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Home Bare Acts Phrase: section 54 Sorted by: old Page 1 of about 221 results (0.002 seconds)Government of India Act, 1833 [Repealed] Section 54
Title: [Repealed]
State: Central
Year: 1833
(Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.)].
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Title: When Order to Commence Hostilities is Sent to India, the Fact to Be Communicated to Parliament
State: Central
Year: 1858
When any Order is sent to India directing the actual Commencement of Hostilities by Her Majesty's Forces in India, the Fact of such Order having been sent shall be communicated to both Houses of Parliament within Three Months after the sending of such Order, if Parliament be sitting, unless such Order shall have been in the meantime revoked or suspended, and if Parliament be not sitting at the end of such Three Months then within One Month after the next Meeting of Parliament.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 54
Title: Commutation of Sentence of Death
State: Central
Year: 1860
In every case in which sentence of death shall have been passed, 1 [the appropriate Government] may, without the consent of the offender, commute the punishment for any other punishment provided by this Code. _____________________ 1. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "the Central Government or the Provinicial Government of the Province within which the offender shall have been sentenced". The words in italics were Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "the Government of India or the Government of the place".
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionDivorce Act, 1869 Section 54
Title: Power to Adjourn
State: Central
Year: 1869
The Court may, from time to time, adjourn the hearing of any petition under this Act, and may require further evidence thereon if it sees fit so to do.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Contract Act, 1872 Section 54
Title: Effect of Default as to That Promise Which Should Be First Performed, in Contract Consisting of Reciprocal Promises
State: Central
Year: 1872
.....A does not provide any cargo for the ship. A cannot claim the performance of B's promise, and must make compensation to B for the loss which B sustains by the non-performance of the contract. (b) A contracts with B to execute certain builder's work for a fixed price, B supplying the scaffolding and timber necessary for the work. B refuses to furnish any scaffolding or timber, and the work cannot be executed. A need not execute the work, and B is bound to make compensation to A for any loss caused to him by the non-performance of the contract. (c) A contracts with B to deliver to him, at a specified price, certain merchandise on board a ship which cannot arrive for a month, and B engages to pay for the merchandise within a week from the date of the contract. B does not pay within the week. A's promise to deliver need not be performed, and B must make compensation. (d) A promises B to sell him one hundred bales of merchandise, to be delivered next day, and B promises A to pay for them within a month. A does not deliver according to his promise. B's promise to pay need not be performed, and A must make compensation.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionChristian Marriage Act1872 Section 54
Title: Registration of Marriages Solemnized Under Part V
State: Central
Year: 1872
After the solemnization of any marriage under this Part, the Marriage Registrar present at such solemnization shall forthwith register the marriage in duplicate; that is to say, in a marriage-register-book, according to the form of the Fourth Schedule hereto annexed, and also in a certificate attached to the marriage-register-book as a counterfoil. The entry of such marriage in both the certificate and the marriage-register-book shall be signed by the person by or before whom the marriage has been solemnized, if there be any such person, and by the Marriage Registrar present at such marriage, whether or not it is solemnized by him, and also by the parties married, and attested by two credible witnesses other than the Marriage Registrar and person solemnizing the marriage. Every such entry shall be made in order from the beginning to the end of the book, and the number of the certificate shall correspond with that of the entry in the marriage-register-book.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Evidence Act 1872 Section 54
Title: Previous Bad Character Not Relevant, Except in Reply
State: Central
Year: 1872
1 [54. Previous bad character not relevant, except in reply In criminal proceedings the fact that the accused person has a bad character is irrelevant, unless evidence has been given that he has a good character, in which case it becomes relevant. Explanation 1.-This section does not apply to cases in which the bad character of any person is itself a fact in issue. Explanation 2.-A previous conviction is relevant as evidence of bad character.] _____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1891, section 6, for section 54.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNorthern India Canal and Drainage Act, I873 Section 54
Title: Procedure in Respect of Vessels Abandoned and Goods Unclaimed
State: Central
Year: 1873
.....contents, cargo or goods be not so claimed, he may, at any time after the day named in the notice, proceed to sell the same. The said vessel and its contents, and the said cargo or goods if unsold, or, if a sale has taken place, the proceeds of the sale, after paying all tolls, charges and expenses incurred by the Divisional Canal officer on account of the taking possession and sale, shall be made over to the owner of the same, when his ownership is established to the satisfaction of the Divisional Canal-officer.(Disposal of proceeds of sale.) If the Divisional Canal-officer is doubtful to whom such property or proceeds should be made over, he may direct the property to be sold as aforesaid, and the proceeds to be paid into the district treasury, there to be held until the right thereto be decided by a Court of competent jurisdiction.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBombay Hereditary Offices Act, 1874, (Maharashtra) Section 54
Title: Term of Appointment of Deputy
State: Maharashtra
Year: 1874
1[When the Collector appoints a deputy, it shall be for a term not exceeding five years. When a watandar entitled to officiate appoints a deputy, it shall be for a term not less than five years or for life. The term of appointment of a deputy shall cease and determine on the right of his principal ceasing, or on the death of his principal, and any appointment of a deputy on behalf of a representative watandar under the age of eighteen years shall terminate on the attainment by such representative watandar of that age. _______________ 1. As to local repeal of sections 51 to 55, see Bom. 6 of 1887.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBombay Abkari Act, 1878, (Maharashtra) Section 54
Title: Things Liable to Confiscation
State: Maharashtra
Year: 1878
1[Whenever an offence under this Act has been committed - (a) any excisable article, hemp, mhowra flowers, materials, still, utensil, implement or apparatus in respect of which the offence has been committed; (b) any excisable article, hemp, or mhowra flowers, lawfully imported, transported, manufactured, had in possession or sold along with, or in addition to, any article liable to confiscation under clause (a); (c) the receptacles, packages and coverings in which any article liable to confiscation under clause (a) or clause (b) is found and the other contents of such receptacles, packages and coverings and the animals, carts, vessels or other conveyance used in carrying any such article, shall be liable to confiscation.] ______________ 1. Section 54 was substituted for the original sections 54 and 55 by Bom. Act XIII of 1912, section 37.
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