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Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881

Section 97, NI Act: When party to whom notice given is dead

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 97 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, in the Act's own words.

The section

97. When party to whom notice given is dead.

when the party to whom notice of dishonour is dispatched is dead, but the party dispatching the notice is ignorant of his death, the notice is sufficient.

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 97 (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.