Purporting To Be Done
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Purporting to be done, connotes that the act was such as could ordinarily be done by the person in the ordinary course of his official duty, and the person doing it reasonably considered himself to be doing it, within his capacity as such, Shyam Manohar v. Fourth Additional District and Sessions Judge, AIR 1978 All 238.
Purporting to be done, under the Act will not include an act which is wholly outside the provisions of the Act and thus, ultra vires, Municipal Committee v. Meghraj, AIR 1966 MP 104.
Purporting to be done, under the Act will not include an act which is wholly outside the provisions of the Act and thus, ultra vires, Municipal Committee v. Meghraj, AIR 1966 MP 104.
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