Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
Section - 1 - Short titleSection - 2 - Repeal of enactments
Section - 3 - Interpretation clause
Section - 4 - "Promissory note
Section - 5 - "Bill of exchange
Section - 6 - "Cheque
Section - 7 - "Drawer", "Drawee
Section - 8 - "Holder
Section - 9 - "Holder in due course
Section - 10 - "Payment in due course
Section - 11 - "Inland instrument
Section - 12 - "Foreign instrument
Section - 13 - "Negotiable instrument
Section - 14 - Negotiation
Section - 15 - Indorsement
Section - 16 - Indorsement "in blank" and "in full
Section - 17 - Ambiguous instruments
Section - 18 - Where amount is stated differently in figures and words
Section - 19 - Instruments payable on demand
Section - 20 - Inchoate stamped instruments
Section - 21 - "At sight", "On presentment", "After sight
Section - 22 - "Maturity
Section - 23 - Calculating maturity of bill or note payable so many months after date or sight
Section - 24 - Calculating maturity of bill or note payable so many days after date or sight
Section - 25 - When day of maturity is a holiday
Section - 26 - Capacity to make, etc., the promissory notes, etc
Section - 27 - Agency
Section - 28 - Liability of agent signing
Section - 29 - Liability of legal representative signing
Section - 30 - Liability of drawer
Section - 31 - Liability of drawee of cheque
Section - 32 - Liability of maker of note and acceptor of bill
Section - 33 - Only drawee can be acceptor except in need or for honour
Section - 34 - Acceptance by several drawees not partners
Section - 35 - Liability of indorser
Section - 36 - Liability of prior parties to holder in due course
Section - 37 - Maker, drawer and acceptor principals
Section - 38 - Prior party a principal in respect of each subsequent party
Section - 39 - Suretyship
Section - 40 - Discharge of indorser's liability
Section - 41 - Acceptor bound, although, indorsement forged
Section - 42 - Acceptance of bill drawn in fictitious name
Section - 43 - Negotiable instrument made, etc., without consideration
Section - 44 - Partial absence or failure of money-consideration
Section - 45 - Partial failure of consideration not consisting of money
Section - 45A - Holder's right to duplicate of lost bill
Section - 46 - Delivery
Section - 47 - Negotiation by delivery
Section - 48 - Negotiation by indorsement
Section - 49 - Conversion of indorsement in blank into indorsement in full
Section - 50 - Effect of indorsement
Section - 51 - Who may negotiate
Section - 52 - Indorser who excludes his own liability or makes it conditional
Section - 53 - Holder deriving title from holder in due course
Section - 54 - Instrument indorsed in blank
Section - 55 - Conversion of indorsement in blank into indorsement in full
Section - 56 - Indorsement for part of sum due
Section - 57 - Legal representative cannot by delivery only negotiate instrument indorsed by deceased
Section - 58 - Instrument obtained by unlawful means or for unlawful consideration
Section - 59 - Instrument acquired after dishonour or when overdue
Section - 60 - Instrument negotiable till payment or satisfaction
Section - 61 - Presentment for acceptance
Section - 62 - Presentment of promissory note for sight
Section - 63 - Drawee's time for deliberation
Section - 64 - Presentment for payment
Section - 65 - Hours for presentment
Section - 66 - Presentment for payment of instrument payable after date or sight
Section - 67 - Presentment for payment of promissory note payable by instalments
Section - 68 - Presentment for payment of instrument payable at specified place and not elsewhere
Section - 69 - Instrument payable at specified place
Section - 70 - Presentment where no exclusive place specified
Section - 71 - Presentment when maker, etc., has no known place of business or residence
Section - 72 - Presentment of cheque to charge drawer
Section - 73 - Presentment of cheque to charge any other person
Section - 74 - Presentment of instrument payable on demand
Section - 75 - Presentment by or to agent, representative of deceased, or assignee of insolvent
Section - 75A - Excuse for delay in presentment for acceptance or payment
Section - 76 - When presentment unnecessary
Section - 77 - Liability of banker for negligently dealing with bill presented for payment
