While health and medicine usually look at improving and extending life, increasingly medical professionals and society are being forced to ask how far those efforts should go. Perhaps the most pressing ethical medical dilemma concerns whether an individual has the right to die. Euthanasia, or mercy killing, means the deliberate killing of a patient who is […]
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Joseph Shine v Union of India
Benjamin Carson said that “Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it”. With respect to adultery, we can say that “Father proposes and the son disposes”. In 1985 the then Chief Justice of India YV Chandrachud upheld the validity […]
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Res ipsa loquitur
“Res ipsa loquitur” is a Latin phrase that means, “the thing speaks for itself” and pertains to obvious cases of negligence. Under the common law of negligence, the res ipsa loquitur doctrine indicates that a breach of a party’s duty of care may be inferred from the events that occurred. In other words, the negligence is so […]
Q11. Write down important causes of prostitution Prostitution is generally defined as the practice of providing sexual services for money, but because it requires a buyer and a seller it can more appropriately be defined as the practice of exchanging money for sexual services Causes of prostitution Poverty and unemployment: Poverty and unemployment are seems […]
Q1. Define Criminology. Mention various causes of crime. Definition of Criminology: The law Lexicon defines it as ” the study of crimes, their nature, the causes, detection, and prevention of crimes”. Dr. Kenny defines it as “the branch of criminal science which deals with crime-causation, analysis, and prevention of crimes”. Edwin Sutherland and Donald Cressey […]
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Juvenile Justice Board
The Juvenile Justice System is radically different from the Criminal Justice System in view of the fact that the Juvenile Justice System aims to make the juvenile in conflict with the law as a useful member of the society and thus to rehabilitate them. Section 27 of the Code Of Criminal Procedure, 1973 discusses the […]
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Property Crimes
Indian Legal System > Legal Concepts > Criminology > Concept of Crime > Property Crimes In this article, we shall discuss what is meant by property crimes and various forms of property crimes. Property crimes are crimes that do not necessarily involve harm to another person. Although they may involve physical or mental harm to […]
There are a variety of criminal defense strategies that a lawyer may utilize when defending a client in a criminal case. Courts will determine legal insanity. In this article, we shall study one of the strategies called The M’Naghten Rules. Insanity is a mental defect or disease that makes it impossible for a person to know what […]
In this article, we shall study the subject matter of ownership and the modes of acquisition of ownership. The Subject Matter of Ownership: The main subject-matter of ownership consists of a material object, such as land and chattels. But ownership is by no means limited to things of this category. A man’s wealth1 may consist […]
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Characteristics of Ownership
In the previous article, we have studied the meaning of the term “ownership”. In this article, we shall study the characteristics of ownership. According to Salmond, ownership denotes a relation between a person and an object forming the subject-matter of his ownership. It consists of complex of rights, all of which are rights in rem, […]