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