Legal Practitioners Act,1879
Act No : 18
Section :
Interpretation-clause.
3. Interpretation-clause. In this Act, unless there be somethingrepugnant 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 1850 2* or Act No. 11 of 1865 3*: "revenue-office" includes all Courts (other than Civil Courts) trying suits under any Act for the time being in force relating to land-holders and their tenants or agents: "legal practitioner" means an advocate, vakil or attorney of any High Court, a pleader, mukhtar or revenue-agent: 4*["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;---------------------------------------------------------------------1 Under this power, the Act has been extended, subject to certainomissions and so far only as it relates to Judicial Courts, Civil andCriminal, to the Madras Presidency, except the Scheduled Districts,from 1st April 1882, see Fort St. George Gazette, 1881, Pt. I, pp. 491and 707. Ss. 3 and 4 of the Act have been extended to the RegulationDistricts of the Bombay Presidency, see Bombay Government Gazette,1885, Pt. I. p. 290; and ss. 13 [except clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and(f) thereof], 34, 36 and 40 have been extended to the whole of theBombay Presidency (Bombay Gazette, 1904, Pt. I, p. 1635). Ch. I, s.40, Sch. II, and so much of Chs. III, V, VI and VII as relates topleaders, have been extended to Coorg, see Mysore Gazette, 1879, Pt.I, p. 355; see also Coorg District Gazette, 1891, Pt. I, p. 140, fornotification extending ss. 4, 5 and 38; Coorg District Gazette, 1899,Pt. I, p. 122, for notification extending ss. 3, 13 and 36 as amendedby Act 11 of 1896 so far as they relate to pleaders; and CoorgGazette, 1935, Pt. I, p. 2, for notification extending ss. 4 and 41.Ss. 4 and 41 have been extended to Ajmer-Merwara, see Gazette ofIndia, 1927, Pt. II-A, p. 214.2 See now the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 (15 of 1882).3 See now the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 (9 of 1887).4 Subs. by Act 15 of 1926, s. 2 for the former definition.7 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 frequents the precincts of Civil or Criminal Courts or of revenue- offices, or railway stations, landing stages, lodging places or other places of public resort.]
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