Annexure-I

FACULTY OF LAW
OSMANIA UNIVERSITY
SYLLABUS OF LL.B. (3-YDC)

(w.e.f. the Academic Year 2022-2023)

LL.B. I SEMESTER
PAPER-I:

LAW OF CONTRACT–I

Unit-I
Definition and essentials of a valid Contract - Definition and essentials of a valid Offer
- Definition and essentials of valid Acceptance - Communication of Offer and
Acceptance - Revocation of Offer and Acceptance through various modes including
electronic medium - Consideration - salient features - Exception to consideration -
Doctrine of Privity of Contract - Exceptions to the privity of contract - Standard form
ofContract.
Unit-II:
Capacity of the parties - Effect of Minor's Agreement - Contracts with insane persons
and persons disqualified by law - Concepts of Free Consent - Coercion - Undue
influence - Misrepresentation - Fraud - Mistake - Lawful Object - Immoral agreements
and various heads of public policy - illegal agreements – Uncertain agreements -
Wagering agreements - Contingent contracts - Void and Voidable contracts.

Unit-III:
Discharge of Contracts - By performance - Appropriation of payments - Performance
by joint promisors - Discharge by Novation - Remission - Accord and Satisfaction -
Discharge by impossibility of performance (Doctrine of Frustration)Discharge by
Breach - Anticipatory Breach - Actualbreach.
Unit-IV:
Quasi Contract - Necessaries supplied to a person who is incapable of entering into
a contract - Payment by an interested person - Liability to pay for non-gratuitous
acts - Rights of finder of lost goods – Things delivered by mistake or coercion -
Quantum merit - Remedies for breach of contract - Kinds of damages – liquidated
and unliquidated damages and penalty - Duty to mitigate.

Unit-V :
Specific Relief Act including 2018 Amendment- Recovering possession of
property - Specific performance of the contract – As a rule enforced by
courtRectification of instruments - Rescission of contracts as a rule enforced by
court- Cancellation of instruments-Declaratory Decrees-Preventive Relief-Injunctions -
Generally - Temporary and Perpetual injunctions - Mandatory & Prohibitory
injunctions -– Injunctions to perform negative agreement- Limited liability
partnership (LLP). Special provision for contracts relating to infrastructure projects
– Arbitration clause – A & C Arbitration and Conciliation Act. 1996. Impact of
COVID-19 on ”specific performance of contracts” engage expects –

Suggested Readings:
1. Anson: Law of Contract, Clarendon Press,Oxford.
2. Krishnan Nair: Law of Contract ,S.Gogia& Co.,Hyderabad.
3. G.C.V. Subba Rao: Law of Contract, S.Gogia& Co.,Hyderabad.
4. T.S.VenkateshaIyer: Law of Contract, revised by Dr.V.Krishnama Chary, S.
Gogia& Co.
5. Avatar Singh: Law of Contract , Eastern Book Company,Lucknow.

PAPER-II:
FAMILY LAW–I (Hindu Law)

Unit-I:
Sources of Hindu Law – Scope and application of Hindu Law – Schools of Hindu
Law - Mitakshara and Dayabhaga Schools – Concept of Joint Family, Coparcenary,
Joint Family Property and Coparcenary Property – Institution of Karta- Powers
and Functions of Karta - Pious Obligation - Partition – Debts and alienation of
property.

Unit-II:
Marriage - Definition - Importance of institution of marriage under Hindu Law –
Conditions of Hindu Marriage – Ceremonies and Registration – Monogamy –
Polygamy-Recent Trends in the institution of marriage.

Unit-III:
Matrimonial Remedies under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 - Restitution of
Conjugal Rights – Nullity of marriage – Judicial separation – Divorce –
Maintenance pendente lite – importance of conciliation- Role of Family Courts in
Resolution of matrimonialdisputes.

Unit-IV:
Concept of Adoption – Historical perspectives of adoption in India – In country and inter-
country adoptions - Law of Maintenance - Law of Guardianship – The Hindu
Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956 – The Hindu Minority and Guardianship
Act1956.
 Unit-V:
Succession – Intestate succession – Succession to the property of Hindu Male and
Female; Dwelling House – The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 as amended by the
Hindu Succession (Andhra Pradesh Amendment) Act, 1986 & the Hindu
Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 – Notional Partition – Classes of heirs–
Enlargement of limited estate of women into their absolute estate – Daughter’s right
to inherit ancestral property and impact of recent changes inlaw.

Suggested Readings:
1. Paras Diwan :Modern Hindu Law, Allahabad Agency,Delhi.
2. Paras Diwan: Family Law, Allahabad Agency,Delhi.
3. Mayne: Hindu Law - Customs and Usages , Bharat Law House, NewDelhi.
4. Sharaf: Law of Marriage andDivorce.
5. G.C.V. Subba Rao, Family Law in India, S. Gogia& Company,Hyderabad.
6. Mayne’s Treatise on Hindu Law & Usage, Bharath LawHouse.
7. Y.F. Jaya Kumar, Horizons of Family Law in India-Select Essays(2017) ,
Spandana Publications,Secunderabad

PAPER-III:
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-I
Unit-I:
Constitution-Meaning and Significance - Evolution of Modern Constitutions -
Classification of Constitutions- Indian Constitution - Historical Perspectives -
Government of India Act, 1919-Government of India Act, Framing of Indian
Constitution - Role of Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly

