Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138, 141 -- Dishonour of cheque - Offence by Company - Demand notice - Service of notice - If a drawer of cheque is a Company or partnership firm, notice should be served on Company in writing as mandated u/s 138(b) of the Act - Proof of that service can be only acknowledgement of serving the notice on representative of company is..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138 -- Dishonour of cheque - Demand notice - Service of notice - Seal of first accused/partnership firm is affixed and a representative of first accused have signed postal acknowledgement card - Notice sent to second accused same person in the said address had signed and fixed seal acknowledging the receipt of notice - Affixture of..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138, 141 -- Dishonour of cheque - Offence by company - Quashing of proceedings - Petitioners are admittedly partners in a partnership Firm - Claim of petitioners are that loan is time barred - Whether loan was already time barred or whether loan was subsequently acknowledged can be decided only after trial and whether the..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138 -- Dishonour of cheque - Partnership firm - Once a notice has been issued and served upon a partner, it would be deemed to be a notice to firm as well...........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138, 142 -- Dishonour of cheque - Proprietorship firm - Burden to prove that it is a proprietorship firm lies on the complainant - Use of word `M/s' may also lead to an inference that it is a partnership firm - On the other hand, claim of complainant that it is a proprietorship firm not denied by accused - In such circumstances, it..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138 -- Dishonour of cheque - Partnership firm - Firm not made an accused - Unless company or firm has committed the offence as a principal accused, persons mentioned in sub-section (1) or (2) would not be liable and convicted as vicariously liable - Conviction of partner of the firm set aside...........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138, 118, 139 -- Dishonor of cheque - Presumption - Appeal against acquittal - No valid documentary evidence produced by complainant for substantiating legality or existence of any legally enforceable debt or other liability on part of accused - Even, said debt/liability is not reflected from relevant balance-sheet which was..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138 -- Dishonour of cheque - Issuance of cheque to outgoing partner without dissolution of firm or rendition of accounts or settlement of his share/contribution - Till the share of complainant is determined in relation to profits and losses incurred by the Firm, there is no question of complainant claiming for the entire..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138, 141 -- Dishonour of cheque - Offence by Partnership Firm - Cheque issued in the name of Partnership Firm - Cheque dishonored - No Statutory notice was given to Partnership Firm and even Partnership Firm was not made as an accused in complaint - Only partners were shown as accused in complaint - Complaint held, not..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138 -- Dishonour of cheque - Offence by u, registered Partnership Firm - Applicability of bar u/s 69(2) of Partnership Act - Action u/s 138 of the Act is not a suit to enforce a right arising out of a contract - S.138 of the Act is a penal provision - Bar u/s 69(2) of Partnership Act does not operate in such criminal prosecutions...........
