Act, Something done or performed especially voluntarily; a deed, Black's law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 24.
Is used with reference to an offence or a civil wrong, shall include a series of acts, and words which refer to act done extend also to illegal omissions. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3 (2)]
The term act is one of the ambiguous import, being used in various senses of different degrees of generation. When it is said, however, that an act is one of the essential conditions of liability. We use the term in the widest sense of which it is capable. We mean by it any event which is subject to the control of the human will. Such a definition is, indeed, not ultimate, but it is sufficient for the purpose of the law. John Salmond, Jurisprudence 367; Glanville L. Williams, 10th Edn. 1947.
Act does not mean depose, Janki Vashdeo Bhojwani v. Indusind Bank Ltd., AIR 2005 SC 439.
In view of the provisions of the General Clauses Act, the expression 'act also includes illegal omissions, Amalgamated Electricity Co. v. Ajmer Muncipality, AIR 1969 SC 227 (231): (1969) 1 SCR 2130. [General Clauses Act, 1987, s. 3(2)]
The word 'act' does not mean only any particular, specific instantaneous act of a person, but denotes, a series of act, Om Prakash v. State of Punjab, AIR 1961 SC 1782 (1786). (Penal Code 1860, s. 33)
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