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Thesavalamai is the traditional law of the Sri Lankan Tamil inhabitants of the Jaffna peninsula, codified by the Dutch during their colonial rule in 1707. The Thesawalamai is a collection of the Customs of the Malabar Inhabitants of the Province of Jaffna (collected by Dissawe Isaak) and given full force by the Regulation of 1806.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka (13A) is amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka, passed in 1987, which created Provincial Councils in Sri Lanka. [ 1 ] This amendment also made Sinhala and Tamil the official languages of the country and declared English the " link language ".
Jayewardene who came to office in July 1977 with a five-sixths majority passed the second amendment to the 1972 Constitution on 4 October 1977, which made the presidency an executive post. Under its provisions, then Prime Minister Jayawardene automatically became the first Executive President of Sri Lanka on 4 February 1978.
Herbert Broom′s text of 1858 on legal maxims lists the phrase under the heading ″Rules of logic″, stating: Reason is the soul of the law, and when the reason of any particular law ceases, so does the law itself. [9] ceteris paribus: with other things the same More commonly rendered in English as "All other things being equal."
Indian Bar Council (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act, 1954; The Agriculturists' Loans (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act, 1935; The Bar Councils and Legal Practitioners (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act, 1947; The Bhavani Reservoir Irrigation Cess Act, 1933; The Cattle-Trespass (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act, 1957; The Code of Civil Procedure (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act ...
Kandyan law defines immovable property as either Paraveni meaning ancestral property and acquired property in the case of inheritance from a deceased estate. The law defines the different levels rights of the deceased siblings, spouses and children, both legitimate or illegitimate to these two types of property.
Enable continuance of 69% reservation in Tamil Nadu by including the relevant Tamil Nadu Act under 9th Schedule of the constitution. 77th: Amend article 16. [85] 17 June 1995 A technical amendment to protect reservation to SCs and STs Employees in promotions. 78th: Amend schedule 9. [86] 30 August 1995
A constitutional right can be a prerogative or a duty, a power or a restraint of power, recognized and established by a sovereign state or union of states. Constitutional rights may be expressly stipulated in a national constitution, or they may be inferred from the language of a national constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, meaning that laws that contradict it are considered ...