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LLB 3yrs 60 40 Pattern SYLLABUS
LLB 3yrs 60 40 Pattern SYLLABUS
***Distribution of marks (for Act/Topic etc) is referred from Old 100 marks pattern
but to be divided proportionately as per the new 60:40 pattern
FYLLB SEMESTER – I
(All Subjects Compulsory)
Labour Laws
Contract - I
Torts & Consumer Protection Laws
Legal Language
Practical Training - I
Detailed Syllabus:
[1] LABOUR LAWS
Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 – 40 marks
MRTU & PULP Act, 1971 – 20 marks
Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 – 15 marks
Employees Compensation Act, 1932 – 15 marks
Collective Bargaining – 10 marks
[2] CONTRACT – I
(1) Indian Contract Act, 1872 (Sections 1 – 75)
General Principles of Contract
Government as a Contracting Party
Constitutional provisions; government power to contract; procedural requirements; kinds of
government contracts; their usual clauses; performance of such contracts; settlements of
disputes & remedies.
Standard Form Contracts
Nature, advantages – unilateral character, principles of protection against the possibility of
exploitation; judicial approach to such contracts; exemption clauses; clash between two
standard form contracts.
Multi-National Agreement
(2) Specific Relief Act, 1963
3. Justification in Tort
Volenti non fit injuria
Necessity, private & public
Plaintiff’s default
Act of God
Inevitable accident
Private defence
Statutory authority
Judicial & quasi-judicial acts
Parental & quasi-parental authority
8. Negligence
Basic concepts
Theories of negligence
Standards of care, duty to take care, carelessness, inadvertence
Doctrine of contributory negligence
Res ipsa loquitur & its importance in contemporary law
Liability due to negligence – different professional
Liability of common carrier for negligence
Product liability due to negligence – liability of manufacturers & business houses for their products
9. Nuisance
Definition, essentials & types
Acts which constitute nuisance – obstructions of highways, pollution of air, water, noise, &
interference with light & air.
4. Consumer of goods
Meaning of defects in goods
Standards of purity, quality, quantity & potency
Statutes – food & drugs, engineering & electrical goods
6. Consumer Safety
Starting, distribution & handling of unsafe & hazardous products
Insecticides & pesticides & other poisonous substances
7. Service
Deficiency – meaning
Professional services
Medical services
How to determine negligence
Violation of statute
Denial of medical service – violation of human rights
Lawyering services – duty-towards-court & duty-to-client dilemma, break of confidentiality –
negligence & misconduct.
Public Utilities ; Supply of electricity
Telecommunication & postal services
Housing ; Banking
8. Commercial services
Hiring
Financing
Agency Services
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FYLLB SEMESTER – II
(All Subjects Compulsory)
Law of Crimes
Constitutional Law
Family Law - I
Environmental Laws
DPC - I (Drafting, Pleading & Conveyancing)
Detailed Syllabus:
[1] LAW OF CRIMES
(1) CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE
1. Administration of Justice
What is administration of justice?
Necessity for administration of justice
Historical background to administration of justice
Difference between civil & criminal justice
3. Sources of Crime
4. Stages of Crime
Intention
Preparation
Attempt
Commission of Crime
5. Theories of Punishment
Deterrent
Preventive
Retributive
Reformative
Compensation
6. Kinds of Punishment
Death Sentence
Social Reference of Capital Punishment
Alternative to Capital Punishment
Imprisonment – Simple ; Rigorous ; For Life ; Solitary Confinement
Forfeiture of Property
Fine
Sentencing Discretion
5. Indian Parliament – Nature, Composition, powers & privileges & State Legislatures.
6. Cabinet form of Govt
Parliamentary form at the Centre & States – Head of State ; Council of Ministers
Attorney General & Advocate generals
7. Indian Judiciary
Supreme Court & High Courts - Composition, Powers
Judicial Independence – subordinate courts
**Considering the vastness & the never-ending growth of constitutional law, topic wise discussion
will be more suited. Topics in the syllabus & discussion in the classroom should compel the students
to study the entire constitution on their own.
