Codification, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code

Codification, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code
Author: Barry Wright
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317164865

Enacted in 1860, the Indian Penal Code is the longest serving and one of the most influential criminal codes in the common law world. This book commemorates its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary and honours the law reform legacy of Thomas Macaulay, the principal drafter of the Code. The book comprises chapters which examine the general principles of criminal responsibility from the perspective of Macaulay, and from more recent accounts by lawmakers and reformers. These are framed by chapters that examine the history and conceptual underpinnings of Macaulay's Code, consider the need to revitalize the Indian Penal Code, and review the current challenges of principled criminal law reform and codification. This book is a valuable reference on the Indian Penal Code, and current debates about general principles of criminal law for legal academics, judges, legal practitioners and criminal law reformers. It also promises to have wider scholarly appeal, of interest to legal theorists, historians and policy specialists.

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Indian Penal Code, 1860
Author: Salim Khan Anmol
Publisher: Sakha Global Books,Inc..
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2020-02-08
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Indian Penal Code, 1860 is a recently launched book of Sakha Global Books (Sakha Books) publication. Apart from above legislations, there are numerous directions, guidelines and cautions by Supreme Court to protect the personal liberty, human rights and human dignity under article 21 of the Constitution of India. The book discusses the contours of the rule of law in India, the values and aspirations in its evolution, and its meaning as understood by the various institutions, identifying reason as the primary element in the rule of law mechanism. It later examines the institutional, political, and social challenges to the concepts of equality and certainty, through which it evaluates the status of the rule of law in India. The Indian Penal Code is a complete code of reference serving the public at large for more than a century. It is a section-wise commentary including scope and applicability alongwith ingredients of provisions, impact of notable judicial pronouncements, case law references, Central and State amendments. It contains a Summary of the entire contents at the end of the book which provides a quick overview. This new translated edition includes references to statutory changes under The Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 (10 of 2009) and widest possible range of Supreme Court and High Courts decisions. This book is an attempt to assimilate basic knowledge from all these sources so as to assist in each stage of criminal proceedings starting with crime investigation, bail, trial and even after the conviction and sentencing of a person. This book contains all the Laws relating to Indian railways within territories of India. It can be used as a bare act set of the laws as well as detailed information on IPCs. Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday use of language is quite effortless—we are all experts on our native tongues but not in our Legal systems. Despite this, issues of legal status and meaning have long flummoxed the judges on whom we depend for the interpretation of our most fundamental legal rights. Should a judge feel confident in defining common words in the texts without the aid of a linguist? How is the meaning communicated by the text determined? Should the communicative meaning of texts be decisive, or at least influential? To fully engage and probe these questions of interpretation, this volume draws upon a variety of experts from several fields, who collectively examine the interpretation of legal texts. In The Nature of Legal Interpretation, the contributors argue that the meaning of language is crucial to the interpretation of legal texts, such as statutes, constitutions, and contracts. Accordingly, expert analysis of language from linguists, philosophers, and legal scholars should influence how courts interpret legal texts. Offering insightful new interdisciplinary perspectives on originalism and legal interpretation, these essays put forth a significant and provocative discussion of how best to characterize the nature of language in legal texts. Once again we thank you all for purchasing this book and would like to recommend you to read our other books on "Indian law" series published on Amazon and Google Play Books. This book is a sincere attempt to place before the aspirants of various judicial examination and Law students who are pursuing their law degree, a comprehensive volume which will enable them to acquire a detailed understanding of the various aspects of the Criminal Procedure. I thank my students; it is their interest and appreciation which inspires me to write the quality book for law students. An effort has been made to make the contents of the study material relevant, to the point, up-to-date and authentic. I have also used tables and diagrams to make the presentation clearer and easier. I used to explain section in very lucid manner by breaking section into parts which definitely going to help students. The chapter-wise question is designed (with explanation) in such a way to help the students to test their understanding of the chapter and major area of different state judicial examination for both preliminary and mains prospective. The questions are framed in accordance with the trends in various state judicial service examinations. Every step in this book is a little effort towards easy understanding of Law and its application in day to day life. After the commencement of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 is applicable to the whole of India. I have tried to write latest judgments. For example, I have discussed duration or life of mandatory bail with the help of Sushila Aggarwal and others v. State (NCT of Delhi) and another (January 29, 2020). We may state that we have made all efforts to make the study scientific, systematic, useful and organized by help of recent judgements of Hon’ble Supreme Court by referring important ratio. We hope and trust that student community and men in public will find it useful, reliable and trustworthy. We welcome constructive comments and suggestions from our esteemed readers. - Sakha Global Books (Sakha Books)

