Contents:
Preface;
Part-I Comprehensive Readings (Study Material);
1. Constitutional Law;
Preamble 3;
2. The Executive;
President of India • Cabinet and Prime Minister 6;
3. The Legislature 9;
4. The Judiciary 11;
5. Emergency Provisions
Failure of Constitutional Machinery in a State • Financial Emergency 14;
6. Fundamental Rights 18;
7. Union and its Territories 29;
8. Union: State Relations
Legislative Powers • Financial Relations • Administrative Relations 31;
9. Directive Principles of State Policy 37;
10. Amending the Constitution 39;
11. Rights and Duties;
Classification of Rights • Legal Rights and Duties : Correlation 41;
12. Legal Personality;
Legal Status of Unborn Children 44;
13. Jurisprudence;
Analytical School of Law • Historical School • Philosophical School • Realistic
School 46;
14. Company Law;
Corporate Personality • Registration and Incorporation • Articles of Association • Statement in Lieu of Prospectus • Shareholders • Directors • Shares • Meetings • Oppression and Mis-management • Winding-up of Company • Offer and Acceptance • Consideration • Capacity of Parties • Free Consent • Discharge of Contract • Quasi-Contracts • Remedies for Breach of Contract • Indemnity
and Guarantee • Bailment 49;
15. Liability 68;
The story of Remedial Liability • Theory of Penal Liability • Vicarious Liability;
16. Ownership and Possession
Ownership • Various Types • Possession • Possession in Fact and Law 71;
17. Law of Torts/
Position of India • Exception to the Rule • Vicarious Liability of the State 73;
18. Law of Crimes/
Nature and Definition of Offences • Elements of Crime • General Exceptions • Common Intentions and Common Object · · Distinction between Common Intention and Object • Offences against Women 82;
19. The Jndian Penal" Code;
Introduction· General Explanations • Of Punishments • General Exceptions;
• Of Abetment • Criminal Conspiracy • Of Offences against the State • Of Offences Relating to the Army, Navy and Air Force • Of Offences against the Public Tranquillity • Of Offences by or Relating to Public Servants • Of Offences Relating to Elections • Of Contempts of the Lawful Authority of Public Servants • Of False Evidence and Offences against Public Justice • Of Offences Relating to Coin and Government Stamps • Of Offences Relating to Weights and Measures • Of Offences Affecting the Public Health, Safety, Convenience Decency and Morals· Of Offences Relating to Religion • Of Offences Affecting the Human Body • Of Offences against Property • Of Offences Relating to Documents and to Property Marks • Of the Criminal Breach of Contracts of Service • Of Offences Relating to Marriage • Of Cruelty by Husband or Relatives of Husband • Of Defamation • Of Criminal Intimidation, Insult and Annoyance • Of Attempts to Commit offences Preliminary • Of the Relevancy of Facts • Facts which Need not be Proved • Of Oral Evidence • Of Documentary Evidence • Of hl-te Exclusion of Oral by Documentary Evidence • Of the Burden of Proof • Estoppel • Of Witnesses • Of the Examination of Witnesses • Of Improper Admission and Rejection of Evidence 89;
Part-II Objective Questions with Answers;
Group-l;
Group-2;
Group-3;
Group-4;
Group-5;
Group-6;
Group-7;
Group-8;
Group-9;
Group-lO;
Group-ll;
Group-12;
Group-13;
Group-14;
Group-IS;
Group-16;
Group-17;
Group-18;
Group-19;
Group-20;
Part-III The Guidelines;
The Guidelines;
(Sample Questions for Paper-III) 465;
Part-IV Additional Matter;
1. Law of Contract;
Defining the Contract • The Agreement • Fundamental Aspects of Contract;
• Offer and Acceptance • The Acceptance • Way of Making An Acceptance • Medium of Offer and Acceptance • Simplifying Process • Direct Contact between Parties • Revoking Offer and Acceptance • Revoking the Acceptance • The Consideration • Consideration under Privity • Some Deviations • Other Deviations. Capability to Contract • The Minor • Approval of Minor 's Agreement • Advantageous Contracts • Apprenticeship Contract • Excessive Influence 489 • Recession Right • Act of Partnership • Combinations of Trade • The Aberractions • Transactions of Speculative Nature • Transactions of Collateral Nature • Defining Contingent Contract • Rules to Enforce Contingent Contract • Acting upon Contracts • Various Performances • Essentials of a Valid Tender • Ways of Discharging a Contract'· Assigning Contracts • Act of Dissolving and Frustrating
Contracts. Scope of Quasi Contract • Duties of Finder of Good • Notable Points;
2. International Law
Defining the International Law • Oppenheims' Definition • Grounds for International Law • International Conventions • Law-Making Treaties • International Customs • Customary Rules • Judicial or Arbitral Tribunal • Juristic Works • General Principle of Law • Other Grounds • Jus Cogens' Principle • Acknowledging the Law • The Recognition • Recognition Constitutive Theory and Principle • Theories of Declaratory and Evidentory • Ways of Acknowledgment • Case of Arantzazu Mendi • Effects of Recognition • Holding back the Acknowledgment • Retroactive Impacts of Recognition • Theories of Acknowledgment • Succession Procedures • Theories of Continuity • Theories with Negative Effects • Theories Based on Positive Practices • Marxist Theory
• Contract Succession and Contract • UNO's and Other Global Organisations • UN's Goal and Aims • Organs ofthe Unitec Nations • Security Council • Action and Powers • Pacific Settlement of Disputes • Trusteeship Council • The Secretaria.t • International Court ofJustice • Initial Objection • Advisory Remarks • Human Rights • General Articles • Rights under Civil and Political Ambit .Socio-economi<: and Cultural Rights • Final Articles • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.