Overview: As a Judiciary Aspirant, you must prioritize reading directly from the Bare Act. Most law students find it challenging to understand and read from the bare act, but reading the Bare Act will give you a complete understanding of the law.
To make it easy for all the Judiciary Aspirants, we have made it easy in 5 simple steps. Read this blog and understand how you should read Bare Acts and its benefits.
In this blog, we will cover:

• What is a Bare Act and how you should read a Bare Act?
• Short Tricks to Read Bare Acts.
• How to read Bare Acts effectively.
• How to spot important sections of the Bare Act.

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What is a Bare Act and why you should read directly from the Bare Act?

A Bare Act is the precise verbatim text of a specific enactment or statute enacted by the legislature. It serves as an exact replica of the original legislation, accessible to the general public. However, it is primarily utilized by individuals within the legal profession or those engaged in legal matters.

If you are a judiciary aspirant, you must read Bare Acts to better understand the section and the subject overall.

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Why you should read Bare Act?

Before reading a Bare Act, it's crucial to understand the legislative intent behind its enactment. Understanding the purpose and objectives of the specific Act is essential.

Most Acts feature a long title at the outset, which succinctly defines the primary aim of the legislation. For example, the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973, is titled "An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to criminal procedure." This title provides a clear indication of the Act's scope and purpose.

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How to read Bare Acts for 2024 Judiciary Exams

Selecting the Bare Act Edition

When choosing a Bare Act edition, you must decide whether you prefer the diglot edition or the English version. In a diglot bare act, one side of the text contains sections written in Hindi, while the other side displays sections written in English.

Referring to the Hindi Translation as well

If you encounter difficulty understanding a particular phrase in English, you can refer to its Hindi translation.

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Multiple Readings for Understanding

The language used in Bare Acts can be complex, so it's essential to read them multiple times to grasp the subject matter's authenticity.

Breaking Down Sentences

Many sections contain lengthy and complicated sentences, making them challenging to understand. In such cases, it's helpful to break the sentences into smaller parts and read them slowly.

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Should I Read First Read Commentary or Bare Ac for Judiciary exams?

Judicial aspirants are often confused if they should read Bare Act for judiciary exams or commentary books. Here are some super tips for you!

• Reading commentary from books is comparatively an easier task than reading bare acts.
• Firstly, read Bare Act from the judiciary exam.
• Interpret that section as per your understanding. Know the practical application for that topic. 
• Afterwards, read commentary books or textbooks to check that you interpreted that specific section correctly or not.

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Short Tricks to Read Bare Act for Judiciary Exams 2024

Every bare Act contains several sections. Memorizing all of them can be difficult for anyone, therefore to have all the sections on tips 

Here are instructions to help you memorize the Bare Act for Judiciary Exams. 

• Refer to Previous Year Papers and mark all the important sections that you spot in the Bare Act Index.
• Go through the content or the index page of the Bare Act once you have spotted the important sections and focus a little more on them.
• Memorise all the section number and section names.
• You can also make a list of important sections in your notebook for your revision.
• Revise these section numbers multiple times. The more you revise the better you get.  
• Solve as many questions as possible from the previous year's question papers for Judiciary Exams, as this will help you understand the critical sections.
• Write the section and article names in a notebook. Practice it multiple times during your law course. 
• Prepare mnemonics of sections to remember them for the long term. 

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5 Steps to Master Bare Act for Judiciary Exams 2024

Bare acts are the primary source of all law questions in the state-level judiciary exams.

1. Know the Purpose of the Bare Act

Once the purpose of an act is clear, you are halfway through!

• Purpose and object of the Act: Understand why the legislature enabled a particular action.
• Understand: Understand the long title that defines Bare Act's object.
• Relation: Relate every section, Clause, and illustration with their purposes, as it will help you get a clear understanding of the law.

For example, the extended title of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973, is "An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to criminal procedure."

