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The Madras and Southern Maharatta Railway Company, Limited Vs. Mattai ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : 55Ind.Cas.754

..... with the main question. it was contended by the learned vakil for the respondent that a railway company is not competent to limit its liability to less than the minimum care which the indian contract act imposes on bailees. it is now well settled that under the indian law, a railway company has not the liabilities of an insurer but only those of a bailee. see india ..... must be reasonable and just. there is great difference between the english law and the indian law on this subject. if i understand the position aright, a railway company in england would be authorised by parliament to make its own rules and regulations. it would be created by an act of parliament and would have full power to regulate its internal management. under these .....

Northern Pacific Ry. Co. Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... of the railroad and railway companies, or of their respective vendees, other than as the lands fall within or without the reservation. if they were within the boundaries of the reservation, they were lands of the indians; otherwise, public lands of the united states, and passed to the companies, respectively, under the act of congress and the ..... railway company, for certain described lands. the foundation of the bill is that the patents were issued by mistake as public lands granted to the railroad company under the act of congress dated july 2, 1864 (13 stat. 365, c. 217), the lands actually being, it is alleged by the government, part of the yakima indian reservation ..... states v. winans, supra. it is contended that the northern pacific railway company and the individual appellants are bona fide purchasers, and, as such, entitled to protection under the act of march 2, 1896 (29 stat. 42, c. 39). section 1 of that act provides that suits brought by the united states to vacate and annul any .....

Best and Co. Ltd. Vs. the Corporation of Madras

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1924Mad420

..... rs. 3,000 a month or upwards, carrying on business as a company, etc, etc.23. the word 'company' is defined in the act as meaning:a company registered under the indian companies' act, 1883, or under the acts of parliament, known under the collective title of the companies' acts, incorporated by an act of parliament, or of the governor-general in council, or by royal ..... to the merits.43. earl cairns gives the reason for a strict construction of taxing acts in the following terms in pryce v. monmouthshire canal and railway co. (1878) 4 a.c. 197:my lords, the oases which have decided that taxing acts are to be construed with strictness and that no payment is to be exacted from the ..... subject, which is not dearly and unequivocally required by act of parliament to be made, probably meant .....

Superintendent and Legal Remembrancer, State of West Bengal Vs. Corpor ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1967SC997; 1967CriLJ950; [1967]2SCR170

..... case. the court held that as the crown is not, either expressly or by implication, bound by the indian companies' act (x of 1866), and as an order made under that act for the winding up of a company does not work any alteration of property against which execution is sought, such an order does not enable the court ..... civil procedure (old), s. 212 (proviso) of the indian companies act, s. 20 (proviso) of the sea customs act, 1878, s. 1(4)(i) of the indian ports act, s. 3, proviso (1) of the indian stamps act, 1899, and s. 3 of the india act xi of 1881 etc. what is more, act xi of 1881 empowered the governor-general in council by ..... into many trading activities, e.g. to effectuate control of prices, prevent hoarding and distribute commodities in short supply, besides maintenance of departments like posts, telegraphs, railways, telephones etc., activities which may have been regarded as -trading activities in the past. but if initiation and completion of schemes for social welfare of the people .....

Buddhan Singh and anr. Vs. Nabi Bux and anr.

Court : Allahabad

Reported in : AIR1962All43

..... of policy' appeared to bhagwati, j. to be a proper reason for not giving the whole meaning to the general words of section 232(1) of the indian companies act, it would, i think, be far less proper for me to think that the word 'held' is intentionally used in section 9 by the legislature for the ..... quote, profitably, from the opinion of bhagwati, j. in : [1955]2scr374 . while giving to some general words in the amendment to section 232(1) of the, indian companies act a limited meaning, bhagwati, j. observed :'whereas before the amendment the secured creditor stood outside the winding up and could if the mortgage-deed so provided, realise his security ..... ed. 376 at p. 382. frankfurter, j. clearly pointed out that one could not always shut one's eyes to everything else except the naked words of an act. the learned judges warned against the pernicious effects likely to follow over-simplification in interpretations. as frankfurter, j. pointed out 'a statute, like other living organisms, derives .....

