The sections below are the ones the LL.B. papers examine on this Act, with the unit that covers each and the cases decided on it. The official text is on India Code ↗.
Sections in the syllabus
s. 2
s. 2(1)
s. 2(1)(b)
s. 2(1)(d)
s. 2(1)(g)
s. 2(1)(o)
s. 2(5)
s. 2(7)
s. 2(11)
s. 2(22)
s. 2(28)
Covered in Unit 5 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 1.
s. 2(42)
s. 3
s. 6
s. 14
s. 14(1)(d)
s. 17
s. 18
s. 19
s. 24
s. 29
s. 32
s. 34
s. 35
s. 36
s. 37
s. 38
s. 39(1)(d)
s. 47
s. 48
s. 51
s. 53
s. 54(1)
s. 58
s. 64V
s. 65
s. 83
s. 84(1)
s. 84(2)
s. 87
s. 100
s. 106
s. 106(1)
s. 140
s. 147
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s. 149
s. 149(1)
s. 149(2)
s. 149(2)(a)
s. 149(7)
s. 150
Covered in Unit 5 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 1.
s. 150(2)
s. 150(5)
s. 153
s. 161
Covered in Unit 5 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 1.
s. 162
s. 163A
s. 164
Covered in Unit 6 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 2.
s. 164(2)
s. 164A
s. 164B
s. 166
Covered in Unit 6 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 2.
s. 166(3)
s. 168
Covered in Unit 6 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 2.
s. 170
Covered in Unit 6 · Motor Vehicles Act 1988 — Part 2.
s. 171
s. 174
s. 176(1)
s. 178
s. 180
s. 186
s. 304
s. 304A
s. 324
s. 326
s. 356
s. 409
s. 429
s. 482
s. 499
s. 500
s. 523
s. 528
s. 550
Cases on this Act
- Donoghue v Stevenson (1932)
- Rylands v Fletcher (1868)
- Union Carbide Corporation v Union of India — the Bhopal gas disaster litigation
- Ashby v White (1703) and the Gloucester Grammar School Case (1410)
- Bhim Singh v State of Jammu & Kashmir (1985)
- Rudul Sah v State of Bihar (1983) and Nilabati Behera v State of Orissa (1993)
- State of Rajasthan v Vidhyawati (1962)
- Kasturi Lal Ralia Ram Jain v State of U.P. (1965) and N. Nagendra Rao & Co v State of A.P. (1994)
- Municipal Corporation of Delhi v Subhagwanti (1966)
- Jacob Mathew v State of Punjab (2005)
- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police (1992)
- In Re Polemis (1921) and The Wagon Mound (No. 1) (1961)
- Hedley Byrne & Co. Ltd. v. Heller & Partners Ltd. (1964)
- Rustom K. Karanjia v K.M.D. Thackersey (1970) and R. Rajagopal v State of Tamil Nadu (1994)
- Sarla Verma v. Delhi Transport Corporation (2009) and National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Pranay Sethi (2017)
- National Insurance Co Ltd v Swaran Singh (2004)
- Indian Medical Association v. V.P. Shantha (1995)
- Lucknow Development Authority v M.K. Gupta (1994)
- Laxmi Engineering Works v P.S.G. Industrial Institute (1995) and Faqir Chand Gulati v Uppal Agencies Pvt Ltd (2008)