S.No.

List of Doctrines

Meaning

Section Number/Topic

1.        

Principle of caveat emptor

Let the buyer beware

Section 16

2.        

Res Perit Domino

When a thing is lost or destroyed, it is the loss of the person who owns it

Section 26

3.        

Nemo dat quod non habet

No one can pass a better title than he himself has

Section 27

4.        

Nemo plus juris transferre ad alium potest quam ipse habet

No one can transfer to another a larger right than he himself has

Section 27

5.        

Lex posterior derogate prior

Later law repeals an earlier law

Section 65

6.        

Lex specialis derogate legi generali

Special law repeals general laws

Section 65