The Legal Practitioners Act, 1879

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 India 1[except the State of Jammuand 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, UttarPradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Orissa and Delhi. But the StateGovernment of any State may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette,extend3all or any of the provisions of the rest of this Act to the whole or any part of thatState to which such provisions do not extend.]

[Repeal of enactments.] Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1938 (1 of 1938) s. 2 andSchedule.

In this Act, unless there be something repugnant in thesubject or context, "Judge" means the presiding judicial officer in every Civil and Criminal Court, bywhatever title he is designated; "subordinate Court" means all Courts subordinate to the High Court, including Courtsof 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 thetime being in force relating to landholders and their tenants or agents ; "legal practitioner" means an advocate, vakil or attorney of any High Court, a pleader mukhtar orrevenue-agent ; 3["tout" means a person-- (a) who procures, in consideration of any remuneration moving from any legalpractitioner, the employment of the legal practitioner in any legal business; or who proposesto any legal practitioner or to any person interested in any legal business to procure, inconsideration of any remuneration moving from either of them, the employment of the legalpractitioner in such business; or (b) who for the purposes of such procurement frequent the precincts of Civil or CriminalCourts or of revenue-offices, or railway stations, landing stages, lodging places or otherplaces of public resort.]

[Advocates and Vakils.] Rep. by the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961), s. 50 (3)(w.e.f. 15-6-2011).

[Attorneys of High Court.] Rep. by s. 50(3), ibid. (w.e.f. 15-6-2011).