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Clear explanations of Indian law, written for students: concepts, provisions and the cases that shaped them.
About this subject ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) A crime may take a few seconds, but what follows can last for years: information to the police, investigation and perhaps arrest, production before a Magistrate, bail, a report in court, a decision whether to put the person on trial, eviden…
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About this subject ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (00:00) Banking Law (the law and practice of banking in India) runs from why banks exist and why the law watches them so closely, to newer questions such as card frauds, online banking and FinTech. Behind every deposit, cheque, loan and online tra…
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About this subject ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) Example Brothers Prince and Farhan inherit their father's textile business in Cuttack and quarrel over the shop, the bank accounts and the brand name. Suit and counter-suit follow. Ten years later the case is pending, the business has shrun…
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About this subject ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) Administrative Law is studied in seven units, from what administrative law is and why it grew, to how a citizen can get information, complain against corruption and hold public bodies to account. It is at work whenever a person applies for…
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Mahr (dower) is the wife's own right under Muslim law. These notes answer five questions in order:
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Issue: Can the government choose judges even when the Chief Justice disagrees?
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These quick notes cover 30 core concepts of the B.N.S.S., taken one at a time: the role of the three new criminal codes, classification of offences, F.I.R. and complaint, investigation, arrest and the rights of the arrested person, confessions, search and forensic safeguards, bail (regular, anticip…
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About this topic ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) These notes cover the 57 most important cases of Indian Constitutional Law . They are the cases that keep coming up in LL.B. examinations, in judiciary examinations and in every serious discussion of constitutional law. Every case is studied…
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A person can sell the trees on his land without selling the land itself. Whether the transfer is of movable or immovable property depends on what exactly is being transferred .
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About this topic ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) Maintenance under Hindu law is spread across three different sources, and most exam problems on the topic are really asking which remedy (which "door") a particular claimant should use. The topic is best understood relationship by relationshi…
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About this topic ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (00:00) These notes cover guardianship under Muslim law: the mother's right of custody ( hizanat ), guardianship of the child's person (including marriage), guardianship of the child's property, and the court's power to act for the child's welfare u…
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About this topic ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) Maintenance under Muslim law deals with who must support whom, the legal routes for enforcing that duty, and how a Muslim wife's right changes during the marriage, during iddat and after iddat. The topic runs through the Shah Bano judgment, t…
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