This book has been specially designed for students pursuing the three-year or five-year degree course in law. The text presents an interesting and fresh approach to the subject, while covering the syllabus prescribed by the Bar Council of India. It deals with the principles of and procedure for drafting various notices, plaints, written statements, civil applications, marriage petitions, petitions under succession law, consumer law, criminal complaints and applications, appeal and revision and writ petitions. It also covers drafting of various deeds under the law of conveyancing such as mortgage deed, gift deed and adoption deed, supported by specimens. The second edition has been extensively revised and updated comprising of all recent statutory amendments and landmark judgments. Preserving the original style and structure of the work, the present edition embodies both the basic and the advanced practices and techniques of drafting along with specimens.

• Designed to be a practical guide as well as ready reckoner
• Lucidly elaborates the principles of drafting, pleading and conveyancing
• Explains the procedure for drafting notices, plaints, written statements, marriage petitions, applications, appeals, revision petition, writ petitions, criminal complaints, various deeds, etc.
• Substantive and procedural laws are described in detail at the beginning of every draft, for convenience of readers
• Contents of every draft are explained concisely and followed by the specimens
• Includes recent statutory amendments and landmark judgments

1. Principles of Legal Drafting
   
2. Notices
3. Pleadings
4. Plaint
5. Drafting of Civil Suits
6. Drafting of Written Statement and Its Principles
7. Civil Application and Execution Petition
8. Appeal, Review and Revision
9. Drafting of petitions under Matrimonial Laws
10. Drafting of Petitions under Law of Succession
11. Writ etition
12. Drafting of Complaints and Applications under Consumer Law
13. Petition and Applications under Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
14. Affidavits
15. Drafting and Pleadingg under Criminal Law
16. Conveyancing - Practice and Procedure