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The Indian Contract Act, 1872 [1] prescribes the law relating to contracts in India and is the key regulating Indian contract law. Then the principles of English Common Law. It is applicable to all the states of India. It determines the circumstances in which promises made by the parties to a contract shall be legally binding.
Punjab Laws Act 1872 4 Indian Contract Act 1872 9 Indian Christian Marriage Act 1872 15 Madras Civil Courts Act 1873 3 Government Savings Banks Act 1873 5 Northern India Canal and Drainage Act 1873 8 Married Women's Property Act 1874 3 Laws Local Extent Act 1874 15 Majority Act 1875 9 Chota Nagpur Encumbered Estates Act 1876 6
Based on English contract law and the British Indian contract law, it was enacted in the 19th century and re-enacted by the Parliament of Bangladesh after the country's independence. It includes chapters on offer and acceptance , voidable contracts, contingent contracts, performance, breach of contract , contractual relations, the sale of goods ...
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 compelled the British government to pass the act. [citation needed] The act was followed a few months later by Queen Victoria's proclamation to the "Princes, Chiefs, and People of India", which, among other things, stated, "We hold ourselves bound to the natives of our Indian territories by the same obligation of ...
The history of the present Act is a long one. The Act was originally drafted in 1866 by the 3rd Indian Law Commission and introduced in December 1867 in the council and it was referred to a Select Committee. Objections were raised by the mercantile community to the numerous deviations from the English Law in which it contained.
The Indian Appropriations Act is the name of several acts passed by the United States Congress.A considerable number of acts were passed under the same name throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, but the most notable landmark acts consist of the Appropriation Bill for Indian Affairs of 1851 [1] and the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act.
Though the Act did increase Indian participation in the legislative councils, the Act did nothing to address the Indian National Congress's demands for colonial self-government. [ citation needed ] The introduction of separate electorates for Muslims was viewed by the Congress as an imperial attempt at control through an elective policy of ...
Whereas the Indian Independence Act, 1947, provides that as from the fifteenth day of August, 1947, there shall be set up an independent Dominion known as INDIA, and that the Government of India Act, 1935 shall with such omissions, additions, adaptations and modifications as the Governor General may by order specify, be applicable to the ...