Although Juneteenth is generally seen as the end of slavery in the U.S., the reality is actually more complicated.

The central government filed its preliminary affidavit in the Supreme Court and seeks dismissal of petitions challenging constitutional validity of Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. The Centre opposes a ...

Story continues below this ad Kedar Nath then moved the Supreme Court, challenging the constitutional validity of Section 124A, a colonial ... “to acts involving intention or tendency to create ...

He highlighted the “Dramatic Performance Act,” which ... However, colonial laws do not have the same presumption of constitutionality. This means that when a colonial law is challenged, the government ...

The origins of this colonial-era law date back to the days before ... challenging the constitutional validity of the law. Declaring several sections of the Act ultra vires, the court had noted that ...

LAW REPORTS.; A Naval Case of Criminal Conversation-- The Validity of Divorces Obtained in other ... Jan. 19, 1865 Credit... The New York Times Archives See the article in its original ...

Former MP Chintamani Malviya, too, filed an application alleging that the law itself was violative of secularism and should be done away with. "The Act is void and unconstitutional for many reasons.

and the Evidence Act were replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA). The new laws introduce several ...

The Philippine Maritime Zones Act makes definite the country’s maritime scope, putting into law a declaration of sovereignty over territorial waters, as prescribed into the 1982 United Nations ...

part of the so-called Chapters which remain part of Cyprus law, despite being antiquated. This is the colonial system that the Republic inherited upon independence – and, though it’s slowly ...