law: Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 
  1. Short title 
  This Act may be called the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.
  Local extent, saving of usage relating to hundis, etc.,
  
  commencement: It extends 1to 2[the whole of India 3[* * *]]; but nothing herein
  
  contained affects the 4[Indian Paper Currency Act, 1871 (3 of 1871)], section
  
  21, or affects any local usage relating to any instrument in an oriental
  
  language:
  PROVIDED  that such usages may be excluded by any words
  
  in the body of the instrument, which indicate an intention that the legal relations
  
  of the parties thereto shall be governed by this Act; and it shall come into
  
  force on the first day of March, 1882.