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Provincial Act, shall mean an Act made by the Governor-in-Council, Lieutenant Governor-in-Council or Chief Commissioner in Council of a Province under any of the Indian Councils Acts or the Government of India Act, 1915, or an Act made by the local legislature or the Governor of a province under the Government of India Act, or an Act made by the Provincial Legislature or Governor of a Province or the Coorg Legislative Council under the Government of India Act, 1935. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(46)]...
Transfer of Land Acts (English)
Transfer of Land Acts (English). The Land Registry Act, 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. 53), and the Land Transfer Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 87), were passed to facilitate the transfer of land in England. The Acts were practically a dead letter: see Report of Select Committee of House of Commons on Land Titles and Transfers, 1879. Compulsory registration on Order of Council not dissented from by the local county council was introduced by the Land Transfer Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65). The first Order in Council (18th July, 1898) applied compulsory registration to the Administrative County of London as from specified dates; this Act has been superseded by the Land Registration Act, 1925 (see REGISTRATION OF TITLE), and as to the previous Acts, Fortescue-Brickdale and Sheldon's Land Transfer Acts. The L.T. Act, 1897, Part I., established a 'Real Representative,' see that title....
Campbell's (Lord) Acts (English)
Campbell's (Lord) Acts (English)-(1) for amending the practice in prosecutions for libel (see that title), 6 & 7 Vict. c. 96 (the LibelAct,1843); and (2) the Fatal Accidents Act,1846, now, with its amending Acts, known as the Fatal Accidents Acts, 1846 to 1908, provided for the compensation of the families of persons killed by negligence (q.v.). To found an action the death must have resulted from the act, neglect, or default of the defendant against whom an action founded on such act, neglect, or default would have lain at the suit of the deceased had he not succumbed to his injuries. The damages recoverable are strictly on the basis of compensation [e.g., funeral expenses not recoverable, Clark v. London General Omnibus Co., 1906 (2) KB 648]. The action, which is to compensate the wife, husband, parent, or child of the deceased, may be commenced by the executor or administrator, but if not instituted within six months, then any person interested may commence the proceedings. The acti...
Expiring laws continuance Acts
Expiring laws continuance Acts. Acts so called and continuing, generally until the end of the year following that in which they are passed, temporary Acts which would otherwise expire have for many years been passed at the end of each session of Parliament. The practice of passing temporary acts and continuing them by annual continuance Acts is a very old one, which has frequently caused complaint in the House of Commons (see Solicitors' Journal, April 18th, 1903). The (English) Ballot Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 33), was, for example, kept in force by annual inclusion in successive Expiring Laws Continuance Acts until 1908, when it was made permanent. The (English) Expiring Laws Act, 1922, made nineteen Acts permanent, thus effecting a simplification long overdue, and the (English) Expiring Laws Acts of 1925 and 1932 made permanent several other statutes....
Superannuation Acts, 1834-1935
Superannuation Acts, 1834-1935, (English) for pen-sioning the civil servants of the Crown or public authorities.The (English) principal Act is the Superannuation Act, 1859 (4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 42), which as amended by the Superannuation Acts, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 10), and 1935 (25 & 26Geo. 5, c. 44), fixes the scale of pension at 10/60ths and 10/80ths for entrants after 30th September, 1909, of the average annual salary of the three years before retirement, and see (in the specified cases) s. 4 of the 1935 Act, on retirement after ten years' service, and gives an additional 1/60th or 1/80th for every additional year of service up to the fortieth year.As to local authorities, see (English) Local Govern-ment and other Officers Superannuation Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 59), an adoptive Act; schools (elementary), School Teachers (Superannuation) Acts, 1918-1924; others, Teachers (Superannuation) Acts, 1918-1924; others, Teachers (Superannuation Acts), 1918-1935. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. ...
Act done under colour of office
Act done under colour of office, an act is not done under colour of an office merely because the point of time at which it is done coincides with the point of time the accused is invested with the powers or duty of the office. To be able to say that an act was done under the colour of an office one must discover a reasonable connection between the act alleged and the duty or authority imposed on the accused by the Bombay Police Act or other statutory enactment. Unless there is a reasonable connection between the act complained of and the powers and duties of the office, it is difficult to say that the act was done by the accused officer under the colour of his office, State of Maharashtra v. Narhar Rao, AIR 1966 SC 1783 (1785): (1966) 3 SCR 880. See also AIR 1963 SC 849. [Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 161(1)]...
Rash act
Rash act, a rash act is primarily an over hasty act. It is opposed to a deliberate act. Still a rash act can be a deliberate act in the sense that it was done without due care and caution. Culpable rashness lies in running the risk of doing an act with recklessness and with indifference as to the consequences. Criminal negligence is the failure to exercise duty with reasonable and proper care and precaution guarding against injury to the public generally or to any individual in particular. It is the imperative duty of the driver of a vehicle to adopt such reasonable and proper care and precaution, Mohd. Aynuddin v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 2000 SC 2511 (2512): (2000) 7 SCC 72. (Indian Penal Code, s. 304A)...
Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856 (English)
Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856 (English) (19 & 20 Vict. c. 97). Its principal enactments are: (1) that a writ of execution shall not effect a title bona fide acquired before seizure; (2) that in an action for breach of contract to deliver goods sold, a writ for the delivery of the goods may be obtained (these two ss. are repealed by the Sale of Goods Act, 1893, and reproduced by ss. 26 and 52 of that Act); (3) that the consideration for a guarantee need not appear in writing; (4) that a guarantee to or for a firm ceases upon a change in the firm (this s. is repealed by the Partnership Act, 1890, and reproduced by s. 18 of that Act); (5) that a surety who discharges a liability is to be entitled to an assignment of all securities held by the creditor; (Ss. 6 and 7) that an acceptance of a bill of exchange must be in writing, and that 'inland bill of exchange' bears a certain definition-these two sections are repealed by the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, and reproduced by ss. 7 and 17...
Locke's Act
Locke's Act (English), (23 & 24 Vict. c. 127), the Solicitors Act, 1860, amending the law as to the admission etc., of solicitors. Secs. 22 (in part) and 34, 35 have not been repealed by the Solicitors Act, 1932 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 37).Locke-King's Act (English) (17 & 18 Vict. c. 113), the Real Estates Charges Act, 1854 (amended by the Real Estate Charges Act, 1867 and 1877 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 69, and 40 & 41 Vict. c. 34)), whereby the heir or devisee of real estate was first precluded from claiming payment of a mortgage on such estate out of the personal assets of the ancestor or testator. In respect of deaths after 1925, both these Acts were repealed and reproduced and extended by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925; see s. 35....
Brougham's (Lord) Acts (English)
Brougham's (Lord) Acts (English). The best known of them are the Beer Act of 1830 (11 Geo. 4, 8 1 Wm. 4, c. 64), the Judicial Committee Act of 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 41), the repealed County Court Act of 1846, the repealed Act for shortening the language of Acts of Parliament (13 & 34 Vict. c. 21), for which ss. 1, 3 of the Interpretation Act, 1889, are now substituted, and the Evidence Acts of 1845 and 1851 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 113), and (14 & 15 Vict. c. 99); and the Act, now replaced, which made slave trading a felony for the first time....
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