9. Emergency (Part XVIII) – Kinds, Legal requirements, Legal effects
10. Amendment & the Basic Structure Doctrine (Part XX)
11. Services under Indian Constitution (Part IV)
Services under Union / State – All Indian Services
Doctrine of pleasure & exceptions
12. Democracy & Election Commission of India (Part XV)
13. Introduce the following –
1) Civil Rights Protection Act, 1955
2) Citizenship : Part II
3) Parts IX,IX A,X Panchayats, Municipalities & Scheduled & Tribal Areas
4) Part XIV A Tribunals (Covered in administrative Law, Semester III)
5) Part XVII official language
6) Part XIX Miscellaneous
6. Precautionary Principle
7. Sustainable development
8. Water Pollution Act, 1974 & Air Pollution Acts, 1981
1) Meaning & Air Standards
2) Culprits & victims
3) Procedures for sampling
4) Formation of Boards & their functions or Protection agencies: their powers & functions
5) Offences & penalties
6) Judicial approach
9. Noise Pollution
10. Environmental Protection Act, 1986
11. Bio Medical waste 12. Hazardous Waste
13. Environment Impact Assessment
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Administrative Law
Family Law - II
Transfer of Property & Easement Act
Company Law
Practical Training - II
Detailed Syllabus:
[1] ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
1) Evolutions, Nature & Scope of Administrative Law
Form a Laissez - faire to a social welfare state
State as regulator of private interest
State as provider of services
Other functions of modern state: relief, welfare
2) Evolution of administration as the fourth branch of government necessity for delegation of
powers on administration.
3) Evolution of agencies & procedures for settlement of disputers between individual &
administration.
Regulatory agencies on the United States
Conseil d’Etat
Tribunalization in England & India
4) Definition & scope of administrative law
5) Relationship between constitutional law & administrative law
6) Separation of powers
7) Rule of law
6. Administrative discretion
Need for administrative discretion
Administrative discretion & rule of law
Limitations on exercise of discretion
Malafide exercise of discretion
Constitutional imperative & use of discretionary authority
Irrelevant considerations
Non-exercise of discretionary power
4. Joint Family
1) Mitakshara joint family
2) Mitakshara coparcenary-formation & incidents
3) Property under Mitakshara law-separate property & corparcenary property.
4) Dayabhaga coparcenary-formation & incidents
5) Property under Dayabhaga law.
6) Karta of the joint family-his position, powers, privileges & obligations.
7) Alienation of property-separate & coparcenary
8) Debta-doctrines of pious obligations & antecedent debt.
9) Partitition & re-union.
10) Joint Hindu family as a social security institution & impact of Hindu Gains of Learning Act & various
tax laws on it.
11) Matrilineal joint family.
5. Inheritance
1) Hindus
Historical perspective of traditional Hindu law as a background to the study of Hindu
succession Act 1956.
Succession to property of a Hindu male dying intestate under the provisions of Hindu
Succession Act 1956.
Devolution of interest in Mitakshara coparcenary with reference to the provisions of Hindu
Succession Act 1956.
Succession to property of Hindu female dying intestate under the Hindu Succession Act
1956.
Disqualification relating to succession
General rules of succession
Marumakkattayam & Aliyasantana laws governing people living in Thiruvanadapuram,
Cochin & other districts of Malabar & South Kanara.
2) General rules of succession & exclusion from succession.
3) Classification of heirs under Hanafi & Ithna Ashria schools & their shares & distribution of property.
4) Christians, Parsis & Jews
6. Matrimonial Remedies
1) Non-judicial resolution of marital conflicts.
Customary dissolution of marriage-unilateral divorce, divorce by mutual consent & other
modes of dissolution,
2) Judicial resolution of martial conflicts – the family court
3) Nullity of marriage
4) Option of puberty – Condition of Valid Marriage – Section 5 of Hindu Marriage Act wherein
conditions of valid marriage are given.
5) Restitution of conjugal rights
6) Judicial separation
7) Desertion a ground for matrimonial relief
8) Cruelty – a ground for matrimonial relief
9) Adultery – a ground for matrimonial relief
10) Other grounds for matrimonial relief
11) Bar to matrimonial relief:
Doctrine of strict proof
Taking advantage of one’s own wrong or disability
Accessory
Connivance
Collusion
Condonation
Improper or unnecessary delay
Residuary clause-no other legal ground exists for refusing the matrimonial relief.
9. Family & it’s changing pattern (looked from Socio-Economic view Point)
1) New emerging trends:
2) Attenuation of family ties
3) Working women & their impact on spousal relationship: composition of family, status & role of
women.
4) New property concepts, such as skill & job as new forms of property.
5) Factors affecting the family: demographic, environmental, religious & legislative.
6) Processes of social change in India: sanskritization, westernization, secularization, universalization,
parochialization, modernization, industrialization & urbanization.
5. Corporate Liability
1) Legal liability of companies – civil & criminal
2) Remedies against companies – civil, criminal & tortuous – Specific Relief Act, writs liability under
special statutes.
