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Signature

There must be physical contract between that person and the signature or the mark put on the document, Commissioner of Agricultural Income Tax v. Keshab Chandra Mandal, AIR 1950 SC 265 (271). [General Clauses Act, 1897, s. … on the document, Commissioner of Agricultural Income Tax v. Keshab Chandra Mandal, AIR 1950 SC 265 (271). [General Clauses Act, 1897, s. 3(56)]

Merged territories

being administered as if they formed part of a Governor's Province or as if they were a Chief Commissioner's Province. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(33)] … if they formed part of a Governor's Province or as if they were a Chief Commissioner's Province. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(33)]

Not including a company to which the provisions.. apply

only confers a benefit on a company, to which clause 14 applies. Shree Changdeo Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1961 SC 1154 (1156): (1961) 2 SCR 990. [Income-tax Act, 1922, s. 23 (1), … Order does not seek to negative this test; it only confers a benefit on a company, to which clause 14 applies. Shree Changdeo Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1961 SC 1154 (1156): (1961)

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Province

of the jury. Province shall mean a Presidency, a Governor's Province, a Lieutenant Governor's Province or a Chief Commissioner's Province. [General Clauses Act, 1897, s. 3(45)] … Province shall mean a Presidency, a Governor's Province, a Lieutenant Governor's Province or a Chief Commissioner's Province. [General Clauses Act, 1897, s. 3(45)]

Provincial Act

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)] … 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,

Affidavit

in any cause or matter is liable to be cross-examined thereon. See Ord. XXXVIII., r. 28. The (English) Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 10), repealing 24 enactments from 16 & 17 Car. … declaration in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing. [The General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3 (3)] The expression 'affidavit' has been commonly understood to mean a sworn

British India

Dominion of India means all territories for the time being comprised within the Governors' Provinces and the Chief Commissioners' Provinces, except that a reference to British India in an Indian law passed or made before the commencement … of Part III of the Government of India Act, 1935, shall not include a reference to Berar. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3 (5)]

Interest

24) [see A.-G. v. Cozens, (1934) 50 TLR 320]; and so, with a positive injunction upon the Railway Commissioners to sell railway stock, etc., does s. 5 of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1873; but the (English) … Local Board v. West Riding and Grimsby Ry. Co., (1865) LR 1 QB 84], and the (English) Lands Clauses Acts, by their definition of 'Justices,' express the implied disqualification by interest; so, with an extension and an

Person

of 1980), s. 2(d)] It includes the Government. [Patents Act, 1970 (31 of 1970), s. 2(1)(s)] The General Clauses Act, 1897 defines that 'person shall include any company or association or body of individuals whether incorporated or not'. … Person, a Hindu Undivided Family is a person, Kshetra Mohan-Sannyasi Charan Sadhukhan v. Commissioner of Excess Profit Tax, West Bengal, AIR 1953 SC 516. According to company law it does not mean

Oath

and declaration in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(37)] An oath is a 'form of attestation by which a person signifies

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