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....xplanation 2.-When a person causes one thing to resemble another thing, and the resemblance is such that a person might be deceived thereby, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the person so causing the one thing to resemble the other thing intended by means of that resemblance to practise deception or knew it to be likely that deception would thereby be practised; (5) "Court" means a Judge who is empowered by law to act judicially alone, or a body of Judges which is empowered by law to act judicially as a body, when such Judge or body of Judges is acting judicially; (6) "death" means the death of a human being unless the contrary appears from the context; (7) "dishonestly" means doing anythin....
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....document, and shall be construed in the same manner as if the words "pay to the holder" or words to that effect had been written over the signature; (9) "fraudulently" means doing anything with the intention to defraud but not otherwise; (10) "gender".-The pronoun "he" and its derivatives are used of any person, whether male, female or transgender. Explanation.-- "transgender" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (k) of section 2 of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 (40 of 2019); (11) "good faith".-Nothing is said to be done or believed in "good faith" which is done or believed without due care and attention; (12) "Government" means the Central Government or a St....
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.... a particular part of India; (19) "man" means male human being of any age; (20) "month" and "year".--Wherever the word "month" or the word "year" is used, it is to be understood that the month or the year is to be reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar; (21) "movable property" includes property of every description, except land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything which is attached to the earth; (22) "number".-Unless the contrary appears from the context, words importing the singular number include the plural number, and words importing the plural number include the singular number; (23) "oath" includes a solemn affirmation substituted by law for an oath, and....
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.... (a) every commissioned officer in the Army, Navy or Air Force; (b) every Judge including any person empowered by law to discharge, whether by himself or as a member of any body of persons, any adjudicatory functions; (c) every officer of a Court including a liquidator, receiver or commissioner whose duty it is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to make, authenticate, or keep any document, or to take charge or dispose of any property, or to execute any judicial process, or to administer any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order in the Court, and every person specially authorised by a Court to perform any of such duties; (d) every assessor or member of a pancha....
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....on who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to prepare, publish, maintain or revise an electoral roll or to conduct an election or part of an election; (k) every person- (i) in the service or pay of the Government or remunerated by fees or commission for the performance of any public duty by the Government; (ii) in the service or pay of a local authority as defined in clause (31) of section 3 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), a corporation established by or under a Central or State Act or a Government company as defined in clause (45) of section 2 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013) Explanation.- (a) persons falling under any of the descriptions made in this clause....
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....ause an effect "voluntarily" when he causes it by means whereby he intended to cause it, or by means which, at the time of employing those means, he knew or had reason to believe to be likely to cause it. Illustration. A sets fire, by night, to an inhabited house in a large town, for the purpose of facilitating a robbery and thus causes the death of a person. Here, A may not have intended to cause death; and may even be sorry that death has been caused by his act; yet, if he knew that he was likely to cause death, he has caused death voluntarily; (34) "will" means any testamentary document; (35) "woman" means a female human being of any age; (36) "wrongful gain" means gain by unlawful means of pr....