Madras High Court Reports: Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Madras, Volume 1

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J. Higgingbotham, 1864 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 373 - So much of any law or usage, now in force within the territories subject to the government of the East India Company, as inflicts on any person forfeiture of rights or property, or may be held in any way to impair or affect any right of inheritance, by reason of his or her renouncing, or having been e.xcluded from the communion of any religion, or being deprived of caste, shall cease to be enforced as law in the courts of the East India Company, and in the courts established by royal charter within...
Page 33 - Every objection to any indictment for any formal defect apparent on the face thereof shall be taken by demurrer or motion to quash such indictment before the jury shall be sworn, and not afterwards...
Page 451 - Whoever voluntarily causes a woman with child to miscarry shall, if such miscarriage be not caused in good faith for the purpose of saving the life of the woman, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both...
Page 370 - ... be payable by virtue of some written instrument at a certain time, or, if payable otherwise, then from the time when demand of payment shall have been made in writing, so as such demand shall give notice to the debtor that interest...
Page 41 - ... makes any statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, touching any point material to the object for which the declaration is made or used, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave false evidence.
Page 276 - ... enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as " The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," and shall be construed with and as part of " The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," hereinafter termed the Principal Act.
Page 370 - That, upon all debts or sums certain, payable at a certain time or otherwise, the jury, on the trial of any issue, or on any inquisition of damages, may, if they shall think fit, allow interest to the creditor at a rate not exceeding the current rate of interest...
Page 277 - Act the holder of the certificate is superseded or removed by that court. (2.) Where any case before any such court as aforesaid involves a question as to the cancelling or suspending of a certificate, that court shall, at the conclusion of the case or as soon afterwards as possible, state in open court the decision to which they have come with respect to the cancelling or suspending thereof.
Page 116 - ... the said plaintiff shall have judgment to recover such sum only, and no costs . and if a verdict shall not be found for the plaintiff the defendant shall be entitled to his...
Page 116 - That if any action shall be commenced after the passing of this Act in any of Her Majesty's superior courts of record, for any cause other than those lastly hereinbefore specified, for which a plaint might have been entered...

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