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[8] [9] [10] Apart from editing several student-oriented law books, he has authored a series of books on Company Law, Environment Law, Administrative Law, Land Laws, and The Indian Divorce Act, including the Leading Cases on the Law of Contracts. His book, Legal Language, Legal Writing & General English, is a standard text for law students as ...
Trust law in India is mainly codified in the Indian Trusts Act of 1882, which came into force on 1 March 1882. It extends to the whole of India except for the state of Jammu and Kashmir and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indian law follows principles of English law in most areas of law, but the law of trusts is a notable exception.
The Indian Supreme Court has relied on multiple Tagore Law Lectures including William O' Douglas's 1939 Lecture on comparative U.S. and Indian law, [8] Julius Jolly's 1883 lecture on the Hindu law of partition, inheritance, and adoption [9] and M.C. Setalvad's 1974 lecture on the relation between the Union and States in the Indian Constitution.
The Constitution of India is the longest written constitution for a country, containing 395 articles, 12 schedules, 105 amendments and 117,369 words.. Law in India primarily evolved from customary practices and religious prescriptions in the Indian subcontinent, to the modern well-codified acts and laws based on a constitution in the Republic of India.
The Constitution of India was first translated from English into Meitei language (officially known as Manipuri language) and published on 3 January 2019, as ভারতকী সংবিধান, in Imphal, through the collective efforts of the Government of Manipur and the Union Government of India.
Hindu law, as a historical term, refers to the code of laws applied to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs in British India. [1] [2] [3] Hindu law, in modern scholarship, also refers to the legal theory, jurisprudence and philosophical reflections on the nature of law discovered in ancient and medieval era Indian texts. [4]
Pendency of court cases in India; Penguin Books Ltd. v. India Book Distributors and Others; Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991; Pondicherry Lok Adalat; Pornography in India; Post Office Bill, 2023; Press and Registration of Periodicals Act, 2023; Public Account (India) Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024
Hindu personal laws are the laws of the Hindus as they applied during the colonial period (British Raj) of India beginning from the Anglo-Hindu Law to the post-independent secular law. The British found neither a uniform canon administering law for the diverse communities of India nor a Pope or a Shankaracharya whose law or writ applied ...