Legal Practitioners Act, 1879
No: 18 Dated: Oct, 29 1879
THE LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT, 1879
ACT NO. 18 OF 1879
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Legal Practitioners.
Preamble.—WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to Legal Practitioners in certain Provinces, and to empower the Provincial Government of every other Province to extend thereto such portions of this Act as such Government may think fit;
It is hereby enacted as follows:—
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title, commencement.—This Act may be called the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879; and shall come into force on the first day of January, 1880.
Local extent.—This section and section 2 extend to the whole of India 3 except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
The rest of this Act extends, in the first instance, only to the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Orissa and Delhi. But the State Government of any State may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend5 all or any of the provisions of the rest of this Act to the whole or any part of that State to which such provisions do not extend.
2. [Repeal of enactments.] Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1938 (1 of 1938) s. 2 and Schedule.
3. Interpretation-clause.—In this Act, unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context,—
“Judge” means the presiding judicial officer in every Civil and Criminal Court, by whatever title he is designated;
“subordinate Court” means all Courts subordinate to the High Court, including Courts of Small Causes established under Act No. 9 of 18501 or Act No. 11 of 18652 ;
“revenue-office” includes all Courts (other than Civil Courts) trying suits under any Act for the time being in force relating to landholders and their tenants or agents;
“legal practitioner” means an advocate, vakil or attorney of any High Court, a pleader mukhtar or revenue-agent ;
“tout” means a person—
(a) who procures, in consideration of any remuneration moving from any legal practitioner, the employment of the legal practitioner in any legal business; or who proposes to any legal practitioner or to any person interested in any legal business to procure, in consideration of any remuneration moving from either of them, the employment of the legal practitioner in such business; or
(b) who for the purposes of such procurement frequent the precincts of Civil or Criminal Courts or of revenue-offices, or railway stations, landing stages, lodging places or other places of public resort.