Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• A body of rules of conduct of binding legal force and effect, prescribed, recognized, and enforced by
controlling authority.
• A bunch of rules established by a governing authority to establish and maintain peace and order.
• Uniformity
• Conformity with Principles of justice
• Impartiality
• Law is remedies
• Body of rules and principles
• Rule of Conduct or procedure
• Law is territorial
What is the purpose of Law?
• Judicial Precedent/ The Judge made Laws A Precedent is a statement of law found in a judicial decision of the Superior Court, which
is to be followed by the same Court in future and also by the subordinate Courts in a
similar case.
• Customs A custom is a habitual course of conduct which is observed uniformly and voluntarily by
the people concerned.
Eg – Hindu Marriage Act, Muslim Laws.
Constitutional Law
OFFER ACCEPTANCE
• OFFER / PROPOSAL - When one person signifies to another his willingness
to do or to abstain from doing anything, with a view to obtaining the
assent of that other to such act or abstinence, he is said to make a
proposal.
• ACCEPTANCE - When the person to whom the proposal is made signifies
his assent thereto, the proposal is said to be accepted.
• PROMISE - A proposal, when accepted, becomes a promise.
• The person making the proposal is called the “promisor/ offeror”, and the
person accepting the proposal is called the “promisee/ offeree”.