The High Courts (Seals) Act, 1950
# THE HIGH COURTS (SEALS) ACT, 1950
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 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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SECTIONS

1. Short title.
2. Seals of High Courts.
3. [Repealed.]


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# THE HIGH COURTS (SEALS) ACT, 1950

 ACT NO. 7 OF 1950

[27th February, 1950.]

# An Act to provide for the use of seals of common form and design by the High Courts in         
 the States.

BE it enacted by Parliament as follows:—

**1. Short title.—This Act may be called the High Courts (Seals) Act, 1950.**

**2. Seals of High Courts.—(1) Every High Court in a [1][State] shall have and use, as occasion may**

arise, a seal bearing a device and impression of the Asoka capital within an exergue or label surrounding
the same, with the following inscriptions at convenient places, namely, “THE SEAL OF THE HIGH
COURT AT (or OF) ..............”, followed by the name of the seal of the High Court or the name of the
State, as the case may be, and “Satyameva Jayate” in Devanagari script.

(2) Every Court of the Judicial Commissioner for a [2][Union territory] shall have and use, as occasion

may arise, a seal similar to the seal of a High Court in a [3]* * * State, but with the first inscription reading
“THE SEAL OF THE JUDICIAL COMMISSIONER'S COURT FOR .......................” followed by the
4[name of the Union territory].

(3) The provisions of this shall supersede any provision contrary thereto or inconsistent therewith

contained in any Letters Patent, Order, direction or other law relating to the use of seals by High Courts.

**3. [Repeal of Ordinance 13 of 1950.]—Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1957 (36 of 1957)**

_s. 2 and the First Schedule._

1. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 3) Order, 1956, for “Part A State or Part B State”.
2. Subs., ibid., for “Part C State”.
3. The word and letter “Part A” omitted, ibid.
4. Subs., ibid., for “name of the State”.

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