civil law

In day to day life we across number documents in connection with lease hold rights ,sale transactions,gifts and mortgages.These docuemtns are governed by the provisions of TRANSFER OF PROPERTY ACT ' in india. As per the provisons of TRANSFER OF PROOPERTY ACT  under section 3 of the act certain documents are specified to be compulsorily attestable by two or more wittnesses.Thes..

As per the recent amendment to the Hindu succession act.  woman will have the equal share in the ancestral properties of her family  She becomes the coparcener.  She will not get any share if there is already partition between the family members.  even if the girl is married she will get the share if there is no partition..

The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005   STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 has amended and codified the law rel..

Agreement, bond, indenture, deal, are some of the terms which are almost known to all but is it known that these terms implicate towards “contracts”. All the aforesaid are nothing but the synonyms for the term contract. These contracts have been evident s..

The law's objective is to help the people. But more often than not, legalities of end up confusing the public rather than help them. NR Chandran demystifies the Land Acquisition Act     The Land Acquisition Act has been enacted to provide for com..

The expression 'unfair trade practice' is one which is elaborately defined in the Consumer Protection Act and the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act. However, much of the litigation in both forums centres around it. When the MRTP Commission fades away, this phrase will remain only in the consumer law. The Competition Act, which is yet to be implemented in full, does not deal with UTP d..

Law has to be interpreted according to the intention of the legislature and in consonance with the needs of the time .To enforce equitable justice where legislature and executive are found lacking .   People can not left  remediless because the act does not provide for a remedy.Court can interfere to inter..

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SHOULD LAWYERS BE BROUGHT UNDER THE COPRA Sujata Iyengar* Gautam Narasimhan * A three Judge bench of the Supreme Court in Indian Medical Association v. y.p. Shanta1 affirmed the growing activity in the field of consumerism and consumer protection. The Court in this momentous decision resolved along standing confusion2 by declaring medical practitioners were subject to the rules and mechanis..

By a process of judicial interpretation the provisions of S. 375, IPC cannot be altered so as to include all forms of penetration such as penile/vaginal penetration, penile/oral penetration, penile/anal penetration, finger/vagina and finger/anal penetration and object /vaginal penetration within its ambit S. 375 uses the e..

There has been an urgent need in India to reform various sectors of law and torts continue to be ignored, mostly for the reasons of high costs of tort litigation. Tort is the area of law where in response to a private or civil wrong or i..

Injunction matters   :1.    One very peculiar problem is phased in injunction matters where interlocutary order has been passed in favour of plaitiff and suit has been dissmised in default. What will be the fate of that interlocutary stay order after restoration of the suit? General impression is that all orders..

held by allahabad highcourt : 2005(59) ALR 413 :that even though there has been a entery in favour of the state in revenue records without taking action to take actual possession u/s 10(5) ,10(6). actual owner can not be deprived of the benifit of the REPEAL ACT of 1999.  ..

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