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Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 137

Title: Creditors Forbearance to Sue Does Not Discharge Surety

State: Central

Year: 1872

Mere forbearance on the part of the creditor to sue the principal debtor or to enforce any other remedy against him, does not, in the absence of any provision in the guarantee to the contrary, discharge the surety. Illustration B owes to C a debt guaranteed by A. The debt becomes payable. C does not sue B for a year after the debt has become payable. A is not discharged from his suretyship.

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Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 168

Title: Right of Finder of Goods, May Sue for Specific Reward Offered

State: Central

Year: 1872

The finder of goods has no right to sue the owner for compensation for trouble and expense voluntarily incurred by him to preserve the goods and to find out the owner; but he may retain the goods against the owner until he receives such compensation; and, where the owner has offered a specific reward for the return of goods lost, the finder may sue for such reward, and may retain the goods until he receives it.

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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Section 83

Title: When Aliens May Sue

State: Central

Year: 1908

Alien enemies residing in India with the permission of the Central Government, and alien friends, may sue in any Court otherwise competent to try the suit, as if they were citizens of India, but alien enemies residing in India without such permission, or residing in a foreign country, shall not sue in any such Court. Explanation.--Every person residing in a foreign country, the Government of which is at war with India and carrying on business in that country without a licence in that behalf granted by the Central Government, shall, for the purpose of this section, be deemed to be an alien enemy residing in a foreign country.

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CONVERTS' MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION ACT, 1866 Section 4

Title: When convert deserted by his wife may sue for conjugal society

State: Central

Year: 1866

If a {'The word "Native" omitted by the A.O.1950.} husband change his religion for Christianity, and if in consequence of such change his {'The word "Native" omitted by the A.O.1950.} wife, for the space of six continuous months, desert or repudiate him, he may sue her for conjugal society.

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CONVERTS' MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION ACT, 1866 Section 5

Title: When convert deserted by her husband may sue

State: Central

Year: 1866

If a {The word "Native" omitted by the A.O.1950.} wife change her religion for Christianity, and if in consequence of such change her {The word "Native" omitted by the A.O.1950.} husband, for the space of six continuous months, desert or repudiate her, she may sue him for conjugal society.

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Government of India Act, 1858 [Repealed] Section 65

Title: Secretary of State in Council May Sue and Be Sued

State: Central

Year: 1858

The Secretary of State in Council shall and may sue and be sued as well in India as in England by the Name of the Secretary of State in Council as a Body corporate; and all Persons and Bodies Politic shall and may have and take the same suits, Remedies, and Proceedings, legal and equitable, against the Secretary of State in Council of India as they could have clone against the said Company; and the Property and effects hereby vested in Her Majesty for the purposes, of the Government of India acquired for the said purposes shall be subject and liable to the same judgments and Executions as they would while vested in the said Company have been liable to in respect of Debts and inabilities lawfully contracted and incurred by the said Company.

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Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963) Section 13

Title: Exclusion of Time in Cases Where Leave to Sue or Appeal as a Pauper is Applied for

State: Central

Year: 1963

In computing the period of limitation prescribed for any suit or appeal in any case where an application for leave to sue or appeal as a pauper has been made and rejected, the time during which the applicant has been prosecuting in good faith his application for such leave shall be excluded, and the court may, on payment of the court fees prescribed for such suit or appeal, treat the suit or appeal as having the same force and effect as if the court fees had been paid in the first instance.

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Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 135

Title: Discharge of Surety when Creditor Compounds With, Gives Time To, or Agrees Not to Sue, Principal Debtor

State: Central

Year: 1872

A contract between the creditor and the principal debtor, by which the creditor makes a composition with, or promises to give time to, or not to sue, the principal debtor, discharges the surety, unless the surety assents to such contract.

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Religious Endowments Act, 1863 Section 14

Title: Persons Interested May Singly Sue in Case of Breach of Trust, Etc.

State: Central

Year: 1863

Any person or persons interested in any mosque, temple or religious establishment, or in the performance of the worship or of the service thereof, or the trusts relating thereto, may, without joining as plaintiff any of the other persons interested therein, sue before the Civil Court the trustee, manager or superintendent of such mosque, temple or religious establishment or the member of any committee appointed under this Act, for any misfeasance, breach of trust or neglect of duty, committed by such trustee, manager, superintendent or member of such committee, in respect of the trusts vested in, or confided to, them respectively; Powers of Civil Court.and the Civil Court may direct the specific performance of any act by such trustee, manager, superintendent or member of a committee, and may decree damages and costs against such trustee, manager, superintendent or member of a committee, and may also direct the removal of such trustee, manager, superintendent or member of a committee.

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Religious Endowments Act, 1863 Section 15

Title: Nature of Interest Entitling Person to Sue

State: Central

Year: 1863

The interest required in order to entitle a person to sue under the last preceding section need not be a pecuniary, or a direct or immediate, interest or such an interest as would entitle the person suing to take any part in the management or superintendence of the trusts. Any person having a right of attendance, or having been in the habit of attending, at the performance of the worship or service of any mosque, temple or religious establishment, or of partaking in the benefit of any distribution of alms, shall be deemed to be a person interested wilhin the meaning of the last preceding section.

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