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Shahdara (Delhi) Saharanpur Light Railway Co. Ltd. Vs. the Municipal B ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1967SC1747; [1967]3SCR243

..... . the next enactment to be referred to is the indian railway companies act, 1895 (act x of 1895), which provided for the payment, by railway companies, registered under the indian companies act, 1882, of interest out of capital during construction. section 2(1) defines 'railway' as meaning a railway as defined in s. 3, clause (4) of the railways act. section 3 provided for a railway company paying interest on its paid-up share capital, out ..... in that section. there are other consequential provisions, in this act. 15. the indian tramways act, 1902 (act iv of 1902) was one to apply the provisions of the indian railway companies act, 1895, to certain tramway companies. the preamble to this act iv of 1902, stated that it was expedient to apply the provisions of the indian railway companies act, 1895, to companies formed for the construction of tramways 'not differing in structure and .....

G.i.P. Railway Company Vs. A.B. Tamboli

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1926)28BOMLR718

..... make his signature one on behalf of the plaintiff, within the meaning of section 72 of the indian railways act. jamshedji's signature was made by him as an agent who had authority to make such a signature. in aldridge v. the great western railway company (1864) 33 l.j.c.p. 161 where a carrier was employed both by the plaintiff ..... for a particular sale, so as to make the goods ' ascertained ' under section 83 of the indian contract act. here there was a definite appropriation of these bales by the plaintiff to the contract, exhibit 68, and that had been assented to by the railway company. according to the ruling of this court in ram-chandra natha v. g.i.p ..... of law, under section 72 of the indian railways act, does not really arise for decision, but, as the case may go further, i think we should give our opinion. it has been laid down by this court, following brabant & go. v. king [1895] a.c. 632, 640, that the obligation of the railway company towards the consignor of goods includes not .....

Fazal D. Allana Vs. Mangaldas M. Pakvasa

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1921)23BOMLR1144; 66Ind.Cas.726

..... the seller and the share certificates property in the shares does not pass to the purchaser.35. section 28 of the indian companies act enacts that shares shall be transferable in manner provided by the articles of the company. article 33 of the articles of association of the central india mills provides that shares will be transferred by an ..... out of land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth. it is enacted by section 28 of the indian companies act that shares in a company shall be moveable property. share certificates are moveable property and are therefore goods within the meaning of section 108 of (he ..... estopped by the said act of his from asserting any right to the shares. mr,, inverarity for the plaintiff contended that there is no estoppel and has relied on france v. clarka (1884) 26 ch. d. 257. tayler v. great indian peninsula railway co. (1895) 4 g. &. j 559. hutchison v. the colorado united mining company and hamill (1886) .....

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 .....

Kally Dass Mookerjee Vs. the East Indian Railway Company

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1899)ILR26Cal465

..... are concerned. a railway company is not liable for the acts of even its own servants, if those acts are not done in the course and scope of the servants' duty--cobb v. great western railway co. (1894) l.r., app. cas. 419.64. c.a.v.maclean, c.j.,65. this is an appeal by the east indian railway company from a decision of ..... with their duty when they allowed gunpowder to be carried in a compartment where they allowed smoking54. section 47 of the indian railways act, 1890, empowers the company to make rules, and that power is given for the very purpose of meeting cases of this kind; but the defendants have not shown that they took ..... on their part that something dangerous was being carried.40. it was not possible for the company's servants to examine the luggage of every passenger. section 58 of the indian railways act, 1890, provides that every passenger shall, on request, deliver to the railway servants an account in writing containing such a description of the goods he is carrying as may .....

Union of India (Uoi) Vs. Satish Kumar and ors.

Court : Madhya Pradesh

Reported in : 2001ACJ1568; AIR2001MP41

..... . to this extent, the indian statute therefore differs from the english statute. under section 13 of the railways act, 1890 no such duties are imposed directly on the railway administration by the statute. the section on the other hand only confers a power on the central government to issue a requisition to the railway administration i.e. the general managers or the railway companies (if any) to ..... what can be the effect of an omission to exercise this statutory power to issue a requisition, will be dealt with separately under point no. 4). section 13 of the indian railways act may be noticed : '13. fences, screens, gates and bars.--the central government may require that with a time to be specified in the requisition or within such further time as .....

Union of India (Uoi) Vs. United India Insurance Co. Ltd. and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : II(1997)ACC589; 1998ACJ342; JT1997(8)SC653; 1997(2)KLT986(SC); (1998)118PLR248; 1997(6)SCALE497; (1997)8SCC683; [1997]Supp4SCR643; 1997(2)LC827(SC)

..... only confers a power on the central government of issue a requisition to the railway administration, i.e. the general managers or the railway companies (if any) to ..... . v. tara prasad) : air1928cal504 , the direct obligation cast on the railway by section 21 of the act 18 of 1954 was repealed later by act 25 of 1871. to this extent, the indian statute therefore differs from the english statute. under section 13 of the railways act, 1890 no such duties are imposed directly on the railway administration by the statute. the section on the other hand .....

United India Fire and General Insurance Co. Ltd. Vs. Maddali Susheela ...

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : [1983]53CompCas269(AP)

..... aiding in the construction of a new statute if any provision therein is of doubtful import : bank of england v. vagliano brothers [1891] ac 107 robinson v. canadian pacific railway company [1892] ac 481 and mersey docks v. cameron [1865] 11 hlj 443.the purpose of a consolidating statute is to present the whole body of statutory law on a subject ..... of law....'51. in ravulu subba rao v. cit : [1956]30itr163(sc) , justice venkatarama ayyar, speaking for the supreme court observed, referring to the indian i.t. act, 1922 (p. 169 of 30 itr):'the act is, as stated in the preamble, one to consolidate and amend the law relating to income-tax.'52. after referring to the rule of construction to ..... in bank of england v. vagliano brothers [1891] ac 107 the learned judge stated at p. 170 of the report thus:'we must, therefore, construe the provisions of the indian income-tax act as forming a code complete in itself and exhaustive of the matters dealt with therein, and ascertain what their true scope is:the .....

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 .....

State of Kerala Vs. Kerala Water Transport Corporation Ltd. (In Liquid ...

Court : Kerala

Reported in : AIR1967Ker150

..... does enact a comprehensive and self-contained scheme of priorities. were those decisions concerned with construing the words in question in the context of either the english or the indian companies act, i venture to think that they would have given the words the same meaning as was given to them by jessel m. r. and frv j.11. ..... to which it serves as a proviso, namely what debts are to be admitted to proof. and, as i have already remarked, it would be surprising if the companies act, which by section 530 enacts a seemingly self-contained and comprehensive scheme of priority, should seek to attract the entirely inconsistent scheme of priority in section 64 of ..... regard to such debts including the rules of priority. but the narrower meaning would attract only those rules which specify what debts are provable. in the context of the companies act, especially, having regard to the provisions of sections 528 and 530, i have little doubt that the narrower meaning is the true meaning of clause (a) of .....