Principles & Forms of Pleadings, Drafting & Conveyancing With Advocacy & Professional Ethics -A.N Chaturvedi

Principles & Forms of Pleadings, Drafting & Conveyancing With Advocacy & Professional Ethics by A.N Chaturvedi is a law textbook published by Allahabad Law Agency.

Written with the needs of law students in mind, it explains the principles and provisions of the subject in a systematic and readable manner, making it a dependable companion for coursework and examination preparation.

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• Systematic, student-friendly treatment of the subject
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What’s Inside — Complete Chapter Map (4 Parts)

Part I — Principles of Drafting and Practice of Civil Pleadings (17 chapters): the history, meaning and object of pleadings · the fundamental rules of pleading — facts not law, material facts not evidence, concise form with precision — with Order VI CPC worked through rule by rule (particulars, condition precedent, departures, denial of contract, malice and knowledge, verification, signature) · alternate and inconsistent pleadings · the courts and their jurisdiction, original, appellate and review · place of suing under Sections 16–20 CPC and objections to jurisdiction and valuation · frame of suit — parties, cause of action, subject-matter, reliefs, joinder and misjoinder of causes · parties to a suit, joinder and non-joinder · the Plaint — every formal part explained, with four full worked drafts (ejectment, tenancy, urban buildings, declaration and injunction) · the Written Statement — admissions and denials, dilatory pleas, special defences, set-off and counter-claim distinguished, with drafts · amendment of pleadings, compulsory and voluntary, and when courts allow or refuse it · institution of suits, summons, return and rejection of plaint, discovery and inspection, interrogatories, notice to admit, summoning witnesses · hearing and disposal, settlement of issues, judgment and decree · interlocutory applications — arrest and attachment before judgment, temporary injunctions, receivers, security for costs, withdrawal and compromise, setting aside ex parte decrees, guardians ad litem · special proceedings including interpleader suits, suits by minors and indigent persons and suits by or against firms · appellate courts, first and second appeals and the memorandum of appeal · reference, review and revision · execution of decrees.

Part II — Forms and Precedents of Civil Pleadings: fifteen complete plaints (cancellation of sale-deed, malicious prosecution, declaratory suit, dissolution of partnership, ejectment, enforcement of simple mortgage, money suit, summary suit, partition of joint Hindu family property, possession on title, specific performance, permanent injunction, price of goods, commercial causes, defective delivery) and five written statements · matrimonial petitions — judicial separation, divorce, mutual consent, restitution of conjugal rights, nullity, and maintenance pendente lite with replies · applications under the Indian Succession Act — succession certificate, letters of administration and probate · insolvency petitions · writ petitions — habeas corpus, mandamus, certiorari, prohibition and quo warranto with form and contents · affidavits, notices of motion and summons for judgment, with a long series of specimen affidavits and banking, mortgage and guarantee forms.

Part III — Criminal Pleadings: general principles, classes of criminal courts and their powers, hints on drafting a complaint, the form of complaint and the FIR · 25 skeleton forms of criminal complaints keyed to the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (public nuisance, hurt with dangerous weapons, extortion, robbery, criminal breach of trust in its several forms, cheating and cheating by personation, mischief, criminal trespass, bigamy, defamation and more) · specimen complaints · the written statement of the accused · applications in criminal courts — bail (with a form under Section 430 BNSS 2023), sureties, search of persons wrongfully confined, custody, transfer and maintenance · appeals and revisions with drafting guidance.

Part IV — Conveyancing and Drafting of Deeds: the history and function of conveyancing, deed poll and indenture, and the components of a deed · then model deeds for adoption, affidavit, agreements (hire-purchase, building contract, publisher and author, leave and licence, sale of house, arbitration), assignment, exchange, gift, lease, licence, mortgage, negotiable instruments, notices (to quit, ejectment, dissolution of partnership, statutory notice under Section 80 CPC), partition and family settlement, partnership, power of attorney, sale, and wills and codicils · closing with setting up an MNC in India and a full treatment of advocacy and professional ethics — Advocates, Senior Advocates and Advocates-on-Record, the Seven Lamps of Advocacy, the 2023 amendment on touts, online advertising, designation of Senior Advocates, robes, what constitutes misconduct under the Advocates Act 1961, and the 2023 Bar Council notifications on foreign lawyers and firms.