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Giving notice in writing, Chapter XVII of the Act, containing ss. 138 to 142, was inserted in the Act as per Banking Public Financial Institution and Negotiable Instruments Laws (Amendment) Act, 1968. When the legislature contemplated that notice in writing should be given to the drawer of the cheque, the legislature must be presumed to have been aware of the modern devices and equipment already in vogue and also in store for future. If the Court were to interpret the words 'giving notice in writing' in the s. as restricted to the customary mode of sending notice through postal service or even by personal delivery, the interpretative process would fail to cope up with the change of time. If the notice envisaged in clause (b) of the proviso to s. 138 was transmitted by Fax it would be compliance with the legal requirement, SIL Import v. Exim Aides Silk Exporters, (1991) 4 SCC 567: AIR 1999 SC 1609 (1612, 1613). [Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881, s. 138, proviso (b)]Giving Notice in writi...
Writing
Writing, in any Act of Parliament, shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including printing, lithography, photography, and other modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 20.Expression referring to 'writing' shall be construed as including references to printing, lithography, photography and other modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form. [General Clauses Act, 1987 (10 of 1987), s. 3(65)]Writing, includes decoration lettering ornamentation, etc., produced by stencil. [Rajasthan Appropriation (No. 3) Act, 2005, s. 2(f)]Writing, shall be construed as including reference to printing lithography, photography and other modes or representing or reproducing words in a visible form. See General Clauses Act, 1897, s. 3(65), Vikram Singh v. Shri Ram, AIR 1995 MP 140....
write down
write down wrote down writ·ten down writ·ing down : to reduce the book value of (an asset) [write down accounts receivable] write-down [rīt-dan] n ...
Compromise in writing
Compromise in writing, specific and categorical statements on oath recorded in writing by the court and duly read and accepted to be correct by the person making the statement and signed by him can be said to be writing, Pushpa Devi Bhagat v. Rajinder Singh, AIR 2006 SC 2628 [Civil Procedure Code, 1908, O. 23, r. 3]...
tax write-off
tax write-off : a tax deduction of an amount of depreciation, expense, or loss [cancelled the debt and took a tax write-off on the loss] ...
write-off
write-off 1 : the elimination of an asset or amount due from the books 2 : tax write-off ...
write up
write up : to increase the book value of (an asset) write-up [rīt-əp] n ...
write-off
write-off 1 : the elimination of an asset or amount due from the books 2 : tax write-off ...
Hand writing
Hand writing, what was understood by hand-writing in 1872 must now in the present times after more than a century of the enactment of that provision, be necessarily understood to include typewriting as well, since typing has become more common than handwriting and this change is on account of the availability of typewriters and their common use much after the statute was enacted in 1872, State v. S.J. Choudhary, AIR 1996 SC 1491 (1496): (1996) 2 SCC 428. (Evidence Act, 1872, s. 45)...
In writing
In writing, when a confessional statement is dictated to a Steno and typed on a typewriter, the same amounts to a confessional statement being in writing, C.B.I. v. Ashia Hussain, AIR 2003 SC 1441 (1444): (2003) 4 SCC 166. [TADA, 1987, s. 15(1)]...
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