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2 - [Repealed.].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