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Legal Language · Unit 8

Legal Writing, Composition and Comprehension

Unit 8 of Legal Language including Legal Writing and General English (syllabus: Module 8). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.

What this unit covers

  • How do you read a passage, and a section, closely enough to answer it?
  • Every written form in this paper has a fixed shape and a fixed length
  • What must a legal notice contain, and when is notice a condition precedent to suing?
  • The vernacular vocabulary of the Indian courts, and the words that trap you

Treat that list as a self-test: recite each topic's rule from memory before you open its cases.

Provisions

  • Code of Civil Procedure 1908, s. 80

Leading cases

  • Section 80
  • The one-third rule — a precis of about one-third of the original
  • Transfer of Property Act 1882
  • Misal — in court usage the record or file of a case

Exam questions on this unit