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April 19, 2022

RACISM AND AMERICAN SOCIETY
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It is against law if someone is treated unfairly because of  his race, skin colour, ancestry, nationality or ethnic background. However, if we look to the past we will find a long line of racist laws that were once prevalent in many societies and widely accepted by people. American society is an example of such…

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BOOK REVIEW: SYCAMORE ROW
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Jack Brigance is back in a long awaited sequel to the ‘A Time to Kill’. The book, set in early 1980s, has been amiably named after the sycamore trees which play a significant role from the start and in the end. The story begins three years after the events of the preceding novel, it begins…

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SPECIFIC TORTS
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NUISANCE: The word nuisance has been driven from the French word “nuire”. “Nocere” in the legal sence its means “annoyance” or “harm” or “disturbance”. MEANING Peacefully enjoy one’s own property is legal right of an individual. But everyone must endure limited degree of noise, dust, smell, smoke, vibration, the influents etc. from his neighbor. It’s…

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Civil Appeals: General Provisions
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Introduction The expression ‘appeal’ or ‘appeals’ is nowhere defined under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. In the Black’s Law Dictionary an “Appeal” is defined as, “The complaint to a superior court of an injustice done, or error committed by an inferior one, whose judgment or decision the court above is called upon to correct, or reverse.” Further,…

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Legal history: Radha Charan case
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A) 1773 regulating actPrior to the introduction of the 1773 regulating act there existed company courts in the case of Calcutta which was brought by Warren Hastings namely the mofussil and Sadar courts. 1773 regulating act was introduced not with the purpose of a better administration, but rather to regulate the affairs of the East…

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RACISM AND AMERICAN SOCIETY
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It is against law if someone is treated unfairly because of his race, skin colour, ancestry, nationality or ethnic background. However, if we look to the past we will find a long line of racist laws that were once prevalent in many societies and widely accepted by people. American society is an example of such…

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