Transfer of Property Act, 1882 · Chapter VIII: Of Transfers of Actionable Claims
Section 136: Incapacity of officers connected with Courts of Justice
In plain words
No judge, lawyer or court officer may buy, deal in or agree to receive any share of an actionable claim, and no court will enforce a claim dealt with in this way at their instance.
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Official text
No Judge, legal practitioner, or officer connected with any Court of Justice shall buy or traffic in, or stipulate for, or agree to receive, any share of, or interest in, any actionable claim, and no Court of Justice shall enforce, at his instance, or at the instance of any person claiming by or through him, any actionable claim so dealt with by him as aforesaid.]
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