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Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Section 27

Title: Interpretation

State: Central

Year: 1857

The following words and expressions used in this Act shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction (that is to say) :--- Words importing the singular number only shall include the plural number and words importing the plural number only shall include also the singular number. Words importing the masculine gender shall include females. The word "person" shall include a corporation, whether aggregate or sole. The word "street" shall include any square, court, or alley, highway, lane, road, thoroughfare, or public passage or place. The word "Magistrate" shall include any Magistrate of Police, and any joint Magistrate or other person lawfully exercising the powers of Magistrate, acting at or for the place or district where the matter requiring the cognizance of any such Magistrate arises.

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Chapter 2

Title: General Explanations

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....Justice 6 [(including a liquidator, receiver or commissioner)] 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 specially authorized by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties; Fifth.-- Every juryman, assessor, or member of a panchayat assisting a Court of Justice or public servant; Sixth.-- Every arbitrator or other person to whom any cause or matter has been referred for decision or report by any Court of Justice, or by any other competent public authority; Seventh.-- Every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement; Eighth.-- Every officer of 7 [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; Ninth.-- Every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 9

Title: Number

State: Central

Year: 1860

Unless the contrary appears from the context, words importing the singular number include the plural number, and words importing the plural number include the singular number.

Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904, (Maharashtra) Section 13

Title: Gender and Number

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1904

In all Bombay Acts 1[or Maharashtra Acts], unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, - (a) words importing the masculine gender shall be taken to include females; and (b) words in the singular shall include the plural, and vice versa. NOTES Expression "property" whether includes properties.-Section 13 of the Bombay General Clauses Act provides that unless there is any thing repugnant, the words in singular shall include the plural, and vice versa.-Rqjendra Singh Airen v. Mahendra Singh Airen, 2005 (Supp.) Bom. C.R. 860. _________________________ 1. See now the Indian Limitation Act, 1908 (9 of 1908), Central Act.

BOMBAY HINDU HEIRS' RELIEF ACT, 1866, (Maharashtra) Section 7

Title: Interpretation

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1866

The term "debts," as used in this Act, shall be construed to include all liabilities arising out of any claims which could or might be enforced against a deceased Hindu himself if living, and for which a suit would lie against his representative. 1* * * _________________ 1 The rest of section7 which was as follows:-"and unless there be something in the context or subject refulgent to such construction, words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number shall be include the singular number and words importing masculine gender shall include females" was repealed by the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1886 (Bom. 3 of 1898).

Oriental Gas Company 1857 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1857

.....for that purpose by Government in the vicinity of the Town of Calcutta, and is engaged in the preparation of apparatus and materials for the manufacture and supply of Gas for lighting the said Town; and whereas it is expedient that powers and facilities should be given to the said Company to enable them to carry out their undertaking of lighting with Gas the said Town of Calcutta, which powers and facilities may hereafter be extended to the operations of the said Company in other towns and places; It is enacted as follows:- SECTION 01: POWER TO BREAK UP STREETS, ETC., UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE, AND TO OPEN DRAINS In the Town of Calcutta and its environs, and in any other town or place to which the provisions of this Act may hereafter be extended, by a law to be passed for that purpose, the Oriental Gas Company, Limited, under such superintendence as is hereinafter specified may open and break up the soil and pavement of the several streets and bridges, and may open and break up any sewers, drains, or tunnels within or under such streets and bridges, and lay down and place within the same limits pipes, conduits, service-pipes, and other works, and from time to time repair,.....

The Indian Penal Code 1860 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....Court of Justice (including a liquidator, receiver or Commissioner) whose duty 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 a administrator any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order in the Court, and every person specially authorized by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties; Fifth--Every juryman, assessor, or member of a Panchayat assisting a Court of Justice or public servant; Sixth--Every arbitrator or other person to whom any cause or matter has been referred for decision or report by any Court of Justice, or by any other competent public authority; Seventh--Every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement; Eighth--Every officer of the Government, whose duty it is, as such officer, to prevent offences, to give information of offences, to being offenders to justice, or to protect the public health, safety or convenience; Ninth--Every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any property on behalf of.....

The Madras General Clauses Act, 1891 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1891

.....Act. 1867, the provisions of that Act shall not apply to this Act or to any (Madras Act) which may be passed subsequent to the commencement of this Act. Section 3 - Definitions In this Act and in every (Madras Act made) after the commencement of this Act, unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context.- (1) "Abet".- "abet" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall have the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code. (2) "barrister"- "barrister" shall mean a barrister of England or Ireland or a member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland. (3) (Substituted by the Government of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937.) [x x x] (4) "Chapter", "part", "section" and "schedule".- "Chapter", "part", "section" and "schedule" shall mean respectively a Chapter part and section of, and schedule to, the Act in which the word occurs; (5) "City of Madras".- "City of Madras" shall mean such local area as is declared from time to time to be the City of Madras under any Act for the time being in force relating to the municipal affairs of such city; (6) "Collector".- "Collector" shall include every officer, who, for the time being, is.....

The Bombay Hindu Heirs Relief Act, 1866 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1866

.....of any claims which could or might be enforced against a deceased Hindu himself if living, and for which a suit would lie against his representative. (The rest of section 7 which was as follows :- "and unless there be something in the context or subject repugnant to such construction, words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number shall include the singular number and words importing the masculine gender shall include females" was repealed by the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1886 (Bom. 3 of 1886).) [*****] 8. [Commencement of Act] Rep. Act XII of 1873. 9. Short title:- This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Bombay Hindu Heirs' Relief Act, 1866. Maharashtra State Acts

The Tamil Nadu Cattledisease Act, 1866 Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1866

.....of Madras] (These words were substituted for the words "the President the Municipal Commission" by S. 3 of the Madras Cattle-disease (Amendment) Act, 1921 (Madras Act III of 1921) [the Commissioner of the Corporation] shall determine, and keepers shall be appointed to such pounds by the said Magistrate (These words were added by section 3 (1) of, and the Second Schedule to, the Tamil Nadu Repealing and Amending Act, 1951 (Tamil Nadu Act XIV of 1951)) [or Commissioner, as the case may be.] The village or villages by which every hospital-pound is to be used shall be determined and notified by the Magistrate. 4. Notice by owner of cattle attacked by disease. Whenever, in any district or part of a district to which this Act has been extended as above provided, toy animal is attacked by any contagious or infectious disease, it shall be the duty of the owner, or of the person in charge thereof, to give immediate notice to the keeper of the hospital-pound provided for the village or township in which the animal may at the time be. 5. Examination by pound keeper. On receiving notice as aforesaid, the keeper of the hospital-pound shall, as soon as possible, examine the.....