• Minimum duration of imprisonment of 24 hours is provided under section 510 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
• Lok Adalats have been created under the Legal Services Authority Act.
• Federal Court constituted under the Government of India Act, 1935 had the original, appellate and advisory jurisdictions.
• A seat of Member of Parliament can be stated vacant if he absents himself from the concerned House for a continuous period of two months.
• The First Law Officer of the Government of India is the Attorney General.
• The quorum of the Parliament is fixed at one-tenth of the total membership of the House.
• Common consciousness of people leads to the origin of the customs.
• Term ‘corpus’ means physical control of the subject.
• ‘Immunity’ is defined as the opposite of liability.
• The term ‘right in rem’ means right available against the whole world or against the people.
• Bentham was the champion of the codified law.
• The role of judges has been very creative in the common law countries.
• Austin termed customs as positive morality.
• For HLA Hart, Law is the union of primary rules of the obligation and the secondary rules.
• A norm can derive its validity from another higher norm; this higher norm derives its validity from another higher norm. This derivation continues but ultimately there is a norm on which all norms rest. This norm is Grundnorm.
