Status - Indian Laws - General

Expression status In P. Ramanatha Aiyar s Advance Law Lexicon, 3rd Edn. Vol.4, at p.4469, the expression status has been defined as under: Status is a much discussed term which, according to the best modern expositions, includes the sum total of a man s personal rights and duties (Salmond, Jurisprudence 253, 257), or, to be verbally accurate, of his capacity for rights and duties. (Holland, Jurisprudence 88). The status of a person means his personal legal condition only so far as his personal rights and burdens are concerned. Duggamma v. Ganeshayya, AIR 1965 Mys 97 at 101. [Indian Evidence Act (1 of 1872), Section 41.] In the language of jurisprudence status is a condition of membership of a group of which powers and duties are exclusively determined by law and not by agreement between the parties concerned. (Roshan Lal Tandon v. Union of India, 1967 SLR 832). The said expression has been defined in Black s Law Dictionary meaning : Standing; state or condition; social position. The legal relation of individual to rest of the community. The rights, duties, capacities and incapacities which determine a person to a given class. A legal personal relationship, not temporary in its nature nor terminable at the mere will of the parties, with which third persons and the state are concerned. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH VERSUS YOGESH CHANDRA DUBEY - 2006 (9) TMI 571 - SUPREME COURT