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Judiciary exams: Civil Judge / PCS-J

For law graduates preparing for a state's judicial service. Each state's page gives the eligibility and exam pattern from that state's own notice or rules (with the link and the day we read it), says which cycle the facts are from, and has a free mock on the bare acts.

Uttar Pradesh — U.P. Judicial Service Civil Judge (Junior Division) Examination — PCS (J)
Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC)
Bihar — Bihar Judicial Services Competitive Examination (Civil Judge)
Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC)
Madhya Pradesh — Civil Judge, Junior Division (Entry Level) Examination
High Court of Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan — Civil Judge Cadre — Rajasthan Judicial Service
Rajasthan High Court
Delhi — Delhi Judicial Service Examination (Civil Judge)
High Court of Delhi

Bare acts: section maps

The sections most asked about, with the heading each carries on India Code (the Government of India's database of Acts). Open a section on India Code to read its text. Headings read on 27 October 2026; the line under each Act is Shishya's own summary (AI-assisted).

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

The procedure of civil courts: which court hears a suit and where it is filed, how a suit is started, and the routes of appeal, review and revision. Its detailed procedure sits in the Orders and Rules of its First Schedule.

Section 9 — Courts to try all civil suits unless barred
Section 10 — Stay of suit
Section 11 — Res judicata
Section 15 — Court in which suits to be instituted
Section 16 — Suits to be instituted where subject-matter situate
Section 20 — Other suits to be instituted where defendants reside or cause of action arises
Section 26 — Institution of suits
Section 80 — Notice
Section 89 — Settlement of disputes outside the Court
Section 96 — Appeal from original decree
Section 100 — Second appeal
Section 114 — Review
Section 115 — Revision
Section 151 — Saving of inherent powers of Court

The Indian Contract Act, 1872

When an agreement becomes an enforceable contract, what makes it void or voidable, what happens on breach, and special contracts such as indemnity, guarantee and agency.

Section 2 — Interpretation-clause
Section 10 — What agreements are contracts
Section 11 — Who are competent to contract
Section 23 — What considerations and objects are lawful, and what not
Section 25 — Agreement without consideration, void, unless it is in writing and registered, or is a promise to compensate for something done, or is a promise to pay a debt barred by limitation law
Section 56 — Agreement to do impossible act
Section 73 — Compensation for loss or damage caused by breach of contract
Section 74 — Compensation for breach of contract where penalty stipulated for
Section 124 — "Contract of indemnity" defined
Section 126 — "Contract of guarantee", "surety", "principal debtor" and "creditor"
Section 182 — "Agent" and "principal" defined

The Specific Relief Act, 1963

Remedies other than money damages: recovering possession of property, specific performance of contracts, declarations and injunctions.

Section 5 — Recovery of specific immovable property
Section 6 — Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property
Section 10 — Cases in which specific performance of contract enforceable
Section 34 — Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right
Section 38 — Perpetual injunction when granted
Section 39 — Mandatory injunctions

The Limitation Act, 1963

The time limits for suits, appeals and applications (set out in its Schedule), and the rules that stop, extend or exclude time.

Section 3 — Bar of limitation
Section 5 — Extension of prescribed period in certain cases
Section 14 — Exclusion of time of proceeding bona fide in court without jurisdiction
Section 18 — Effect of acknowledgment in writing

The Transfer of Property Act, 1882

Transfers of property between living persons, including sale, mortgage, lease and gift, and doctrines such as part performance and transfers during a pending suit.

Section 5 — “Transfer of property” defined
Section 52 — Transfer of property pending suit relating thereto
Section 53A — Part performance
Section 54 — “Sale” defined
Section 58 — Mortgage, mortgagor, mortgagee, mortgage-money and mortgage-deed defined
Section 105 — Lease defined
Section 122 — “Gift” defined

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

India's main criminal code, which replaced the Indian Penal Code, 1860: general exceptions and the offences and their punishments.

Section 100 — Culpable homicide
Section 101 — Murder
Section 103 — Punishment for murder
Section 303 — Theft
Section 308 — Extortion
Section 309 — Robbery
Section 310 — Dacoity
Section 316 — Criminal breach of trust
Section 318 — Cheating

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Criminal procedure, replacing the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: first information, investigation, arrest, bail, trial and the High Court's inherent powers.

Section 173 — Information in cognizable cases
Section 478 — In what cases bail to be taken
Section 480 — When bail may be taken in case of non-bailable offence
Section 482 — Direction for grant of bail to person apprehending arrest
Section 528 — Saving of inherent powers of High Court

The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

The law of evidence, replacing the Indian Evidence Act, 1872: relevancy of facts, confessions, documents and electronic records.

Section 22 — Confession caused by inducement, threat, coercion or promise, when irrelevant in criminal proceeding
Section 23 — Confession to police officer
Section 57 — Primary evidence
Section 63 — Admissibility of electronic records