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The Punjab Custom (Power to Contest) Act, 1920 Complete Act

State: Haryana

Year: 1920

.....disposition of property." "Appointment of an heir" includes any adoption made or purporting to be made according to custom. 3. Scope of Act. This Act shall apply only in respect of alienations of immovable property or appointments of heirs made by persons who in regard to such alienations or appointments are governed by custom. 4. Savings. This Act shall not affect any right to contest any alienation or appointment of an heir made before the date on which this Act comes into force. 5. Rights of females. Nothing in this Act shall apply to any alienation or appointment of an heir by a female. 6. Limitation on the right to contest alienations and appointments of heirs. Subject to the provisions contained in section 4 and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in section 5, (See Haryana Code, Volume 1) Punjab Laws Act, 1S72, no person shall contest any alienation of ancestral immoveable property or any appointment of an heir to such property on the ground that such alienation or appointment is contrary to custom, unless such person is descended in male lineal descent from the great-great-grandfather of the persons making the alienation or.....

Representation of the People Act, 1951 Section 53

Title: Procedure in Contested and Uncontested Elections

State: Central

Year: 1951

.....already been called upon under this sub-section, has or have failed to elect a person or the requisite number of persons, as the case may be, to fill the vacancy or vacancies, the2[Election Commission] shall not be bound to call again upon the consituency, or such members to elect a person or persons5[until it is satisfied that if called upon again, there will be no such failure on the part of the constituency of such members]. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 27 1956, Section 30, for sub-section (1) 2. Substituted by Act 27 of 1956, Section 30, for "appropriate authority". 3. Certain words omitted by Act 49 of 1951, Section 44 and the Fifth Schedule. 4. Certain words omitted by Act 27 of 1956, Section 30. 5. Substituted by Act 27 of 1956, Section 30, for "until such date as the Election Commission may specify in this behalf.

Representation of the People Act, 1951 Section 50

Title: Attendance of a Contesting Candidate or His Election Agent at Polling Stations, and Performance by Him of the Functions of a Polling Agent or Counting Agent

State: Central

Year: 1951

(1) At every election where a poll is taken, each1[contesting candidate] at such election and his election agent shall have a right to be present at any polling station provided under section 25 for the taking of the poll or at the place fixed under sub-section (1) of section 29 for the poll. (2) A1[contesting candidate] or his election agent may himself do any act or thing which any polling agent or the counting agent of such1[contesting candidate] if appointed, would have been authorised by or under this Act to do, or may assist any polling agent or the counting agent of such1[contesting candidate] in doing any such act or thing. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 58 of 1958, Section 20, for "candidate".

Representation of the People Act, 1951 Section 38

Title: Publication of List of Contesting Candidates

State: Central

Year: 1951

.....(1), the candidates shall be classified as follows, namely:-- (i) candidates of recognised political parties; (ii) candidates of registered political parties other than those mentioned in clause (i); (iii) other candidates. (3) The categories mentioned in sub-section (2) shall be arranged in the order specified therein and the names of candidates in each category shall be arranged in alphabetical order and the addresses of the contesting candidates as given in the nomination papers together with such other particulars as may be prescribed].] ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 27 of 1956, Section 21, for section 38. 2. Substituted by Act 21 of 1966, Section 8, for sub-section (2) w.e.f. 1-8-1996.

Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 Section 38

Title: New Trial of Contested Cases

State: Central

Year: 1882

Where a suit has been contested, the Small Cause Court may, on the application of either party, made within eight days from the date of the decree or order in the suit (not being a decree passed under section 522 of the {See now the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act 5 of 1908), Schedule II, section 16} Code of Civil Procedure (14 of 1882)), order a new trial to be held, or alter, set aside or reverse the decree or order, upon such terms as it thinks reasonable, and may, in the meantime, stay the proceedings. Explanation.Every suit shall be deemed to be contested in which the decree is made otherwise than by consent of or in default of appearance by the defendant.

Central Provinces Court of Wards Act, 1899 Section 11

Title: Barring of Suits to Contest Authority to Assume Superintendence

State: Central

Year: 1899

No suit shall be brought in any Civil Court to contest the authority of the Court of Wards in respect of the property, or of the person and property, of any person under this Act on the ground that such person was not, or is not, a land-holder or a minor.

Representation of the People Act, 1951 Section 55A

Title: Retirement from Contest at Elections in Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies [Repealed]

State: Central

Year: 1951

1[55A. Retirement from contest at elections in Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies.- [Rep. by the Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 1958 (58 of 1958), Section 22]. ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 27 of 1956, Section 34, for "appropriate authority".

Waste Lands (Claims) Act, 1863 Section 3

Title: Postponement of Sale Pending Enquiry, to Allow Claimant to Contest Rejection of Claim

State: Central

Year: 1863

Pending an enquiry into any claim or objection under the date last preceding section, the Collector or other officer as aforesaid shall postpone the sale or other disposition of the land; and, if he shall order that such claim or objection be rejected, he of shall further postpone the sale or other disposition of the land, to allow the claimant or objector to contest the order of rejection in the manner hereinafter provided.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 6

Title: Of the Construction of Wills

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....of determining questions as to what person or what property is denoted by any words used in a Will, a Court shall inquire into every material fact relating to the persons who claim to be interested under such Will, the property which is claimed as the subject of disposition, the circumstances of the testator and of his family, and into every fact a knowledge of which may conduct to the right application of the words which the testator has used. Illustrations (i) A, by his Will, bequeaths 1,000 rupees to his eldest son or to his youngest grand-child, or to his cousin, Mary; a Court may make inquiry in order to ascertain to what person the description in the Will applies. (ii) A, by his Will, leaves to B "my estate called Black Acre." It may be necessary to take evidence in order to ascertain what is the subject-matter of the bequest; that is to say, what estate of the testator's is called Black Acre. (iii) A, by his Will, leaves to B "the estate which I purchased of C". It may be necessary to take evidence in order to ascertain what estate the testator purchased of C. Section 76 - Misnomer or misdescription of object (1) Where the words used in a Will to.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 4

Title: Of Privileged Wills

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....on amilitary expedition, but not being at sea, is considered as a soldier, and canmake a privileged Will. ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 10of 1927, section 2 and Schedule I. Section 65 - Privileged Wills Any soldier being employed in anexpedition or engaged in actual warfare, 1 [or an airman so employed or engaged,] or any mariner being at sea,may, if he has completed the age of eighteen years, dispose of his property by a Will made in the manner provided in section66. Such Wills are calledprivileged Wills. Illustrations (i) A, a medical officer attached to a regiment is actually employedin an expedition. He is a soldier actually employed in an expedition, and canmake a privileged Will. (ii) A is at sea in a merchant-ship of which he is the purser. He is a mariner,and, being at sea, can make a privileged Will. (iii) A, a soldier service in thefield against insurgents, is a soldier engaged in actual warfare, and as suchcan make a privileged Will. (iv) A, a mariner of a ship, in the course of a voyage, is temporarily on shore while she islying in harbour. He is, for the purposes of this section, a mariner at sea,and can make a privileged Will. (v) A,.....