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SURVIVAL OF FITTEST

The word was coined by English sociologist and philosopher Herbert Spencer in his book Principles of Biology, published in 1864.  Also, the term “survival of the fittest” was coined by British naturalist Charles Darwin in the fifth edition of “On the Origin of Species” (published in 1869), which argued that creatures that are best adapted…

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ASYLUM STOPS WHERE EXTRADITION BEGINS

The liberty of a state to accord asylum to a person overlaps to a certain extent with its liberty to refuse extradition or rendition of that person at the request of some other state, an overlapping best seen in the grant, commonly, of asylum to political offenders, who correspondingly are not as a rule extraditable.…

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PREVENTIVE DETENTION

First of all, the word detention implies that when due to some criminal charges, a state or private citizen lawfully hold a person by removing his freedom for that time. Detention is of two types: 1.Punitive detention: in this type of detention, the person is arrested by the police after committing the any offence. And…

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Sociology of Science : G.S. Aurora

This article is authored by G.S. Aurora. In the introductory part three basic questions posed by social scientist are discussed which are as follows – the first centres around the structure and function of relationships within or between groups or categories, the second is concerned with the relationship between an individual’s biography and the group’s…

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TEMPORARY INJUNCTION AND INTERIM ORDERS

Introduction For the purpose of administration of justice among the parties every court is deemed toposses all such powers as it is necessary to do complete justice to the parties concerned. Aninjunction is a judicial process whereby a party is required to do, or to refrain from doing,any particular act. It is a remedy in…

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Pardoning Power

Pardon means the formal act of liberating someone. Every country has the right of pardoning. The court doesn’t take any emotions or history into consideration it strictly follows the law for the adjudication. Pardoning power proves to be an aid for correcting judicial errors. In a nutshell it means to consider the case beyond the…

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