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List of Vocabulary

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  • An executive body to advise the government on legal reform.
The Law Commission of India recommended the amendment to Code of Criminal Procedure 1973.
  • Permitted by law.
One must act lawfully.
  • A question suggesting the answer which the person putting it wishes or expects to receive.
Leading Questions may be asked in cross examination.
  • Lack of legal capacity to perform an action due to insufficient physical and mental abilities.
The Legal Disability under the Limitation Act includes minority, insanity, idiocy.
  • A legislative body in the States and Union Territories of India.
The Legislative Assembly of Delhi consists of 70 members.
  • Legislative Council is the Upper House of the State Legislature.
At present only six states in India have Legislative Council.
  • The quality of being a legitimate child.
Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act talks of Legitimacy of Children of Void and Voidable Marriages.
  • Lawfully begotten.
A child of a void marriage is legitimate .
  • A person to whom the lease is made
A lease agreement is executed between lessor and lessee
  • A person by whom a lease is made
A lease agreement was made by lessor in favour of leese
  • The state of being bound or obliged in law or justice to do, pay, or make good something; legal responsibility.
Co-sureties are liable to contribute equally.
  • A right to keep possession of property belonging to another person until a debt owed by that person is discharged.
A has lien over the property.
  • A term given to the interest in property that lasts for a person’s life time.
A created B's life interest in his estate.
  • A law applicable only to a particular part of India
Offences are of the same kind when they are punishable with the same amount of punishment under Indian Penal or of any Local law.