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Hindu Law

Hindu Law, the word 'Hindu law' have to be understood in a broad sense, having regard to s. 2 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 which dealt with the applicability of that Act to any person...

Indian law

Indian law, 'Indian law' shall mean any Act, Ordin-ance, Regulation, rule (order, bye-law or other instrument) which before the commencement of the Constitution had the force of law in any Province of India or part thereof,...

Common law practitioner

Common law practitioner, practitioners in other common law jurisdictions who have for a period of not less than three years regularly exercised rights of audience in superior courts which administer law which is substantially equivalent to...

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Brehon Law

Brehon Law, the law by which Ireland was governed at the time of its conquest by Henry II.; 'a rule of right, unwritten but delivered by tradition from one to another, in which often times there...

Authorised by law

Authorised by law, the expression 'authorised by law' means sanctioned by law while 'according to law' means in conformity with law, Shankar Kerba Jadhav v. State of Karnataka, AIR 1971 SC 840 (844) [Criminal Procedure Code...

American Law

American Law. A term generally applied to the law of the United States of America which is based, in the main, on the common law of England. The law of Louisiana, however, is derived from the...

Law abiding

Abiding the law waiting for the operation of law for the enforcement of rights also abiding by the law obedient to the law as law abiding people

special law

special law 1 : local law 2 : a law that applies to a particular place or esp. to a particular member or members of a class of persons or things in the same situation but...

natural law

natural law : a body of law or a specific principle of law that is held to be derived from nature and binding upon human society in the absence of or in addition to positive law...

martial law

martial law 1 : the law applied in occupied territory by the military authority of the occupying power 2 : the law administered by military forces that is invoked by a government in an emergency when...

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