Used for the proper law of the contract and party autonomy. Within the European Union it has been superseded by the Rome I Regulation (593/2008), which carries the rules forward with changes; this subject sets out the Convention and says so, because the Convention is the form the Indian literature still discusses.
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 ↗.