**All Latest Amendments of the Act must be studied by referring the latest editions of books.
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SYLLB SEMESTER – IV
Compulsory Subjects
Jurisprudence
Contract - II
Land Laws
DPC - II
Optional Subjects (Choose any 1 out of 3)
Detailed Syllabus:
Compulsory Subjects
[1] JURISPRUDENCE
1. Introduction
1) Meaning of the term jurisprudence
2) Norm & the normative system
Different types of nominee system such as of games, languages, religious orders, unions,
clubs & customary practice.
Legal system as a normative order similarities & differences of the legal system with order
normative system.
3) Nature & definition of law
2. Schools of Jurisprudence
1) Analytical positivism
2) Natural law
3) Historical school
4) Sociological school
5) Economic interpretation of law
6) The Modern PIL, social justice, compensatory jurisprudence
7) The Bharat jurisprudence
8) The Ancient : the concept of ‘Dharma’
3. Purpose of Law
1) Justice
Meaning & kinds
Justice & law approaches of different schools
Power of the Supreme Court of India to do complete justice in a case, Article 147.
Critical studies
2) Feminist jurisprudence
4. Sources of Law
1) Legislation
2) Precedents – concept of state decosos
3) Customs
4) Juristic Writings
5. Legal Rights
1) The concept
2) Kinds of rights
3) Right – Duty : correlation
6. Person
1) Nature of personality
2) Status of the unborn, minor, lunatic drunk & deal persons
3) Corporate personality
4) Dimensions of the modern legal personality Legal personality of non-human beings.
7. Possession
1) The concept
2) Kinds of possession
8. Ownership
1) The concept
2) Kinds of ownership
3) Difference between possession & ownership
9. Title
10. Property
[2] CONTRACT - II
(1) Indian Contract Act, 1872 (sections 124-238) – 40 Marks
(2) Indian Partnership Act, 1932 – 30 Marks
(3) Sale of Goods Act, 1930 –30 Marks
[4] DPC – II
1. Public Notice
2. Agreement for Sale
3. Sale Deed
4. Simple Mortgage
5. English Mortgage
6. Lease Deed
7. Exchange Deed
8. Gift Deed
9. Leave & Licence Agreement
10. Partnership Deed
11. Franchise Agreement
12. Indemnity Bond
13. Board Resolution
14. Memorandum of Understanding
15. Confidentiality Agreement
16. Registration of Documents
Optional Subjects (Choose any 1 out of 3)
[5.a] CRIMINOLOGY & CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATION
1. Dimensions of Crime in India
1) Nature & orient of crime in India
General approaches to come control
2) Crimes of the powerful
Organised crimes – smuggling narcotics
White collar crime – corruption in public life
Socio-Economic crime – adulteration of foods & drugs, fraudulent trade practice
Crimes in the profession – medical, legal, engineering
Commonality by agencies of the state
3) Perpetrators of ordinary crime
Situational criminal
Chronic offender
Criminality & women
Young offenders
Criminal gangs
Cyber Crimes
4. Punishment of Offenders
1) Some discarded modes of punishment
Corporal punishment ; whipping & flogging ; mutilation and branding
Transportation
Public execution
2) Punishments under the Indian criminal law
Capital Punishment
Imprisonment
Fine
Cancellation or withdrawal of licences
3) Prison System
Administrative organization of prisons
Mode of recruitment & training
Jail Manual
Powers of prison officials
Prisoners classification – male, female ; juvenile & adult ; under trial & convicted prisoners
Constitutional imperatives & prison reforms
Prison management – prisoner’s right & security compulsions.
Open prisons
Prison labour
Violation of prison code & its consequences.
4) Appraisal of imprisonment as a mode of punishment
5. Victimology
1) Demographic characteristics of the victims
2) Compensation to the victims
3) Rehabilitation
7. Re-socialisation processes
1) Parole
Nature of parole
Authority for granting parole
Supervision of parolees
Parole & conditional release
2) Release of the offender
Problems of the released offender
Attitudes of the community towards released offender
Prisoner & societies & other voluntary organizations
Governmental action
An appraisal
2. Insolvency jurisdiction
1) Courts
2) Powers of court
3. Acts of Insolvency
1) Transfer of property to a third person for benefit of creditors generally
2) Transfer with intent to defeat creditors
3) Fraudulent preferences in transfer of property
4) Absconding with intent to defeat the creditors
5) Sale of property in execution of decree of court
6) Adjudication of insolvent
7) Notice to creditors about suspension of payment of debt.
