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The Constitution of India in English 2026: page 353

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322                   THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                                (Seventh Schedule)

      5. Marriage and divorce; infants and minors; adoption; wills, intestacy
and succession; joint family and partition; all matters in respect of which
parties in judicial proceedings were immediately before the commencement of
this Constitution subject to their personal law.
      6. Transfer of property other than agricultural land; registration of deeds
and documents.
      7. Contracts, including partnership, agency, contracts of carriage, and
other special forms of contracts, but not including contracts relating to
agricultural land.
      8. Actionable wrongs.
      9. Bankruptcy and insolvency.                    e
     10. Trust and Trustees.                      od
     11. Administrators-general and official trustees.
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       [11A. Administration of Justice; constitution and organisation of all
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courts, except the Supreme Court and the High Courts.]
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     12. Evidence and oaths; recognition of laws, public acts and records, and
judicial proceedings.
     13. Civil procedure, including all matters included in the Code of Civil
Procedure at the commencement of this Constitution, limitation and arbitration.
     14. Contempt of court, but not including contempt of the Supreme Court.
     15. Vagrancy; nomadic and migratory tribes.
     16. Lunacy and mental deficiency, including places for the reception or
treatment of lunatics and mental deficients.
     17. Prevention of cruelty to animals.
     1
       [17A. Forests.
     17B. Protection of wild animals and birds.]
     18. Adulteration of foodstuffs and other goods.
     19. Drugs and poisons, subject to the provisions of entry 59 of List I with
respect to opium.
     20. Economic and social planning.
     1
       [20A. Population control and family planning.]

1. Entries 11A, 17A, 17B and 20A ins. by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment)
   Act, 1976, s. 57 (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).
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