Unit-II:
Nature and Salient Features of Indian Constitution - Preamble to Indian
Constitution - Union and its Territories-Citizenship - General Principles relating to
Fundamental Rights(Art.13) - Definition of State – Doctrine of Judicial Review

Unit-III:
Right to Equality(Art.14-18) – The Constitution (124 Amendment Act 2019)
Freedoms and Restrictions under Art.19 -Protection against Ex-post facto law -
Guarantee against Double Jeopardy - Privilege against Self-incrimination - Right to
Life and Personal Liberty - Right to Education – Protection against Arrest and
Preventive Detention

Unit-IV:
Rights against Exploitation - Right to Freedom of Religion - Cultural and
Educational Rights - Right to Constitutional Remedies - Limitations on
Fundamental Rights (Art.31-A,31-B, 31-C, 358 & 359).
Unit-V:
Directive Principles of State Policy – Significance – Nature – Classification -
Application and Judicial Interpretation - Relationship between Fundamental Rights
and Directive Principles - Fundamental Duties – Significance - Judicial
Interpretation

Suggested Readings:
1. M.P.Jain, Indian Constitutional Law, Wadhwa& Co,Nagpur
2. V.N.Shukla, Constitution of India, Eastern Book Company,Lucknow
3. Granville Austin, Indian Constitution-Cornerstone of a Nation, OUP, New
Delhi
4. H.M.Seervai, Constitutional Law of India (in 3 Volumes),N.M.Tripathi,
Bombay
5. G.C.V.Subba Rao, Indian Constitutional Law, S.Gogia& Co.,Hyderabad
6. B.Shiva Rao: Framing of India’s Constitution (in 5 Volumes), Indian
Institute of Public Administration, NewDelhi
7. J.N.Pandey, Constitutional Law of India, Central Law Agency,Allahabad
8. Sujit Choudhry, MadhavKholsa and PratapBhanu Mehta, Oxford Handbook or
Constitutional Law, Oxford University Press.

PAPER-IV:
LAW OF TORTS INCLUDING MOTOR VEHICLE
ACCIDENTS AND CONSUMER PROTECTIONLAWS

Unit-I:
Nature of Law of Torts - Definition of Tort - Elements of Tort - Development of
Law of Torts in England and India - Wrongful Act and Legal Damage - Damnum
Sine Injuriaand Injuria Sine Damno- Tort distinguished from Crime and Breach of
Contract - General Principles of Liability in Torts - Fault - Wrongful intent -
Malice - Negligence - Liability without fault - Statutory liability - Parties to
proceedings.

Unit-II
General Defences to an action in Torts – Vicarious Liability - Liability of the State
for Torts – Defence of Sovereign Immunity – Joint Liability – Liability of Joint
Toreadors – Rule of Strict Liability (Ryland’s V Fletcher) – Rule of Absolute Liability
(MC Mehta vs. Union of India) – Occupiers liability – Extinction of liability – Waiver
and Acquiescence – Release – Accord and Satisfaction - Death.

Unit-III
Specific Torts - Torts affecting the person - Assault - Battery - False
Imprisonment – Malicious Prosecution - Nervous Shock - Torts affecting
Immovable Property - Trespass to land - Nuisance - Public Nuisance and Private
Nuisance - Torts relating to movable property – Liability arising out of accidents
(Relevant provisions of the Motor VehiclesAct).
Unit-IV
Defamation - Negligence - Torts against Business Relations - Injurious falsehood -
Negligent Misstatement - Passing off - Conspiracy - Torts affecting family relations
- Remedies-JudicialandExtra-judicialRemedies–Damages–KindsofDamages
– Assessment of Damages – Remoteness of damage - Injunctions - Death in
relation to tort - Action personalismoritur cumpersona.

Unit-V
Consumer Laws: Common Law and the Consumer - Duty to take care and liability
for negligence - Product Liability - Consumerism - Consumer Protection Act, 1986
- Salient features of the Act - Definition of Consumer - Rights of Consumers -
Defects in goods and deficiency in services – Unfair trade practices- Redressal
Machinery under the Consumer Protection Act – CCPA- Liability of the Service
Providers, Manufacturers and Traders under the Act –Remedies – Procedure for
filing a consumer for dispute– E-filing – Continuous cause of action - Civil &
Criminal liability – ADR & consumer - Penalties for misleading advertisement.

Suggested Readings:
1. Winfield &Jolowicz :Law of Tort, Sweet and Maxwell,London.
2. Salmond and Heuston :Law of Torts, edition, 2nd Indian reprint, Universal
Book traders, NewDelhi.
3. RamaswamyIyer: The Law of Torts, LexisNexis Butterworths, NewDelhi.
4. PSA Pillai’s: Law of Tort, Eastern Book Company,Lucknow.
5. Durga Das Basu: The Law of Torts, Prentice Hall of India, NewDelhi.
6. Ratanlal&Dhirajlal: The Law of Torts,LexisNexis.
7. R.K.Bangia: Law of Torts, Allahabad Law Agency,Allahabad.
8. Vivienne Harpwood: Law of Torts, Cavendish Publishing Ltd.London.
9. Hepple& Mathews: Tort - Cases and Materials, Butterworth, London.
10.D.N.Saraf: Law of Consumer Protection in India, Tripati,Bombay.