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The Tamil Nadu Civil Courts Act (Iii of 1874) Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1874

..... This proviso was added by Section 2 of the Madras Civil Courts (Amendment) Act, 1945, (Madras Act XXII of 1945) This was permanently re-enacted by Madras Act VII of 1948. [ Provided further that when the District court or the Subordinate judge's court to which appeals lie is adjourned under section 30, the High Court, shall have power to receive such appeals.] 14. Repealed by Madras Act XIV of 1955 15. Power to require witness or party to make oath or affirmation " Every court under this Act may require a witness or party to any suit or other proceeding, pending in such court to make such oath or affirmation as is prescribed by the law for the time being in force. The Muslim Personal law (Sharit) Application Act, 1937) " See Section 6 of the Act, 16. Law administered by Courts to natives - Where, in any suit or proceeding , it is necessary for any Court under this Act to decide any question regarding succession, inheritance, marriage, or caste, or any religious usage or institution. (a) the Muhammadan law in cases where the parties are Muhammadans and the Hindu law in cases where the parties are Hindu law, or (b) any custom (if such there by ) having.....

Bombay Hereditary Offices Act, 1874 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1874

.....No. XI of 1852, or Bombay Acts Nos. II and VII of 1863, or any other law at present in force with respect thereto. SECTION 02: REPEAL OF ENACTMENTS. Rep. Act XII of 1876. SECTION 03: APPLICATION OF PARTS VI VII VIII and IX Parts VI, VII, VIII and IX5* * * shall not apply to hereditaly offices of lower degree than Patel or Kulkarni, not to watans appertaining to such offices. SECTION 04: INTERPRETATION CLAUSE In this Act, unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context " "Watan Property" means the moveable or immovable property held, acquired, or assigned for providing remuneration for the performance of the duty appertaining to an hereditary office. It includes a right to levy customary fees or perquisites, in money or in kind, whether at fixed times or otherwise. It includes cash payments in addition to the original watan property made voluntarily by2[the3[State Government] and subject periodically to modification or withdrawal. "Hereditary Office" means every office held hereditarily for the performance of duties connected with the administration or collection of the public revenue or with the village police, or with the settlement of boundaries, or.....

The Scheduled Districts Act, 1874 Complete Act

State: Jharkhand

Year: 1874

THE SCHEDULED DISTRICTS ACT, 1874 THE SCHEDULED DISTRICTS ACT, 1874 [ACT No. 14 of 1874] [8th December 1874] PREAMBLE An Act to ascertain the enactments in force in various parts of British India, and for other purposes. WHEREAS various parts of British India have never been brought within, or have from time to time been removed from, the operation of the general Acts and Regulations and the jurisdiction of the ordinary Courts of Judicature; And whereas doubts have arisen in some cases as to which Acts or Regulations are in force in such parts, and in other cases as to what are the boundaries of such parts; And whereas among such parts are the territories specified in the first schedule hereto annexed, and it is expedient to provide readier means than now exist for ascertaining the enactments in force in such territories and the boundaries thereof, and for administering the law therein; And whereas it is expedient to declare that certain Acts are in force in a tract of land lying between the Railway Station at Satnand the eastern boundary of the Jabalpur Division;- It is hereby enacted as follows:- Section 1 - Short title This Act may be called.....

Indian Councils Act, 1874 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1874

.....with reference to ordinary members of the Council of the Governor General of India shall apply to the person so appointed by Her Majesty under this Act.1* * * SECTION 02: NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF COUNCIL MAY. BE SUBSEQUENTLY DIMINISHED -Whenever a member of Council 2* * * shall have been appointed under the section 1-of this Act, it shall be lawful of Her Majesty,, if she shall see fit, to diminish, from time to time, the number of the ordinary members of the Council of the Governor General of India to five, by abstaining so long as she shall deem proper from filling up any vacancy or vacancies occurring in the offices of. the ordinary members of the said Council appointed under section 3 of "The Indian Councils Act, 1861,"and under section 8of the Act of the thirty-second and thirty-third years of Her present Majesty, chapter ninety-seven, not being a vacancy in the office of the ordinary member of-Council required by law to be a barrister or a member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland: and whenever the Secretary of State for India shall have informed the Governor General of India that it is not the intention of Her Majesty to fill up any vacancy, no temporary appointment.....

MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Chapter I

Title: PRELIMINARY

State: Central

Year: 1874

This Act may be called the Married Women's Property Act, 1874. Section 2 - Extent and application 1 [It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.] But nothing herein contained applies to any married woman who at the time of her marriage professed the Hindu, Muhammedan, Buddhist, Sikh or Jain religion, or whose husband, at the time of such marriage, professed any of those religions. And the 2[State Government] may from time to time, by order, either retrospectively from the passing of this Act or prospectively, exempt from the operation of all or any of the provisions of this Act the members of any race, sect or tribe or part of a race, sect or tribe, to whom it may consider it impossible or inexpedient to apply such provisions. The 2[State Government] may also revoke any such order, but not so that the revocation shall have any retrospective effect. All orders and revocations under this section shall be published in the Official Gazette. 3[* * * *] _______________________ 1. Substituted by the Married Women's Property (Extension) Act, 1959 (61 of 1959), Sec. 2 (w.e.f. 1st March, 1960). 2. The original words "G.G. in C" have.....

MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Section 2

Title: Extent and application

State: Central

Year: 1874

.....to time, by order, either retrospectively from the passing of this Act or prospectively, exempt from the operation of all or any of the provisions of this Act the members of any race, sect or tribe or part of a race, sect or tribe, to whom it may consider it impossible or inexpedient to apply such provisions. The 2[State Government] may also revoke any such order, but not so that the revocation shall have any retrospective effect. All orders and revocations under this section shall be published in the Official Gazette. 3[* * * *] _______________________ 1. Substituted by the Married Women's Property (Extension) Act, 1959 (61 of 1959), Sec. 2 (w.e.f. 1st March, 1960). 2. The original words "G.G. in C" have successively been amended by Act 38 of 1920 the A.O.1937, and the A.O. 1950 to read as above. 3. The last paragraph rep. by Act 39 of 1925, Sec. 392 and Sch. IX.

Bombay Hereditary Offices Act, 1874, (Maharashtra) Section 84

Title: Grant of Powers to Special Officer

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1874

.....the power to fine hereditary village officers in sums not exceeding two rupees. 5[Powers and duties conferred under this section shall be exercised or performed subject to such conditions, if any, in addition to those specified in this Act, as the 1[2[State] Government] shall from time to time think fit to prescribe, and any order conferring powers and duties under this section may at any time be cancelled by the 1[2[State] Government].] _______________ 1. The words "Provincial Government" were substituted for the words "Governor in Council" by the Adaptation of Indian Laws Order in Council. 2. This word was substituted for the word " Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950. 3. These words were inserted by section 15(1) of the Bombay Hereditary Offices (Amendment) Act, 1886 (Bom. 5 of 1886). 4. These words were inserted by Bom. 8 of 1958, section 3, Schedule. 5. This paragraph was added by section 15(2) of the Bombay Hereditary Offices (Amendment) Act, 1886 (Bom. 5 of 1886).

MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1874

.....married before 1st January 1866; secondly to declare that a married woman may sue in her own name for any property which by force of the Succession Act, or the proposed Act, is her separate property; thirdly, to relieve the husband of a wife married after the 31st December 1865, from her ante-nuptial debts; and, lastly, to declare that any person entering into a contract with a wife (otherwise than as her husband's agent), shall be entitled to sue her, and, to the extent of her separate property, to recover against her whatever he might have recovered had she been unmarried. Clause 4 (as to a wife's wages and earnings) is equivalent to the Married Women's Property Act (33 and 34 Vic., Chap. 93) section one. Clause 6 is copied from the first paragraph of section ten of that Act. It declares that any married woman may effect a policy of insurance on her own life or on her husband's life, on her own behalf, and that the amount assured shall be her separate property. As the law stands, if a wife effects such a policy (otherwise than out of her separate estate), and dies in her husband's lifetime, the husband, in the capacity of her administrator, becomes the absolute owner of the.....

Civil Jails Act, 1874 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1874

.....excluding Greater Bombay and the enforcement of discipline therein PARTS 1 and PART 2 Preliminary Classes of Jails 1. to 7. :- [Rep. [Central Acts.] Act IX of 1894.] PART 3 Civil Jails [Section 8 was inserted by BOm. 23 of 1959, s. 4(2).] [8. Application:- This Act shall apply to Civil Jails in the State of Bombay outside Greater Bombay.] 9. Civil Jail to be at seat of each District Court, and may be at other places :- There shall be a Civil Jail at the seat of the District Court for each district created under section 3 of Act XIV of 1869 [The Bombay Civil Courts Act, 1869.] [or any corresponding law for the time being in force in any part of the State] : Provided that it shall be in the power of the [The words "Provincial Government" were substituted for the words "Governor in Council" by the Adaptation of Indian Laws Order in Council.] [[This word was substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950.] [State] Government] to establish civil jails at other convenient places. 10. Nazir of District Court to be keeper of Civil Jail and to have establishment under him :- The nazir of the District Court [These words were inserted by Bom......

Foreign Recruiting Act, 1874 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1874

.....that is to say, taking the word in its ordinary acceptation, to persons emigrating with a view to obtaining employment in husbandly or manufactures. The object of the present Bill is to confer on the Governor-General in Council the power of control which thus appears to be wanting, and which at the same time it is manifestly desirable he should possess".- --- Gazette of India, 1874, Part V, page 1. An Act to control recruiting in '[India] for the service of Foreign States. Preamble.- WHEREAS it is expedient that the 2[Central Government] should exercise lull control over recruiting in1[India] for the service of Foreign States: It is hereby enacted as follows:- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE - This Act may he called the Foreign Recruiting Act 1874. Local extent.- It extends lo the whole of India3[* * * ]4[* * * * *] SECTION 02: "FOREIGN STATE" DEFINED --- In this Act--- "Foreign State" includes any persons or person exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any country, colony, province or people, beyond the limits of5[India] . SECTION 03: POWER TO PROHIBIT OR PERMIT RECRUITING --- If any person is, within the limits of6[India], obtaining or.....