Legal Terms and Matters Archive

Title Deed and EM with Laminated Title Deed

Title deed is a deed constituting the evidence of a person’s legal ownership of an asset or property. Deed represents an instrument containing details of legal transfer, bargain or contract.  The term title deed is normally used

Hypothecation And Safeguards By Banks 

Hypothecation is the most famous method adopted by banks in India for security creation. This method is adopted while extending cash credits for raising working capital and term loans for acquiring movable assets. Hypothecation as a method

Pledge, Pledgor, Pledgee And Bank Loans

Pledge is a popular method adopted in banking to create charge on a security. It is a specific form of bailment. Pledge is defined under the Indian Contract Act as a form of bailment of goods where

Bailment, Bailor And Bailee

Bailment is defined in Section 148 of The Indian Contract Act 1972.As per the definition, bailment is delivery of goods by one person to another for some purpose upon a contract that they shall, when the purpose

Types of stamps and stamping methods

Indian Stamp Act,1899,  a revenue legislation governs the stamping of  documents and instruments. The Act also stipulates the instruments that are chargeable with stamp duty.  The governing norm regarding stamp duty is that all instruments liable for

Documents, Instruments and Stamping

Stamping of documents in India is governed by the Indian Stamp Act,1899.  This Act is a revenue legislation specially enacted with the aim of raising revenue for the Government.  The Act does not cover the State of

Measures to Ensure Corporate Governance in Indian Companies

Corporate governance is the system of rules, practices and processes by which a firm is guided towards attaining its objectives. It covers doing the business in adherence to the laws of the land and by following the

Financial Bill, Finance Bill and Money Bill

India being a federal country, laws can be made separately  by Union Government and State Governments covering their domains. The Union Government (Federal Government) makes laws for the entire country and  the State Governments for their respective

Aadhaar is mandatory for all new accounts; small accounts exempted

Aadhaar is now essential for opening of new accounts. RBI has made Aadhar and Permanent Account Number (PAN) / Form 60 mandatory for all new accounts to be opened. However, for opening small accounts these documents are

Filling up of a blank cheque need not be material alteration

Reference Order by the High Court of Gujrat in the case of Nikhil P. Gandhi vs. State of Gujarat – CDJ 2016 GHC 071 Back Ground: The applicant was an ex- Managing Director of a company. The