or performance of all that he is liable for, is invested with all the rights which the creditor had against the principal debtor.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Evidence Act 1872 Section 140
Title: Witnesses to Character
State: Central
Year: 1872
Witnesses to character may be cross-examined and re-examined.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNegotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 140
Title: Defence Which May Not Be Allowed in Any Prosecution Under Section 138
State: Central
Year: 1881
1[ 140 . Defence which may not be allowed in any prosecution under section 138 It sh all not be a defence in a prosecution for an offence under section 138 that the dr awer had no reason to believe when he issued the cheque that the cheque may be dishonoured on presentment for the reasons stated in that section.] ___________________ 1. Inserted by Act 66 of 1988, sec. 4 (w .e.f. 1- 4- 1989).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCode of Civil Procedure, 1908 Section 140
Title: Assessors in Causes of Salvage, Etc.
State: Central
Year: 1908
(1) In any admiralty or vice-admiralty cause of salvage, towage or collision, the Court, whether it be exercising its original or its appellate jurisdiction, may, if it thinks fit, and shall upon request of either party to such cause, summon to its assistance, in such manner as it may direct or as may be prescribed, two competent assessors; and such assessors shall attend and assist accordingly. (2) Every such assessor shall receive such fees for his attendance, to be paid by such of the parties as the Court may direct or as may be prescribed.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCantonments Act, 1924 Section 140
Title: Power to Require Repair or Alteration of Building
State: Central
Year: 1924
(1) Where any building in a cantonment is so ill-constructed or dilapidated as to be, in the opinion of the1[Board], in an insanitary state, the1[Board] may, by notice in writing, require the owner, within such time as may be specified in the notice, to execute such repairs or to make such alterations as it thinks necessary for the purpose of removing such defects. (2) A copy of every notice issued under sub-section (1) shall be conspicuously posted on the building to which it relates. (3) A notice issued under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have been complied with if the owner of the building to which it relates has, instead of executing the repairs or making the alterations directed by the notice, removed the building. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority".
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Succession Act, 1925 Section 140
Title: Bequest of Fund for Certain Purposes, Some of Which Cannot Be Fulfilled
State: Central
Year: 1925
Where a testator does not absolutely bequeath a fund, so as to sever it from his own estate, but gives it for certain purposes, and part of those purposes cannot be fulfilled, the fund, or so much of it as has not been exhausted upon the objects contemplated by the will, remains a part of the estate of the testator. Illustrations (i) A directs that his trustees shall invest a sum of money in a particular way, and shall pay the interest to his son for life, and at his death shall divide the principal among his children. The son dies without having ever had a child. The fund, after the son's death, belongs to the estate of the testator. (ii) A bequeaths the residue of his estate, to be divided equally among his daughters, with a direction that they are to have the interest only during their lives, and that at their decease the fund shall go to their children. The daughters have no children. The fund belongs to the estate of the testator.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 140
Title: Salt Duties, Excise Duties and Export Duties
State: Central
Year: 1935
(1) Duties on salt, Federal duties of excise and export duties shall be levied and collected by the Federation, but, if an Act of the Federal Legislature so provides, there shall be paid out of the revenues of the Federation to the Provinces and to the Federated States, if any, to which the Act imposing the duty extends, sums equivalent to the whole or any part of the net proceeds of that duty, and those sums shall be distributed among the Provinces and those States in accordance with such principles of distribution as may be formulated by the Act. (2) Notwithstanding anything in the preceding sub-section, [one half, or such greater proportion as His Majesty in Council may determine]1, of the net proceeds in eaeh year of any export duty on jute products shall not form part of the revenues of the Federation, but shall be assigned to the Provinces or Federated States in which jute is grown in proportion to the respective amounts of jute grown therein. ________________________ 1. Substituted, by the India and Burma (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act, 1940 by the words 'such proportion as the Governor-General may by order determine'.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBombay Prohibition Act, 1949, (Maharashtra) Section 140
Title: Power Ofstate Government to Prohibit, Regulate or Control Consumption or Use of Intoxicants, Etc. in Public Place
State: Maharashtra
Year: 1949
140. Power of1[State] Government to prohibit, regulate or control consumption or use of intoxicants, etc. in public place The1[State] Government may, by general or special order, prohibit, regulateor control, Subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order, the consumption or use of any intoxican or hemp, in am public place. ____________________ 1. This word was Substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionArmy Act, 1950 Section 140
Title: Presumption as to Signatures
State: Central
Year: 1950
In any proceeding under this Act, any application, certificate, warrant, reply or other document purporting to be signed by an officer in the service of the Government shall, on production, be presumed to have been duly signed by the person by whom and in the character in which it purports to have been signed, until the contrary is shown.
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