Legal Maxims applied in Indian Couts

Dura lex sed lex- law is hard but it is law - It is a settled legal position that law of limitation may harshly affect a particular party but it has to be applied with all itsContinue Reading
Generalia specialibus non derogant-general law yields to special law - It is a well settled principle of statutory interpretation that when there is a conflict between the general law and the special law then theContinue Reading
Jose Paulo Coutinho Vs. Maria Luiza Valentina Pereira & ANR- 13/09/2019 - Portuguese Civil Code, 1867 as applicable in the State of Goa, which shall govern the rights of succession and inheritance even in respect of properties of a Goan domicile situated outside Goa, anywhere in India
Nemo moriturus praesumitur mentire – No one at the point of death is presumed to lie - “Nemo moriturus praesumitur mentire – No one at the point of death is presumed to lie.” “A man will not meet his Maker with aContinue Reading
Quando lex aliquid alicui concedit, concedere videtur et id sine quo res ipsae esse non potest - When the law gives anything to anyone, it gives also all those things without which the thing itself would be unavailable.