8) Imprisonment in execution of a decree of a court
9) Notice by creditor
4. Insolvency petition
1) By creditor
2) By debtor
3) Contents of the petition
4) Admission
5) Procedure
7. Duties of Debtors
8. Release of debtor
9. Procedure at hearing
10. Dismissal of petition filed by a creditor
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TYLLB SEMESTER – V
(All Subjects Compulsory)
CPC
CrPC
Interpretation of Statutes
Public International Law & Human Rights
Practical Training – III
Detailed Syllabus:
[1] CPC
Civil Procedure Code – 85 Marks
Indian Limitation Act – 15 Marks
[2] CrPC
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 – 70 Marks
Juvenile Justice Care & Protection of Children Act, 2000 – 15 Marks
Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 – 15 Marks
2. Aids to interpretation
1) Internal Aids
Title
Preamble
Headings & marginal notes.
Sections & sub sections.
Punctuation marks.
Illustrations, inceptions, provision & saving clauses.
Schedules.
Non obstaute Clause.
2) External Aids
Dictionaries
Translations
R Travaux preparation
Statutes in para
Contempronea expositus
Debates, inquiry commission reports & law commission reports.
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TYLLB SEMESTER – VI
Compulsory Subjects
(6) Conciliation
1. Distinction between ‘Conciliation’, ‘Negotiation’, ‘mediation’ & ‘arbitration’
2. Appointment ; Statements to conciliator
3. Interaction between conciliator & parties ; Communication
4. Duty of parties to cooperate
5. Suggestions by parties
6. Confidentiality
7. Resort to judicial proceedings
8. Costs
(4) Patents
1. Patent Act 1970
2. Concept of Patent
3. Historical view of patents law in India
4. Patentable inventions with special reference to biotechnology products entailing creation of new
forms of life
5. Patent protection for computer programmes
6. Process of obtaining a patent: application, examination, opposition & sealing of patents: general
introduction
7. Procedure for filing patents: Patent Co-operation Treaty
8. Some grounds for Opposition
9. The problem of limited locus standi to oppose, especially in relation to inventions having potential of
ecological & mass disasters
10. Wrongfully obtaining the invention
11. Prior publication or anticipation
12. Obviousness & the lack of inventive step
13. Insufficient description
14. Rights & obligations of a patentee
15. Patents as chose in action
16. Duration of patents; law & policy considerations
17. Use & exercise rights
18. Right to secrecy
19. The notion of ‘abuse’ of patent rights
20. Compulsory license
21. Remedies
22. Infringement
23. Criteria of infringement
24. Onus of proof
25. Modes of Infringement; the Doctrine of Colourable Variation
26. Defences in suits of Infringement
27. Injunctions & related remedies
(6) Status
1. What is Status?
2. Incidents
3. What law governs status
4. Universality of status
(7) Marriage
1. Marriage as a contract & also status how different from other contracts (social personal contract)
2. Kinds of Marriage
3. How in India, marriage as a concept moved from partially polygamous towards monogamous type &
total sacrament to secularization to some extent
4. Questions of format & essential validity
5. Formal validity by lex loci celebrations
6. Essential / material / intrinsic validity
7. Capacity to marriage
8. Consent
9. Not within prohibited degrees
10. Not previously married
11. Physical incapacity
12. Of proper age
13. Essential validity usually governed by lex domicili
14. English cases
15. Indian position clarified in cases
(10) Adoption
1. Purpose of adoption
2. Common law
3. Indian law
4. Hindu law
5. Recognition of foreign adoption
(12) Contracts
1. Contract – a leading relationship in private international law system
2. Validity of contracts
3. Capacity to contract – Main four theories Lex Loci, Lex Domicilii, Lex situs & proper law
4. Formal validity – lex loci contractus governs
5. Essential validity – proper law is usually accepted as governing
6. Discharge of contract – Lex loci solutions governing
7. Doctrine of “proper law” of contract subjective & objective Theories
(13) Torts
1. Traditional theories
2. Ideas of tort of recent importance in private International Law such as drugs, environments,
transport & satellite communication
(5) Guardianship
1. Right of women to adopt a child
2. Problems of women guardian
(6) Divorce
1. Indian Divorce Act 2. Christian Law 3. Muslim Law
(12) Problems of conception, birth & nourishment & health of the child
1. Legal status of child in work
2. Tortious liability against injuries to unborn children
3. Coparcenary & property rights of the unborn children
4. Law relating to maternity benefit & relief
5. Lack of legal protection of children of impoverished parentage
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Sd/-
Mr. Sanjay I. Waghulde
I/c. Principal