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Private international law — no single governing enactment

India has no codified conflict of laws. The subject is built from the common law rules as the Indian courts have applied them, from the conflicts provisions scattered through Indian statutes — CPC s. 13 and s. 44A on foreign judgments, the Special Marriage Act, the Indian Succession Act — and from the international instruments below. That absence is itself examinable: say which rule you are applying and where it comes from.

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. 1

s. 2(5)

s. 2(6)

s. 9(1)

s. 10

s. 13

s. 13(a)

s. 13(b)

s. 13(d)

s. 13(e)

s. 13(f)

s. 14

s. 15

s. 16

s. 20

s. 20(c)

s. 35

s. 36

s. 41

s. 43

s. 44

s. 44A

s. 44A(3)

s. 63

s. 65

s. 83

s. 86

s. 86(1)

s. 151

Cases on this Act

Examined in