Lawgist6Definitions in the Code to be understood subject to exceptions
Throughout this Code every definition of an offence, every penal provision, and every illustration of every such definition or penal provision, shall be understood subject to the exceptions contained in the Chapter entitled "General Exceptions", though those exceptions are not repeated in such definition, penal provision, or illustration.
Illustrations
(a) The sections, in this Code, which contain definitions of offences, do not express that a child under seven years of age cannot commit such offences; but the definitions are to be understood subject to the general exception which provides that nothing shall be an offence which is done by a child under seven years of age.
(b) A, a police-officer, without warrant, apprehends Z, who has committed murder. Here A is not guilty of the offence of wrongful confinement; for he was bound by law to apprehend Z, and therefore the case falls within the general exception which provides that "nothing is an offence which is done by a person who is bound by law to do it".
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- 6 Definitions in the Code to be understood subject to exceptions
- 7 Sense of expression once explained
- 8 Gender
- 9 Number
- 10 ''Man''. ''Woman''
- 11 ''Person''
- 12 ''Public''
- 13 [Omitted.]
- 14 ''Servant of Government''
- 15 [Repealed.]
- 16 [Repealed .]
- 17 ''Government''
- 18 ''India''
- 19 ''Judge''
- 20 ''Court of Justice''
- 21 ''Public servant''
- 22 ''Moveable property''
- 23 ''Wrongful gain''
- 24 ''Dishonestly''
- 25 ''Fraudulently''
- 26 ''Reason to believe''
- 27 Property in possession of wife, clerk or servant
- 28 ''Counterfeit''
- 29 ''Document''
- 29A ''Electronic record''
- 30 ''Valuable security''
- 31 ''A will''
- 32 Words referring to acts include illegal omissions
- 33 ''Act''."Omission
- 34 Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention
- 35 When such an act is criminal by reason of its being done with a criminal knowledge or intention
- 36 Effect caused partly by act and partly by omission
- 37 Co-operation by doing one of several acts constituting an offence
- 38 Persons concerned in criminal act may be guilty of different offences
- 39 ''Voluntarily''
- 40 ''Offence''
- 41 ''Special law''
- 42 ''Local law''
- 43 ''Illegal''."Legally bound to do"
- 45 ''Life''
- 47 ''Animal''
- 48 ''Vessel''
- 49 ''Year''."Month
- 50 ''Section''
- 51 ''Oath''
- 52 ''Good faith''
- 52A ''Harbour-''
