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Contempt Of Court Is A Special Jurisdiction To Be Exercised Sparingly And With Caution
The judiciary is the guardian of the rule of law and is the central pillar of the democratic State. In our country, the ...
Section 6, Hindu Succession Act- Vineeta Sharma vs. Rakesh Sharma:- Removing Gender Bias
The term 'Coparcenary' is a much narrower body than a joint family, and consists of only those persons who have taken by...
Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 : Preliminary Assessment Evaluation: A Two-Tier Process
Be that as it may, as could be seen from the above said provision, the learned Sessions Judge or the Special Judge or th...
Preliminary Assessment Under Juvenile Justice (Care And Protection Of Children) Act, 2015 : A Sword Or Shield
Now the board has to do preliminary assessment keep above factor in mind. To come out with the conclusion board may take...
Vineeta Sharma vs. Rakesh Sharma: Clearing The Last Hurdle Towards Gender Equality In Hindu Law
3. It is proposed to remove the discrimination as contained in section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 by giving equ...
Land In West Bengal
In our law colleges in West Bengal there is not a single paper to understand the various units of the land in West Benga...
Betting In Sports
In India, sports betting's legal status is not clear. Hence, licenses for sport wagering have been given to private oper...
Nip The Evil In The Bud- Says Order 7 Rule 11
Checking of Plaint by the Court is essentially a formal pre-admission scrutiny of the pleadings filed in the Indian law ...
An Analysis Of Faridkot Ruler Property Dispute And How The HC Upholds The Verdict
On 01.06.2020, the Hon'ble Punjab & Haryana High Court finally adjudicated the 28 years long dispute over FARIDKOT RULER...
Principle Of Res-Judicata-The Backbone Of Code Of Civil Procedure 1908
Res-Judicata and Res-Sub Judice- Res-Judicata under Sec-11 of the Code of Civil Procedure,1908 is bar on the matter and ...
The Rule is Specific Performance - Unless
The Indian Contract Act, 1872, regulates the law relating to contracts in India, and is the key Act formulating contract...
Joint Hindu Family, Ancestral and Coparcenery Property
Hindus were governed by Shastric and Customary laws which varied from region to region and sometimes it varied in the sa...
Transferee Pendent Lite Viz A Viz Lis Pendence
A serious action for disobedience of the provisions of section 52 under order 39 rule 2 A CPC, ought to be taken by impo...
Stare Decisis - The Principle Of Precedents And Its Practice In India
The principle of binding nature of precedents is known as Stare decisis et non quieta movere. Courts have developed this...
A Critical Analysis Of Limitation Viz. A Viz Claim Of Inheritance
It is settled principle of law that fraud/misrepresentation vitiate every action. In case, one co-heir prepares forged a...
Eclipse Of Rule Of Law In The Aftermath Of The Police Encounters Of The Gangster Vikas Dubey And His Allies - Now Imperative Upon The Apex Court, Human Rights Commissions, Parliamentarians And The Intelligentsia To Bring The System Back On Rails
So the Apex Court is expected to bring the system on rails without in any manner being deflected by the strong public op...
To `Will' Willfully
A Will so executed by the testator is liable to be revoked or altered anytime, till the time the executant is alive and ...
Government's decision to Decriminalize Section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act is Right?
In fact the main object of said amendment Act was to promote confidence in Manufactures, Industrials Units and Traders a...
Boundary Dispute And Its Resolution
No person other than a Revenue Officer (or retired Revenue Officer) not below the rank of a Field Kanungo should usually...
Stay "off" the Suit- Says Res Sub Judice
The word `shall', as used in the body of section 10, makes it mandatory for the court to stay the subsequently institute...
Codified Laws (Evolution & Transition)
It has its roots or origin in England and travelled to India with the infiltration of the East India Company. The unifor...
The Punjab Rent Act 1995 : Treading On Thin Ice
Under the Indian Constitution, the enactment and implementation of rent control laws is the responsibility of the indivi...
E-Pharmacy & The Legal Framework
The Government of India came up with proposed amendments by notifying draft of certain rules further to Drugs & Cosmetic...
"Passing Off" Intellectual Property - by not so intellectuals
A business can protect its goodwill using the law of passing off against misrepresentations made by other businesses and...
Courts In India : Divided By English As A Common Language
"i) Language is a highly emotional issue for the citizens of any nation. It has a great unifying force and is a powerful...
Note on Hindu Succession - Manuscript by B.V. Jigjinni
As noted earlier, coparcener-ship is a status which is created by law. It has to be created by a statute. It did not exi...
Right to be Forgotten - Indian Perspective
Google form asks people to select one of the twenty-eight counties that make up the European Union, as well as Iceland, ...
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 is one of the best examples of Modern-day Codified Laws
Owing to Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, the Government of India by bring an Ordinance inserting Section 10A, suspending fil...
Rights Of Women Under Hindu Succession Act 1956 : Justice A Task Ahead
After facing a lot of criticism on the Hindu Women's Right to Property Act, the Parliament decided to come up with an im...
Commercial Courts an Overview
The proviso goes on to state that an appeal shall lie from such orders passed by the Commercial Division of the High Cou...
International Law : Historical Development and Future
Under the Peace Treaty of Versailles in 1919, for the first time, an international body was set up for maintaining peace...
The Web of Web Series - A legal perspective
However, there is no mechanism to regulate the content of Digital Media. Hence, Digital Platforms are producing, broadca...
Article 370 : A Diplomacy
Bharat, incredible country has gone through many difficulties. When an organ was separated from Bharat in 1947, so many ...
Section 6, Hindu Succession Act- Resolved Yet Unsolved Possibilities
The basic concept of coparcenary prior to the amendment of 2005 in Hindu Succession Act was that only male members of a ...
Execution Of A Decree : All You Need To Know About
The term "execution" has not been defined in the code. In its widest sense, the expression "execution" signifies the enf...
Open up the gates, Mi Lords!
During the recent long drawn out lock down, there were two visuals that I missed the most; one seeing Virat Kohli or Roh...