S. No. | List of Doctrines | Meaning | Section Number/Topic |
1 | Doctrine of Factum Valet | A fact cannot be altered by hundred texts | Schools |
2 | Leges Posteriores Priores Contrarias Abrogant | Later laws repeal earlier laws inconsistent therewith | Section 4 (HMA) |
3 | Optima Legum Interpres Est Consuetudo | The best interpreter of laws is custom | Section 5 (HMA) |
4 | Principle of consortium | Restitution of Conjugal Rights | Section 9 (HMA) |
5 | A Mensa Et Thoro | From Bed and Board | Section 10 (HMA) |
6 | Animus Deserendi | Intention to desert | Section 13 (HMA) |
7 | A Vinculo Matrimonii | From the bond of matrimony | Section 13 (HMA) |
8 | A communi observantia non est recedendum | There should be no departure from common observance or usage | Section 13B (HMA) |
9 | Fair Trial Rule | It prevents hasty recourse to legal proceedings before the parties have made real efforts to save their marriage from disaster. | Section 14 (HMA) |
10 | Doctrine of Accretion | Property acquired with the aid/assistance of the ancestral property | Coparcenary Property |
11 | Doctrine of Blending | Separate property of a member thrown into the common stock with the intention of abandoning all separate claims on it and to such an extent that it cannot be distinguished from the joint family property. | Coparcenary Property |
12 | Doctrine of Detriment | Property acquired at the cost of the joint family property | Coparcenary Property |
13 | Principle of propinquity | One who is nearer in blood relationship succeeds | Law of inheritance |
14 | Principle of religious efficacy or spiritual benefits | A person who confers more religious benefit on the deceased is preferred to those who confer less spiritual benefit. | Law of succession |
15 | Principle of owelty or equality of partition | Where no balancing is possible due to difference in the value of the properties, then such items Can be allotted to one person, while other is given a compensation in terms of money equivalent. | Partition |
16 | Qui in utero est, pro jam nato habetur, quoties de ejus commodo quaeritur | He who is in womb is considered as born as far as benefits are considered | Section 20 (HSA) |
17 | Nemo ex suo delicto meliorem suam conditionem facere potest | No one can perfect his condition by a crime | Section 25 (HSA) |
18 | Doctrine of escheat | The property of a person who dies without the heirs is transferred to the State | Section 29 (HSA) |