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INTRODUCTION The first enactment of the kind was Lord Brougham’s Act (13 and 14 Vict., c. 21). The provisions of that statute were adopted to India, and somewhat simplified, by General Clauses Act (1 of 1868), and the General Clauses Act, 1887 (1 of 1887) was a further extension of the same principle. It was…
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“Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments …. It is required in the performance of our most basic responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today, it is the principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him…
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“The Directive Principles are like the Instruments of Instructions which were issued to the Governor-General and the Governors of the Colonies by the British Government under the Government of India Act 1935. What are called Directive Principles is merely another name for the Instruments of Instructions. The only difference is that they are instructions to…
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INTRODUCTIONThe Trade and Merchandise Marks Act was passed in the year 1958, since then it has been amended several times. Moreover in view of developments in trading and commercial practices, increasing globalisation of trade and industry, the need to encourage investment flows and transfer of technology and the need to simplify and harmonize trade mark…
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“Advocates or lawyers have many capacities- one being Officers of the Court. Therefore, they should not, while acting as counsel or advocates or their capacity as advocates, undertake or volunteer to solemnize marriages. That can well result in Advocates chambers or offices turning out to be matrimonial “establishment”- a consequence never intended- or perhaps never…
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“I am convinced that the real remedy is inter-marriage. Fusion of blood can alone create the feeling of being kith and kin, and unless this feeling of kinship, of being kindred, becomes paramount, the separatist feeling—the feeling of being aliens—created by Caste will not vanish. Where society is already well-knit by other ties, marriage is…
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It may be a valuable contribution to the cause of justice if counsel screen wholly fraudulent and frivolous litigation refusing to be beguiled by dubious clients. And remembering that an advocate is an officer of justice he owes it to society not to collaborate in shady actions. The Bar Council of India, we hope will…
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