S.1 Short title, commencement

       This Act may be called The Legal Practitioners Act, 1879, and shall come into force on the first day of January, 1880.
       Local extent.
       This section and section 2 extend to the whole of India1[except the State of Jammu and Kashmir].
       2[The rest of this Act extends, in the first instance, only to the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Orissa and Delhi. But the State Government of any State may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend all or any of the provisions of the rest of this Act to the whole or any part of that State to which such provisions do not extend.]
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S.2 Repeal of enactments

(Repealed by the Repealing Act, 1938 (1 of 1938), sec. 2 and sch.)

S.3 Interpretation clause

       In this Act, unless there be something repugnant 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 18501or Act No. 11 of 18652:
       "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:
       "the legal practitioner" means an advocate, vakil or attorney of any High Court, a pleader, mukhtar or revenue-agent:
       3["tout" means a person--
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S.36 Power to frame and publish lists of touts

       1[Power to frame and publish lists of touts
       (1) Every High Court, District Judge, Sessions Judge, District Magistrate and Presidency Magistrate, every Revenue Officer, not being below the rank of a Collector of a district, and the Chief Judge of every Presidency Small Cause Court (each as regards their or his own Court and the Courts, if any, subordinate thereto) may frame and publish lists of persons proved to their or his satisfaction,2[or to the satisfaction of any subordinate Court as provided in sub-section (2A)] by evidence of general repute or otherwise, habitually to act as touts, and may, from time to time, alter and amend such lists.
       2[Explanation.-- The passing of a resolution, declaring any person to be or not to be a tout, by a majority of the members present at a meeting, specially convened for the purpose, of an associatio