130. A person taking a cheque crossed generally or specially, bearing in either case the words “not negotiable,” shall not have, and shall not be capable of giving, a better title to the cheque than that which the person from whom he took it had.
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
Section 130: Cheque bearing “not negotiable”
Chapter XIV — Of Crossed Cheques
Source: official text of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.