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Civil Law Articles


Motor Vehicle Act, 1988: An Overview

  Kappil Cchandna   25 July 2018 at 10:46

IntroductionWith the development of the society, the law governing it also becomes sensitive to various events associated to it. There are many rash acts, which were not considered earlier as such but today, are believed to be an act of negligence an ..


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Misuse of Domestic Violence Laws: A Legislative Dynamism

  Navin Kumar Jaggi   04 July 2018 at 11:00

Misuse of Domestic Violence Laws: A Legislative Dynamism �No nation founded upon injustice can stand. From the sand enshrouded Egypt, from the marble wilderness of Athens, from every fallen, crumbling stone of once mighty Rome Comes a wail, as ..


Posted in Civil Law |   2058 Views


Compensation Claim By Way Of Cost Escalation - On Account of Prolongation of Contract Period

  Smita Singh   02 July 2018 at 13:58

Introduction When under a contract an employer entrusts works to a contractor to be carried out in a time bound manner by supplying specified material and/or by deploying resources like staff, labour, machinery etc., the employer usually undertakes r ..


Posted in Civil Law  1 comments |   3028 Views


Attesting witness: Whether bound by contents of the document?

  Smita Singh   18 June 2018 at 10:53

IntroductionThe parties entering into a contract usually reduce the agreed terms into writing for record and affix their signatures to the document as evidence of its due execution. Often such documents, apart from signatures of the parties contain s ..


Posted in Civil Law  4 comments |   11206 Views


Live-in relationships & domestic violence act - The decisive test

  Prashanti   13 June 2018 at 12:26

The point of discussion is whether in a broken Live- in relationship, the non- maintenance of a woman would attract Section 3 of the Domestic Violence Act. Before going into detail, t ..


Posted in Civil Law |   1211 Views


Contactor's claim for damages for prolongation of work: Period of limitation applicable

  Smita Singh   12 June 2018 at 13:46

Introduction Often an employer entrusts to a contractor certain works to be carried out under a contract, in a time bound manner by deploying resources like staff, labour, machinery etc. In such cases the employer typically assumes reciprocal obliga ..


Posted in Civil Law  1 comments |   3443 Views


Effect of misrepresentation: Whether renders a document void or voidable?

  Smita Singh   07 June 2018 at 15:03

Misrepresentation as to content Section 19 of the Indian Contract Act makes an agreement consent to which is caused by misrepresentation voidable at the option of the party whose consent was so caused. A party to contract, whose consent was caused by ..


Posted in Civil Law  4 comments |   2624 Views


Proposed amendment to Specific Relief Act: Need to deal with impact of lapse of time and escalation of price in specific performance cases

  Smita Singh   31 May 2018 at 14:10

The proposed amendment to section 20 of Specific Relief ActSection 20 of the existing Specific Relief Act 1963 recognizes that grant of relief of specific performance, is discretionary. The court is not bound to grant such relief merely because it is ..


Posted in Civil Law |   1020 Views


Extent of applicability of promissory estoppel against State

  Smita Singh   28 May 2018 at 12:58

Understanding promissory estoppelThe doctrine of promissory estoppel is evolved by equity to avoid injustice and to mitigate the rigor of strict law. The doctrine is neither in the dominion of contract nor in the domain of estoppel[1]. It is based on ..


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Legal enforceability of Letter of Intent or Memorandum of Understanding

  Smita Singh   21 May 2018 at 16:41

Introduction It is not uncommon for the parties to a contract to, upon agreeing into principal/broad terms of their agreement, reduce the same into writing and call the same as Letter of Intent (LoI), Term Sheet or Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). ..


Posted in Civil Law  3 comments |   5311 Views