Great work! If relying only on government sources is not a pre-requisite, you could also consider this site for glossary of terms under Indian laws (https://nyaaya.org/glossary/). I am not associated with them, but they do incredible work in providing digital, accessible legal information to the general public. And they make it available under creative commons license.
Thank you! That's a really good glossary. Beautiful plain English. But yeah, so far I'm relying on government texts, and statutes (actual laws) if possible. Mostly to increase confidence in the resource. But also to not worry about copyright issues.
By the way, if you find any English-language Indian glossaries published by the government, I'd be very interested. I've done some searching.
Okay- so all of the legislations and government notifications by the central/federal government are now officially published only in digital form and are available on this website (https://egazette.nic.in/).
For your purposes, (a dictionary of key terms, unfortunately there is no government publication. However, one good hack you can consider is to look at the Section 3 of the General Clauses Act, 1897. The terms defined under this Act will govern the meaning in all the central/federal legislations and rules unless those legislations specifically define these terms. The terms defined under General Clauses Act include terms such as affidavit, immovable property, person etc. (essentially terms similar to the ones used in your dictionary). Here is the link; hope you find it useful (https://www.indiacode.nic.in/show-data?actid=AC_CEN_3_20_000...)
p.s.- https://www.indiacode.nic.in is also a government website where you can find copies of legislations and rules.
That Section 3 is fantastic. Thank you. I actually prefer definitions directly from statutes, because they're actual law and the copyright situation is better too. Are you generally familiar with Indian law? And a Python programmer? :-)
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Great work! If relying only on government sources is not a pre-requisite, you could also consider this site for glossary of terms under Indian laws (https://nyaaya.org/glossary/). I am not associated with them, but they do incredible work in providing digital, accessible legal information to the general public. And they make it available under creative commons license.
Thank you! That's a really good glossary. Beautiful plain English. But yeah, so far I'm relying on government texts, and statutes (actual laws) if possible. Mostly to increase confidence in the resource. But also to not worry about copyright issues.
By the way, if you find any English-language Indian glossaries published by the government, I'd be very interested. I've done some searching.
Okay- so all of the legislations and government notifications by the central/federal government are now officially published only in digital form and are available on this website (https://egazette.nic.in/).
For your purposes, (a dictionary of key terms, unfortunately there is no government publication. However, one good hack you can consider is to look at the Section 3 of the General Clauses Act, 1897. The terms defined under this Act will govern the meaning in all the central/federal legislations and rules unless those legislations specifically define these terms. The terms defined under General Clauses Act include terms such as affidavit, immovable property, person etc. (essentially terms similar to the ones used in your dictionary). Here is the link; hope you find it useful (https://www.indiacode.nic.in/show-data?actid=AC_CEN_3_20_000...)
p.s.- https://www.indiacode.nic.in is also a government website where you can find copies of legislations and rules.
That Section 3 is fantastic. Thank you. I actually prefer definitions directly from statutes, because they're actual law and the copyright situation is better too. Are you generally familiar with Indian law? And a Python programmer? :-)