Elements of Indian Legal System

Basic Concept

Concept of a Legal System

Concept, sources and functions of Law

The divisions of Law

Major Legal systems of the contemporary world and their distinctive features

Place of Indian Legal System among the major legal systems of the world

State and Non-state legal systems

Using Law Library

Reading a legislation

Reading a case

Distinctions between ratio decidendi and obiter-dictum

Finding the ratio-decidendi of a case

Major components of Indian Legal System

Law making agencies - Legislatures and Courts

Nyaya Panchayats

Lok Adalats

Law enforcement agencies

Legal Profession

Legal Aid

Legal Education

Critical Values of Indian Legal System

Constitutional Governments

Separation of Powers

Rule of Law

Democracy

Secularism

Conceptions of Law in Pre-Colonial India

Classical Hindu Conceptions of Law

Islamic Conceptions of Law

Tribal or indigenious conceptions of law

Administration of Justice in Colonial India

A brief sketch of administration of Justice from 1612-1726

Mayors Court of 1726

Regulating Act and Supreme Court at Calcutta

Judicial innovations and reforms of Warren Hestings

Judicial innovations and reforms of Lord Cornwallis

Establishment of High courts and their writ jurisdiction

Process of Introduction of English Law in India

Justice Equity and Good Conscience

Trial of Nandkumar, Patna Case, and Cossijurah Case

Anglicisation of Hindu and Islamic Law

Development of Law through Codification

The process of Codification: Charter of 1833; law commissions in colonial period

Background and principles of great codes

Assessment of the colonial codes and legal system by the law reforms commissions since independence

Nationalist Struggle and Constitutional Reforms

Minto Morley Reforms of 1909

The Govt of India Act 1919

The Govt of India Act 1935

 

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