Section - 78 - To whom payment should be made
Section - 79 - Interest when rate specified
Section - 80 - Interest when no rate specified
Section - 81 - Delivery of instrument on payment, or indemnity in case of loss
Section - 82 - Discharge from liability
Section - 83 - Discharge by allowing drawee more than forty-eight hours to accept
Section - 84 - When cheque not duly presented and drawer damaged thereby
Section - 85 - Cheque payable to order
Section - 85A - Drafts drawn by one branch of a bank on another payable to order
Section - 86 - Parties not consenting discharged by qualified or limited acceptance
Section - 87 - Effect of material alteration
Section - 88 - Acceptor or indorser bound notwithstanding previous alteration
Section - 89 - Payment of instrument on which alteration is not apparent
Section - 90 - Extinguishment of rights of action on bill in acceptor's hands
Section - 91 - Dishonour by non-acceptance
Section - 92 - Dishonour by non-payment
Section - 93 - By and to whom notice should be given
Section - 94 - Mode in which notice may be given
Section - 95 - Party receiving must transmit notice of dishonour
Section - 96 - Agent for presentment
Section - 97 - When party to whom notice given is dead
Section - 98 - When notice of dishonour is unnecessary
Section - 99 - Noting
Section - 100 - Protest
Section - 101 - Contents of protest
Section - 102 - Notice of protest
Section - 103 - Protest for non-payment after dishonour by non-acceptance
Section - 104 - Protest of foreign bills
Section - 104A - When noting equivalent to protest
Section - 105 - Reasonable time
Section - 106 - Reasonable time of giving notice of dishonour
Section - 107 - Reasonable time for transmitting such notice
Section - 108 - Acceptance for honour
Section - 109 - How acceptance for honour must be made
Section - 110 - Acceptance not specifying for whose honour it is made
Section - 111 - Liability of acceptor for honour
Section - 112 - When acceptor for honour may be charged
Section - 113 - Payment for honour
Section - 114 - Right of payer for honour
Section - 115 - Drawee in case of need
Section - 116 - Acceptance and payment without protest
Section - 117 - Rules as to compensation
Section - 118 - Presumptions as to negotiable instruments
Section - 119 - Presumption on proof of protest
Section - 120 - Estoppel against denying original validity of instrument
Section - 121 - Estoppel against denying capacity of payee to indorse
Section - 122 - Estoppel against denying signature or capacity of prior party
Section - 123 - Cheque crossed generally
Section - 124 - Cheque crossed specially
Section - 125 - Crossing after issue
Section - 126 - Payment of cheque crossed generally
Section - 127 - Payment of cheque crossed specially more than once
Section - 128 - Payment in due course of crossed cheque
Section - 129 - Payment of crossed cheque out of due course
Section - 130 - Cheque bearing "not negotiable
Section - 131 - Non-liability of banker receiving payment of cheque
Section - 131A - Application of Chapter to drafts
Section - 132 - Set of
Section - 133 - Holder of first acquired part entitled to all
Section - 134 - Law governing liability of maker, acceptor or indorser of foreign instrument
Section - 135 - Law of place of payment governs dishonour
Section - 136 - Instrument made, etc., out of India, but in accordance with the law of India
Section - 137 - Presumption as to foreign law
Section - 138 - Dishonour of cheque for insufficiency, etc., of funds in the account
Section - 139 - Presumption in favour of holder
Section - 140 - Defence which may not be allowed in any prosecution under section 138
Section - 141 - Offences by companies
Section - 142 - Cognizance of offences
Section - 142A - Validation for transfer of pending cases
Section - 143 - Power of Court to try cases summarily
Section - 143A - Power to direct interim compensation
Section - 144 - Mode of service of summons
Section - 145 - Evidence on affidavit
Section - 146 - Bank's slip prima facie evidence of certain facts
Section - 147 - Offences to be compoundable
Section - 148 - Power of Appellate Court to order payment pending appeal against conviction
Schedule - Repealed
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