Transfer of Property Act Section 136 — Incapacity of officers connected with Courts of Justice

CHAPTER VII OF GIFTS

General

Summary

Judges, lawyers, and court officials are not allowed to buy, trade in, or agree to receive any part of a legal claim that can be enforced through a lawsuit. If they do so anyway, no court will help them or anyone acting on their behalf to enforce that claim.

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.