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Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881

Section 130, NI Act: Cheque bearing ''not negotiable''

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 130 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, in the Act's own words.

The section

130. Cheque bearing ''not negotiable''.

A person taking a cheque crossed generally or specially, bearing in either case the words "not negotiable," shall not have, and shall not be capable of giving, a better title to the cheque than that which the person from whom he took it had.

The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.

Sources

  1. India Code: Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, section 130 (read 1 September 2026)

The Act's own words, from India Code. If the text here differs from the Gazette, the Gazette governs; write to contact@pundora.in and it will be corrected and dated.