Caveat

  • Racently, Cheief Justice of India (CJI) reprimandad a law student for filing a caveat in "shailendra Mani Tripathi v. Union of India & Others”.
  • In common parlance, a caveat refers to “warning” or “caution”.
  • However, legally it connotes a “formal notice requesting the court to refrain from taking some specified action without giving prior notice to the person lodging the caveat.
  • The person lodging the caveat is called a “caveator”.
  • Inserted by the Amendment Act of 1976, added after the Law Commission’s recommendation, Section 148A of the Civil Procedure Code (CPC) explains when a person has a right to lodge a caveat as “where ....
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