Gajadhar Shaw Vs. Union of India (Uoi)

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : AIR1959Cal21

..... i. rly. co. ltd., air 1923 pat 298 (i) where 250 bags of flour were consigned to the north western railway company at lyallpur on 15-10-1920, for delivery at jharia on the east indian railway company's line. the consignment was delivered short by five bags and on 11-2-1922 the plaintiff brought this suit alleging that ..... rombay for transmission to chunar and as the goods did not arrive at chunar, the plaintiff began to make inquiries about them both from the railway concerned and front the east indian railway company, to whose line the goods would in the ordinary course of business have been transferred at a certain function, and for considerably over a year ..... the cause of action arose in november, 1920, when the short delivery was made. a letter dated 7-9-1921 had been received from the acting divisional manager, howrah, informing .....

Secretary of State Vs. Ambdlal Khora and Others

Court : Privy Council

Reported in : AIR1945PC56

..... the respondents' predecessor in title as owner of the khas jheria colliery, which included mines of coal adjacent and subjacent to the branch line of the east indian railway company at and near the station of jheria, desired to have a siding on that line constructed and maintained for the benefit of the colliery. an agreement was ..... title of the respondents, by which the rights of the parties in respect of the working of coal or of compensation for leaving it unworked were adjusted and defined. inasmuch as this agreement specifically refers to the act of 1885 which would itself but for ..... referred to as "the act of 1885. in the long drawn out litigation between the parties a number of questions have been raised which are no longer at issue. the single question now remaining for decision depends on the construction of an agreement made on 11th june 1913, between the east indian railway company and the predecessor in .....

S.S. Chawla and Company Vs. Globe Motors Ltd.(In Liquidation) and Anot ...

Court : Delhi

Reported in : [1987]62CompCas815(Delhi)

..... rule a category for priority in payment which is not included in that section.' 23. section 530 of the companies act, 1956, is similar to section 230 of the indian companies act, 1913. thereforee, the same reasoning will apply to the interpretation of rule 157 of the companies (court) rules, 1959. 24. the supreme court then referred to oak pits colliery co,'s case [1882] 21 ..... ltd. : air1956all586 . 20. that case certainly supports him. it was concerned with the interpretation of rule 97 of the company rules made by the allahabad high court under the indian companies act of 1913. that rule was verbatim the same as rule 157 of the companies (court) rules, 1959, which i have quoted. a division bench of the allahabad high court held, in that case .....

Smt. Tarubala Saha Vs. Nath Bank Ltd. (In Liquidation) and anr.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : [1972]42CompCas588(Cal),76CWN99

..... thereafter, the petitioner filed a suit under order 21, rule 63. the suit was instituted without obtaining leave of court as contemplated by section 171 of the indian companies act, 1913. the first subordinate judge by his aforesaid order has directed the petitioner to obtain the leave by february 27, 1971, and has stayed all proceedings ..... executing court has jurisdiction to decide a claim under order 21, rule 58, of the code, notwithstanding section 45b of the banking companies act and no leave under section 171 of the indian companies act, 1913, is necessary to prefer such a claim. the division bench is of the view that the transfer order carries with it also ..... that the language of section 80, so far as it is relevant for our purpose in this case, bears striking resemblance to that of section 171 of the indian companies act, 1913. and the supreme court, : [1966]1scr988 has quoted the observations of viscount sumner, in the privy council that, bhagchand dagdusa gujrathi v. secretary of .....

Great Indian Peninsula Railway Vs. Devasi Versee

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1907)9BOMLR942

..... consignment-note sanctioned by the governor-general (see p. 272, bayley on the indian railways act) 'the freight on all goods must be paid either previously or at the time of delivery' and it is in the highest degree improbable that a railway company if freight were not paid previously or on delivery would allow anything like so ..... small cause court at poona raised the following preliminary issue. whether the suit was not maintainable for want of notice under sections 77 and 140 of act ix of 1890 (the indian railways act)4. the proper form of this issue would be whether the suit is maintainable in the absence of notice &c.;5. mr. raikes, advocate ..... railway administeredby a railway company, on the agent in india of'the railway company-(a) by delivering the notice or other document to the manageror agent, or(b) by leaving it at his office, or(c) by forwarding it by post in a prepaid letter addressed tothe manager or agent at his office and registered under partiii of the indian post office act .....