Goa, Daman and Diu (Administration) Act, 1962

The Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU) operated branches in Goa, Daman and Diu until the territories were liberated from Portuguese rule in 1961. On the eve of liberation BNU transferred assets to its Lisbon head office, leaving local depositors and borrowers in distress. The President of India promulgated the Goa, Daman…

The appellant obtained a prospecting licence and later a mining lease for an area in Goa after the territory was annexed by India. Respondent 1 had purchased four Portuguese "Titles of Manifest" before annexation and had applied for mining concessions, which were later deemed to have lapsed by the Indian authorities. H…

Syndicate Bank filed a suit in Goa to recover a loan advanced to Mr. Prabha D. Naik and others, alleging default on a promissory note. The trial court and the High Court dismissed the suit as barred by limitation, holding that the Portuguese Civil Code's Article 535 governed limitation in Goa. The Bank appealed, conten…

The dispute concerned two ancestral lands in Goa, "M" and "B", originally owned by the grandfather of brothers Suriaji and Gones. A 1915 sale deed conveyed portions of the lands to Suriaji, with an accompanying 1919 settlement deed stating that Suriaji had paid half the price on behalf of Gones and would transfer Gones…

The case concerned the succession of property belonging to a Goan domicile, Joaquim Mariano Pereira, who had bequeathed a Bombay immovable to one daughter while the other two daughters contested the applicability of the Portuguese Civil Code, 1867, to that property. The dispute centered on whether the Portuguese Civil …

The State of Goa filed an appeal against a High Court order that had held that certain judicial officers appointed in 1963 were "absorbed employees" entitled to the pay scales of posts created under the Portuguese administration. The appellants argued that the definition of "absorbed employee" in Section 2(a) of the Go…

The petitioner sought a writ under Article 32 of the Constitution directing all States and Union Territories to implement Section 6 of the Anand Marriage Act, 1909, which mandates rules for registering Sikh Anand Karaj marriages. The Court noted that while some jurisdictions had notified such rules, many had not, resul…