The Advocates Act, 1961
Every Bar Council shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire and hold property, both movable and immovable, and to contract, and may be the name by which it is known sue and be sued.
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Official India Code text: The Advocates Act, 1961, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1631/4/A1961-25.pdf, 325,211 bytes, sha256 e944a8c6c4a0caa2...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser, with the body-height footnote filter (D-059). Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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