How to Frame a Charge

How to Frame a Charge
Author: Dhirendra Pal Varshni
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1994
Genre: Criminal procedure
ISBN: 9788170125372

The Constitution of India

The Constitution of India
Author: Constituent Assembly of India
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2020-10-03
Genre:
ISBN:

The constitution of India is the lengthiest constitution in the world. Though mainly derived from government of India act, 1935, it has adopted articles from constitutions of a number of countries -USA, CANADA, ENGLANDEvery Political Scientist, Lawyer, Student preparing for various competitive exam and even every responsible citizen of the land must be aware of various parts and article.People of other countries, who wish to compare their constitution with the constitution of India must also read it.

The Indian Penal Code

The Indian Penal Code
Author: Shubham Sinha
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781512294101

This book is BARE ACT of Indian Law on punishments applicable within Indian territories. It is the hardcore set of rules as exactly provided by Indian government authorities. Indian Penal Code is the main criminal code of India. It is a comprehensive code intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law. The code was drafted in 1860 on the recommendations of first law commission of India established in 1834 under the Charter Act of 1833 under the Chairmanship of Thomas Babington Macaulay. It came into force in British India during the early British Raj period in 1862. However, it did not apply automatically in the Princely states, which had their own courts and legal systems until the 1940s. The Code has since been amended several times and is now supplemented by other criminal provisions. Based on IPC, Jammu and Kashmir has enacted a separate code known as Ranbir Penal Code (RPC). After the departure of the British, the Indian Penal Code was inherited by Pakistan as well, much of which was formerly part of British India, and there it is now called the Pakistan Penal Code. Even after the independence of Bangladesh (Formerly known as East Pakistan) from Pakistan (Formerly known as West Pakistan), it continued in force there. It, the Indian Penal Code, was also adopted by the British colonial authorities in Burma, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the Straits Settlements (now part of Malaysia), Singapore and Brunei, and remains the basis of the criminal codes in those countries.The Ranbir Penal Code applicable in that state of Jammu and Kashmir of India, is also based on this Code. The draft of the Indian Penal Code was prepared by the First Law Commission, chaired by Thomas Babington Macaulay in 1834 and was submitted to Governor-General of India Council in 1837. Its basis is the law of England freed from superfluities, technicalities and local peculiarities. Elements were also derived from the Napoleonic Code and from Edward Livingston's Louisiana Civil Code of 1825. The first final draft of the Indian Penal Code was submitted to the Governor-General of India in Council in 1837, but the draft was again revised. The drafting was completed in 1850 and the Code was presented to the Legislative Council in 1856, but it did not take its place on the statute book of British India until a generation later, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The draft then underwent a very careful revision at the hands of Barnes Peacock, who later became the first Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court, and the future puisne judges of the Calcutta High Court, who were members of the Legislative Council, and was passed into law on 6 October 1860. The Code came into operation on 1 January 1862. Unfortunately, Macaulay did not survive to see his masterpiece come into force, having died near the end of 1859. The objective of this Act is to provide a general penal code for India. Though not an initial objective, the Act does not repeal the penal laws which were in force at the time of coming into force in India. This was so because the Code does not contain all the offences and it was possible that some offences might have still been left out of the Code, which were not intended to be exempted from penal consequences. Though this Code consolidates the whole of the law on the subject and is exhaustive on the matters in respect of which it declares the law, many more penal statutes governing various offenses have been created in addition to the code.