Court : Chennai
Reported in : 37Ind.Cas.525
..... referring to the well-known fact that in india we live hemmed in on all sides by repressive measures. the press act, the seditious meetings act, the official secrets act, the defence of india act, not to mention several despotic measures of early days---potential of mischief and capable of retarding democratic progress---are all ..... beyond the limits of fair comment.43. extract no. 2 is also a letter from a correspondent. it not only describes the enforcement of the press act against new india' as 'inhuman action and barbarous atrocity,' but it leaves the readers under the impression that the much-hated and ever-mischievous bureaucracy' ..... press act as regards definitions of terms. it is sufficient to quote the following sub-sections.66. (21) 'government' or 'the government' shall include the local government as well as the government of india.67. (22) government of india' shall mean the governor-general-in-council or, daring the absence of the governor-general-in-council from his council .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Allahabad
Reported in : AIR1932All492
..... that in the case i before us we are bound by the decision in re wallace (l), and therefore cannot pass an order against him under the bar councils act on this charge. (his lordship then considered the second charge and concluded). it is clear to us on the merits therefore that this charge cannot be held ..... dube on 26th november 1929 against mr. b., an advocate enrolled in this court, this court under the bar council act, section 10, referred the matter to the bar council for inquiry and report. in due course the bar council nominated a tribunal for the above purpose. several charges had been formulated against the advocate. three charges were withdrawn ..... by per. mission of the tribunal and they also found as regards those charges that they were not proved. the charges which were pressed against the advocate were : (1) .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : AIR1943Mad733; (1943)2MLJ307
..... house tax which is mentioned in the notification the appellant railway company cannot rely upon absence of a fresh notification after the new act came into force. this contention is unsound according to the view expressed in municipal council, cuddappah. v. m. & s.m. railway co., ltd. : air1929mad746 as stated in the leading judgment in that case, taxing ..... of the second half year of 1937-38, the total amount of the claim being rs. 1,575. the objection raised on behalf of the appellant company was pressed in both the courts below which have overruled it holding that since the mandapam panchayat board so far as appellant's properties are concerned is the same local authority ..... attention of the court to the written statement filed in the trial court in paragraph 4 of which this contention was raised and states that it was pressed in the lower courts also.8. the following points of difference between the nature, incidence and the method of levy of house tax under the madras local boards .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Kolkata
Reported in : AIR1915Cal770,30Ind.Cas.746
..... sic) to be forfeited to his majesty and this (sic) was served on the person concerned, (sic) the keeper of the printing press, on (sic) 3rd of november 1914. the government (sic) general in council in so acting was exercising a power conferred under the delhi laws (sic) of 1912, so that for the purposes of this application we must treat ..... to this application. it appears, though the petition is not in order on this point, that on council in pursuance of section 4(1) of the press act, 1910, declared the security of rs. 2,000 deposited in respect of 'the comrade and the hamdard press, kucha-i-(sic) delhi' and all copies of the issue of the (sic) paper called ..... the order as though made by a local government under (sic) indian press act. the complaint of (sic) petitioner is that 'he as a .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Mumbai
Reported in : AIR1927Bom157; (1927)29BOMLR269; 101Ind.Cas.155
..... it is reported in the authorised series of the indian law reports, might not be binding under the provisions of the indian law reports act of 1875. this is a decision of the privy council which binds all the courts in india, at any rate as soon as that decision is promulgated and comes to the knowledge of a ..... and on the recitals in the document to the same effect. the case falls entirely under the privy council decision, the plaintiff also not having made any default and pressing for specific performance. it may be that in some future case the privy council may reconsider that decision, or it may bo that the legislature may intervene and pass an ..... act validating documents that have not been registered on account of the previous view of the law that such documents .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : AIR1938Mad847; (1938)2MLJ456
..... same encroachment. this view was overruled by devadoss and waller, jj., in ramachandra chetti v. chairman, municipal council, salem. : air1926mad763 , where the learned judges (dealing with the precisely similar provisions of the district municipalities act) pointed out that the offence under section 207(1) 'consists in the failure to obey a requisition ..... by devadoss and waller, jj., who expressly reserved it, saying:if a prosecution had been instituted on the first requisition and had failed or not been pressed, other considerations might come in, but the question does not arise here.6. with great respect to pandrang row, j., we think that the ..... j., that the real offence in such cases is the encroachment (ramanujachariar v. kailasam aiyar : air1925mad1067 was expressly dissented from in ramachandra chetti v. chairman, municipal council, salem : air1926mad763 and we are of opinion that the reasoning in the latter case is against the view of pandrang row, j., in rangachariar v. venkatasami .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : AIR1929Mad146
..... municipal council, namely, that by reason of section 262 (2), district municipalities act of 1884, which was a similar section to section 354 (2) of the ..... a company not liable to the tax had been taxed and the provisions of the act had therefore not in substance and in effect been complied with and that the municipality was not protected from action. in municipal council of mangalore v. codial bail press [1904] 27 mad. 547 in which the same objection was taken by the ..... present act, the suit was not maintainable by reason of that section, it was held .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : 108Ind.Cas.216
..... council, namely, that by reason of section. 262 (2) of the district municipalities act of 1884, which was a similar section to section. 354 (2) of the ..... as a company not liable to the tax had been taxed and the provisions of the act had, therefore, not in substance and in effect been complied with and that the municipality was not protected from action. in municipal council of mangalore v. codial bail press 27 m. 517 in which the same objection was taken by the municipal ..... present act the suit was not maintainable by reason of that section, it was held .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Allahabad
Reported in : AIR1930All225
..... such jurisdiction. the language of the statement is inadmissible, but even without referring to that statement, we have not the least hesitation to say that the bar councils act was never intended to and did not itself take away any inherent jurisdiction to punish for contempt of inferior courts that might be possessed by the high court. ..... of the application for execution as in the way in which it was pressed before the court, amounted to misconduct or contempt of court. if it did, the proper course is to proceed against him under the bar councils act or the contempt of courts act. in considering whether he should be made to pay the costs under section ..... pressed in view of the fact that the inherent powers of the court, whatever they may be, exist independently of statute.30. the only other legislative action, which, it is suggested, has taken away from this court its inherent powers admittedly pre-existing, is to be found in the legal practitioners act 18 of 1879 and the bar councils act .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Allahabad
Reported in : 125Ind.Cas.477
..... of the application for execution as in the way in which it was pressed before the court amounted to misconduct or contempt of court. if it did, the proper course is to proceed against him under the indian bar councils act or the courts act. in considering whether he should be made to pay the costs under section ..... such jurisdiction. the language of the statement is inadmissible, but even without referring to that statement, we have not the least hesitation to say that the bar councils act was never intended to and did not itself take away any inherent jurisdiction to punish for contempt of inferior courts that might be possessed by the high court ..... pressed in view of the fact that the inherent powers of the court, whatever they may be, exist independently of statute.26. the only other legislative action, which, it is suggested, has taken away from this court its inherent powers admittedly preexisting, is to be found in the legal practitioners act xviii of 1879 and the bar councils act .....
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