Tag: Property Law
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Cryptocurrency as Property: Madras High Court’s Ruling and the Indian Regulatory Framework
[Ashwasti Shravani is a 4th year B.B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at the National Law University Odisha)] On 25 October 2025, the Madras High Court delivered a landmark judgment in Rhutikumari v. Zanmai Labs Pvt. Ltdclassifying cryptocurrency as “property” under Indian law, giving legal recognition to investors’ ownership rights and establishing that crypto exchanges function as fiduciaries holding digital
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SEBI’s Denial of Relief to Pledgees in the Karvy Case
We had last month discussed the ex parte ad interim order passed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) wherein the regulator found that Karvy Stock Broking Limited (KSBL) had wrongfully pledged securities belonging to its clients to various lenders in exchange for funds borrowed. Since then, four lenders, (i) Bajaj Finance Limited,
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Arbitrating Disputes under the Transfer of Property Act, 1882
[Abhinav Sankaranarayanan is a III year B.A.L.L.B (Hons.) student at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata (WBNUJS)] Background On 28 February 2019, a Division Bench of the Supreme Court in Vidya Drolia v. Durga Trading Corporation revisited the convoluted jurisprudence surrounding the arbitrability of disputes governed by the provisions of the Transfer of
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The Death of the “Absolute Interest”
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Bombay High Court Clarifies Rights of Nominees in Shares
An intricate legal question that has befuddled various courts relates to the conflicts between the rights of nominees and those of successors in the case of ownership of various financial instruments, including shares of a company. As regards shares, the issue came to the fore in 2010 in the case of Harsha Nitin Kokate v.
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Arbitrability of Copyright Disputes
[The following guest post is contributed by Aditya Swarup, who is an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School. The author would like to thank Shivprasad Swaminthan, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School and Angad Mehta, Advocate, for their valuable comments.] In the recently delivered judgment in Eros International Media Ltd. v. Telemax Links India
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Assignability of Life Insurance Policies
The controversial practice of companies taking out “dead peasants” insurance on the life of their employees was depicted by Michael Moore in his film “Capitalism: A Love Story”. In this, companies took insurance policies on the lives of their employees and also paid the premium on them. In case of the death of their employees,
