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Official act

Official act, the expression 'Official act' means an act by a person while acting or purporting to act in discharge of his official duties, AIR 1967 Punj 51 (52). [Criminal PC, 1898, s. 197(1)]

Marriage

without consent where the parties had subsequently lived together until the passing of the Act. Present Law.--The general purport of the existing law is to require a public ceremony by a clergyman of the Church of England,

Pawnbroker

reference to the sale. A pawnbroker may bid for and purchase at a sale by auction, made or purporting to be made under this Act, a pledge pawned with him, and on such purchase he shall be deemed

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Land

AIR 1988 SC 1626 (1635). [Constitution of India, Sch. V, para 5(2) (a)] Means any land used or purported to be used for residential, commercial or industrial purpose or for any other purpose whatsoever. [Kolkata Land Revenue … or, more curtly expressed, Cujus est solum ejus est altum. See Co. Litt. 4 a. In an (English) Act of Parliament passed after 1850 'land' includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses, and buildings of any tenure, Interpretation

Chose

(English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 25(6), any absolute assignment by writing under the hand of the assignor (not purporting to be by way of charge only) of any debt, or other legal thing in action of which express

Options to purchase

of a fine after 1925 to take effect more than twenty-one years from the date of the instrument purporting to create in except in regard to terms or interests under a settlement or under equitable powers for a … 1925, must be registered in the Land Registry under ss. 4 and 10 of the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, as ESTATE CONTRACTS (q.v.), or they will be void against a purchaser for value (with or without

Decision or order passed by an Officer of Customs under this Act

this Act' used in S. 188 of the Sea Customs Act must mean a real and not a purported determination. A deter-mination, which takes into consideration factors which the officer has no right to take into account

Public records

in the custody of the Master of the Rolls (see RECORD), and may be proved by a copy purporting to be carried by the deputy keeper of these Records [see the (English) Public Record Office Acts, 1838-1898]. As … material produce by a computer or by any other device, of any records creating agency. [Maharashtra Public Records Act, 2005, s. 2(g)] Public records, includes: (i) any document, manuscript and file; (ii) any microfilm microfiche and facsimile

Indenture

Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5, it is provided that a deed purporting to be an indenture shall have the effect of an indenture though not indented or expressed to be an

Civil proceeding

its jurisdiction under Art. 226, where the aggrieved party seeks relief against infringement of civil rights by authorities purporting to act in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by revenue statutes, CIT, Bombay v. Iswarlal Bhagwandas (1966) 1

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