By this, we understand that the object of this Act is to consolidate and amend the laws relating to criminal procedure.

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2. Read the Interpretation/definition of Clause

• Purpose: To understand the law deeply, you should understand the meaning of the law passed.
• Remember, it is essential to read the preamble and interpretation clause of the base act.
• This will help you know the primary objective of that Act and understand the action more clearly.
• The basic definitions of the Act are generally provided in section 2 of the bare Act.
• It would be best if you went through that initially to get more clarity on a particular act.
• For the undefined words in the interpretation or definition clause, refer to the General Clauses Act, 1891, to find its meaning.

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For example, Section 3 of the Transfer of Property Act 1882 provides an interpretation clause instead of Section 2.

3. Give Special Attention to Special Words

Take your magnifying glass, and wake up the Sherlock Holmes inside you by reading the Bare Acts for the judiciary.

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• Look out for words: While reading bare acts, you should give special attention to some words like "shall", "may", "should", "and", etc. 

For example, Facts are the occasion, cause, or effect of facts in an issue. 

Facts which are the occasion, cause or effect, immediate or otherwise, of relevant facts, facts in issue, or which constitute the State of things under which they happened, or which allowed their occurrence or transaction, are appropriate.

• Illustrations

(a) The question is whether A robbed B. The facts that, shortly before the robbery, B went to a fair with money in his possession and that he showed it, or mentioned that he had it to a third person, are relevant.

(b) The question is whether A murdered B. Marks on the ground, produced by a struggle at or near the place where the murder was committed, are relevant facts.

(c) The question is whether A poisoned B. The State of B's health before the symptoms ascribed to poison and the habits of B, known to A, which allowed the administration of toxin, are relevant facts.

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4. Take the Literal Meaning of Bare Acts

• Interpret the Bare Act as it is.
• Understand literal interpretation in the first principle of interpreting a statute.
• Do not over-interpret or under-interpret the Bare Act, as it can modify the whole meaning of the section.

5. Break Sentence into Parts

• Strategize: Many sections are lengthy and complicated sentences that are very difficult to understand.
• Break the long sentences of Bare Acts into small parts for better understanding. 
• Take pauses when you see the comma or any unique character.
• Do not read bare Act too fast or too slow. 
• Read with the optimal speed to understand the flow of the Bare Act.

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For instance - If you want to read the following line from CRPC.

"Where, after an area has been declared or deemed to have been declared to be a metropolitan area, the population of such area falls below one million, such area shall, on and from such date as the State Government may, by notification, specify in this behalf, cease to be a metropolitan area; but notwithstanding such cesser, any inquiry, trial or appeal pending immediately before such cesser before any Court or Magistrate in such area shall continue to be dealt with under this Code, as if such cesser had not taken place."

Break down the sentence after every comma. So, instead of reading this massive block of text. Read the following:

• Where, after an area has been declared or deemed to have been declared a metropolitan area.
• The population falls below one million,
• Such area shall cease to be a metropolitan area on and from such date as the State Government.
• Any inquiry, trial, or appeal pending immediately before any such Court or Magistrate shall continue to be dealt with in the same area under this Code.

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Conclusion:

• Make a detailed list of all the topics and headings that could be asked in the judiciary exam.
• Mark essential terms from the Bare Act topics and study these on a high-priority basis.
• Use bullet points or short sentences to make your points clear and crisp. 
• For prelims, study each topic present in the index. Hence, note down essential issues to be reviewed or focused on in the index. 
• Make sure your notes are neat and easy to read.
• Use different colour pens for easy recognition of terminologies. 
• Use abbreviations, mnemonics, or mindmaps while preparing any topic of the Bare Act.
• Use a red, blue, and pink highlighter to mark priority areas, moderate priority areas, and most minor priority areas, respectively. 
• Use sticky notes or a bookmark to note important definitions, meanings, or terminology. This will help them study topics efficiently and concentrate more on critical concepts.