We have noted that though the Bombay High Court had granted stay to the transfer of pending adoption matters to the District Magistrate, by directing that ongoing cases shall continue in the Court, in ...

under the Act is for a mediation agreement to be executed in writing to submit to mediation. Thus, the mediation contemplated by the Mediation Act is not compulsory but a consensual mediation.

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Section 22 of the Hindu Succession Act provides right of preemption in favour of heirs of a deceased Hindu inter se amongst the Class-I legal heirs, in case where the owner dies i ...

Section 19 of the Act provides for the maintenance of "widowed daughter-in-law" of the deceased Hindu. It simply contemplates that a Hindu wife is entitled to be maintained after the death of her ...

Section 141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act deals with vicarious liability when the drawer of the dishonoured cheque is a company or firm, not a natural person. It says that along with the company, ...

Section 15(1) lays down the general order of succession to the property of a Hindu female dying intestate. It applies to property that was her absolute property, meaning property vested in her fully ...

The parties to an appeal shall not be entitled to produce additional evidence, whether oral or documentary, in the Appellate Court. But if-- (a) the Court from whose decree the appeal is preferred has ...

SCC 791, held that while deciding bail, the court should apply the triple or tripod test, namely: whether the accused is likely to flee from justice, whether he may tamper with evidence or influence ...

As regards jointness, it is not in dispute that the property has devolved on three sons by virtue of will executed by their father. The will demarcates the portion allotted to each son. There is a ...

A retracted confession is not to be rejected merely because it is retracted, but the court must examine it with great caution. The first test is whether the confession was voluntary and truthful, free ...