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Syllabus for Legal Language

Semester 5 · Third Year · 4 credits

1 Legal Concepts - Law, Custom, Justice, Right, Duty, Wrong, Remedy, Fact, Person, Offence, State, Plaint, Complaint, Suit, Affidavit, Judgment, Appeal, Review, Revision, Reference, Writ, Stay Order, Injunction, Adjournment, Cause of Action, Issue, Charge, Bail, Ex-Parte, Discharge, Acquittal, Conviction, Legal heirs, Legal Representative, Power of Attorney, International Law, Arbitration, Jurisdiction, Amicus Curiae.
1.2 Legal Maxims - Actus de nemini facit injuriam
Salus Populi Est Suprema Lex
Nemo Tenetur Sepisum Accusare
Leges postpriores priores contrarias abrogant
Nova constituito futris formam imponere debet non praetertis.
Noscitur a sociis
Expressio unis est exclusio alterius
Vigilantibus, non domientibus, jura subveniunt
Quod ab initio non valet in tractu temporis non convalesscit
Nullus commodum capere potest de injuria sua propria
Cessante retione legis cessat ipsa lex
Acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta
Domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium
Nemo est haeres viventis
Ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantia lex non excusat

2.1 Law Reports, Magazines and References to Case Laws Law Reports Law Magazines Explanation of citations The search of a case law Abbreviations of law Reports
2.2 Statutes (Enactments) - Meaning and Classification
2.3 Commencement of Statutes- Prospective application, Retrospective effect, Repeal of Statutes, Provisions dealing with repeal under the General Clauses Act.
2.4 General English: Essay writing, comprehension, and rules of grammar Active-passive, direct and indirect speech, degrees of comparison, kinds of sentences- interrogative, exclamatory, imperative, assertive, positive, and negative Question tags.

3.1 Legislative Material - Internal Aids -Parts of a statute and their function in interpretation of a statute – Short and long titles, preamble, schedules, marginal headings, parts, and their captions, chapters and their captions, marginal and section-headings, Definition‘s clause and types of definitions, Explanations, exceptions, illustrations, and provisos, Language, and punctuation, non-obstante clause and saving clause.
External Aids - External Aids to the interpretation of a statute – Dictionaries, Translations, Travaux Preparatiories, Statutes in pari materia, Contemporanea Exposito, Debates, and Reports.
3.2 Judicial material – Ratio and guidelines of courts in the following cases, minority, and majority judgements:
D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal - AIR1997 SC610
M.C. Mehta V. Union of India - AIR1987SC965
Vishakha v. State of Rajasthan - AIR1997SC3011
Joseph Shine v. Union of India - AIR2018SC4898
Aruna Shanbaug v. Union of India – AIR2011SC1290
Young Lawyers Association v. the State of Kerala – AIR2018SC1690

4.1 Rules of interpretation of Statutes – Literal, Mischief and Golden rule of interpretation Secondary Rules or Subsidiary Rules of Interpretation- Noscitur a Sociis, Ejusdem Generis, Reddando Singula Singulis, Interpretation with reference to the subject matter and purpose – Restrictive and beneficial construction, Taxing statutes, Penal statutes and Welfare legislation, Interpretation of directory and mandatory provisions, Interpretation of substantive and adjunctively statutes.
4.2 Presumptions in Statutory interpretation – Statutes are valid, Statutes are territorial in operation, Presumption as to jurisdiction, Presumption against what is inconvenient or absurd, Presumption against intending injustice, Presumption against impairing obligations or permitting advantage from one‘s own wrong.
4.3 General Clauses Act, 1897

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