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All Contracts Are Agreements, But All Agreements Are Not Contracts

Introduction Between 1526 and 1707, the Muslim rule in India judged all contractual matters using the Mohammedan Law of Contract wherein contracts like indemnity (tamin), bailment (kafalat), marriage (nikah) and partnership (shirkat) existed under the law. Provisions under Mohammedan Law of Contract, in the matters of trade, exchange, contractual agreements were applied to Muslim and non-Muslim […]

The Indian Contract Act, 1872, and Agreements Declared Void Under It

Introduction Sir W. Erle (W. M. James after Erle’s retirement), Lord Sherbrooke, Sir Edward Rayan, Robert Lowe, J. M. Macleod and Justice Wills (John Henderson after Wills’s retirement) constituted the 3rd Indian Law Commission on 2nd December 1861, under the direction of Lord Romilly.[1] Over the next 18 years, the commission was tasked with codifying laws […]

The Writ of Habeas Corpus

Introduction The Constitution of a country serves a multi-fold purpose: The Constitution allows the citizens of the country to break away from their past, which includes political independence from not only the socio-politico-economic and intellectual control but also the political vision and ideology of the preceding form of government: totalitarianism, authoritarianism, monarchism, dictatorship, imperialism, autocratic, […]

Advocates & Health

Introduction At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as the Rio+20 Conference, held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, a process was spearheaded to build on the existing Millennium Development Goals as a part of the Post-2015 Development Agenda; consequently, a 30-member Open Working Group was established by the United Nations […]

L&L Partners knock the Delhi HC doors again, mediation aborted.

Partners Rajiv Luthra and Mohit Saraf, L&L Partners Knock the Delhi HC doors again after calling off the mediation after it faced quite a few hurdles. Senior Advocate Sriram Panchu who was the mediator between this high-profile partner banter, submitted the mediation report to the Delhi HC on 2nd November, 2020. Delhi HC’s order for mediation […]

INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925

According to some estimates, Indian emigration is the largest in the world, with approximately more than 30 million people of Indian origin leading their life outside the country. Many of these people maintain some connection with India through their nationality or ownership of assets. In accordance with this global estate and succession planning universally involves […]

Alienation of Property

Alienation means transfer of property such as gifts, sales and mortgages. Alienations have added importance in Hindu law neither the Karta nor any other coparcener of the family have the full power of alienation over joint Hindu property or over  his interest in joint Hindu family property in alienations there are various subject of alienations such […]

Imposition of unfair trade practices by Google Play Store for favouring GPay: CCI orders investigation

After anonyms informants came forward, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) ordered a Director General (DG) probe. The investigation concerns the allegations made by the informants that Google by favouring Google Pay app over other payment applications. It does so via the dominance and utmost control over the Play Store and the Android Operating System. […]

Petitions challenging the abolition of Article 370 moves the apex court seeking an early hearing

Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference (JKPC), the political party in the J&K has filed an application with the Supreme Court of India. This application concerns moving up the hearing of the petitions filed questioning the abolition of A.370 from the Constitution. The political party is headed Sajad Gane Lone who filed the plea through its […]