Bailment vs. Pledge Bailment and Pledge are two types of contracts that can get confusing. Bailment is defined as per Section 148, Indian Contract Act 1872 as the transfer of movable goods from one party to another party for any specific purposes such as service, promise or need[1] whereas, pledge is defined in Section 172…
WHO IS A HOLDER According to Section 8 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, the “holder” of a promissory note, bill of exchange or cheque means any person who is entitled in his own name to the possession thereof and to receive or recover the amount due thereon from the parties thereto. Let’s understand the…
In general, agency between a husband and his wife does not exist, unless it has been expressly or implicitly agreed that either of them would do specific acts or transactions as the agent of the other. For example, if X asks his wife Y to buy a shirt on credit, Y’s agency is express. On…
People around us are getting tortured because of their caste, sex, and colour of their skin or of because who they are or who they love or like. LGBT people are one of them. LGBT means Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Intersex people. People in the LGBT community are fighting for equal rights and acceptance…
1. Duty to execute mandate: This duty dictates that the agent is required to carry out the mandateof the principle, and any failure to do so would make the agent absolutely liable for the principal’s loss. Several cases such as Pannalal Jankidas v Mohanlal explain the same- where a commission agent was under instruction to…
KULBHUSHAN JADHAV (INDIA V/S PAKISTAN) Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav (additionally spelled Kulbhushan Yadav, asserted nom de plume Hussain Mubarak Patel) (conceived 16 April 1970) is an Indian public. It is asserted by the Pakistani government that he was captured in the Pakistani territory of Balochistan on charges of psychological oppression and spying for India’s insight office,…
Decriminalisation has the potential to reduce the burden on police and the criminal justice system. It also removes the negative consequences (including stigma) associated with criminal convictions for drug use Narendra Modi-led central government is likely to list a Bill to decriminalise addiction to drugs. The proposed amendment is expected to amend the Narcotic Drugs…
WHAT IS ARBITRATION Arbitration is a type of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and it is used when the parties fail to settle their dispute through litigation. Contrary to litigation, in Arbitration, the parties are at freedom to choose their own tribunal (arbitrator(s)). The decision of the Arbitrator(s) is binding on both the parties and enforceable…
Transparency in Public Administration would go to mean that any citizen of India either has fundamental right or a statutory right to have access to information about the state affairs. Furthermore, denial of access to any information to the public by the public authorities, without proper reasons, would be offence under the law. But would…
The phrase “source of law” has several connotations. It may be the authority which issues rules of conduct which are recognized by Courts as binding. In this context, ‘source of law’ means ‘the maker of law’. It may mean the social conditions which inspires the making of law for the governance of the conditions. In…
