CONTENTS
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Contents
List of Cases
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER II: DOCTRINAL RESEARCH
MEANING
MERITS
DOCTRINAL RESEARCH PROCESS
DOCTRINAL RESEARCH- AS A METHODOLOGY
CHAPTER IV: SIGNIFICANCE AND RELEVANCY OF DOCTRINAL RESEARCH IN MODERN LAW AND JUSTICE
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION
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Research and experimental development is formal work undertaken systematically to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humanity, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications . Research’, in simple terms, can be defined as ‘systematic investigation towards increasing the sum of human knowledge’. The Advance Learner’s Dictionary of Current English lays down the meaning of research as “a careful investigation or inquiry specially through search for new facts in any branch of knowledge.” Thus, research means to search or to find out or examined again. ‘Legal research’ is research in that branch of knowledge which deals with principles of law and legal institutions. Legal research works may be divided into doctrinal research and non-doctrinal or empirical research. Doctrinal research is concerned with the formulation of legal ‘doctrines’ through the analysis of legal rules. This type of research involves analysis of legal proposition or legal concept. The sources of data are the reports of the Applelate Courts and Conventional Legal Theory. Empirical research, on the other hand, is defined as research based on observed and measured phenomena. The basic point of
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