Month: May 2023
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Right to Strike
Law and You > Constitutional Law > Right to Strike A strike is a powerful weapon used by trade unions or other associations or workers to put across their demands or grievances by employers or management of industries. Strikes are characterized by the fact that employees temporarily cease to fulfill their contractual obligation to perform…
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Freedom of Press Under Indian Constitution
Law and You > Constitutional Law > Freedom of Press Under Indian Constitution Through the ages, man has expressed his ideas through several media like symbols, signals, speech, script and print, and now computer language. Man’s greatest invention is language. The invention of the script has helped mankind to preserve human thought and learning. It…
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Caste as a Divisive Factor
The term ‘caste’ is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese word “casta”, meaning “lineage” or “race” or “a group having hereditary quality”. Caste is a system of social stratification, which means that a person’s social status is obligated to which caste he/she was born in to It involves ranking according to birth and determines one’s…
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Duties and Rights of Partners
The Indian Partnership Act, 1932 contains provisions that govern the relation of partners to one another. The partners of a partnership firm can draft their terms and conditions with respect to their duties, roles and responsibilities in a partnership deed. In the absence of a partnership deed, the provisions given under the Indian Partnership Act…
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Law and Social Changes
‘Law’ signifies a rule applied indiscriminately to all actions. The term “Law’ denotes different kinds of rules and Principles. ‘Law’ denotes the whole process by which organized society, through government bodies and personnel (Law-makers, Courts, Tribunals, Law Enforcement Agencies and Executive, Penal and corrective Institutions etc.) attempt to apply rules and regulations to establish and…
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Gender Inequality in India
The terms ‘biological’, ‘chromosomes’, ‘hormones’, and ‘physiological’ point to the internal human body, while the terms ‘sociological’, ‘culture’, ‘psychological’, and ‘society’ are related to the external aspects. We are clearly able to identify the differences in these terms. The terms which describe the aspects of human body come to mean as sex, while the rest…
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Registration of Partnership Firm
The Act does not make the registration of partnership firms compulsory in India nor does the Act impose any penalties for non-registration. However, certain disabilities are provided in s 69 of the Act for unregistered firms and their partners. In this article we shall discuss registration of partnership firm and effects of its non-registration The…
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Dissolution of Partnership Firm
When the partnership between all the partners of a firm is dissolved, then it is called dissolution of a firm. It is important to note that the relationship between all partners should be dissolved for the firm to be dissolved. A dissolution of partnership changes the existing relationship between partners but the firm may continue…
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Outgoing Partner
‘Outgoing partner’ is the partner who is leaving the partnership firm. When the partner leaves the firm either due to the retirement or due to the death, it is called as the outgoing partner. Outgoing partner is a partner who is going to leave a particular firm purposely or to he/she might be died or expelled…
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Retirement of Partner (S.32 Indian Partnership Act, 1932)
‘Outgoing partner’ is the partner who is leaving the partnership firm. When the partner leaves the firm either due to the retirement or due to the death, it is called as the outgoing partner. Outgoing partner is a partner who is going to leave a particular firm purposely or to he/she might be died or expelled…