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Commentaries on the Indian Railways Act IX of 1890 (with all Amendments up to end of 1915)

1915

Besides furnishing a number of decisions of the Indian courts bearing on the construction of the Railway Act grouped under the appropriate sections the author has called together a mass of information on railway topics generally included under the term " General Rules " sanctioned by the Government of India to which the public has hitherto had no easy access. [...] Much of the litigation in railway matters arises not on the sections of the Railway " carriers Act which are fairly short and simple but from the standing rules framed thereunder which are not easily accessible to the practising lawyer or the general public. [...] Appendix C contains the General Rules framed by the Railway Board under the Act for the guidance of Railway servants and the public. [...] Printers Madras."PREFACE The great encouragement given to me by the Goverment of India by the several Railway Administrations and other common carriers by the legal profession and by the general public when I brought out my second edition of High Court Decisions of Indian Railway Cases " has induced me in response to a further request from several of the influential purchasers of that pub [...] I have endeavoured to note down under appropriate sections such of the decisions of the Indian Courts as have any manner of bearing on the construction of the Indian Railways Act ; and great pains have been taken to select English decisions which seem to throw light on the construction of the language of the Indian Legislature where the language of the statute law in England shows any close sim

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Pages
387
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143025
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xxx M. Chariar view
Chapter I. Preliminary
1-5 unknown view
Chapter II. Inspection of Railways
6-7 unknown view
Chapter III. Construction and Maintenance of Works
7-22 unknown view
Chapter IV. Opening of Railways
22-27 unknown view
Chapter V. Railway Commissions and Traffic Facilities
28-48 unknown view
Chapter VI. Working of Railways
49-75 unknown view
Chapter VII. Responsibility of Railway Administrations as Carriers
76-104 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Accidents
104-107 unknown view
Chapter IX. Penalties and Offences
107-136 unknown view
Chapter X. Supplemental Provisions
137-146 unknown view
Appendix
1-165 unknown view
Index
i-xlii unknown view

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