Datasets:

anabaena
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section10-divorce-corpus

Error code:   DatasetGenerationError
Exception:    ValueError
Message:      Expected object or value
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1835, in _prepare_split_single
                  for key, table in generator:
                                    ^^^^^^^^^
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 621, in wrapped
                  for item in generator(*args, **kwargs):
                              ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 281, in _generate_tables
                  examples = [ujson_loads(line) for line in batch.splitlines()]
                              ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/utils/json.py", line 20, in ujson_loads
                  return pd.io.json.ujson_loads(*args, **kwargs)
                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
              ValueError: Expected object or value
              
              The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1379, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
                  parquet_operations, partial, estimated_dataset_info = stream_convert_to_parquet(
                                                                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
                      builder, max_dataset_size_bytes=max_dataset_size_bytes
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                  )
                  ^
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 956, in stream_convert_to_parquet
                  builder._prepare_split(split_generator=splits_generators[split], file_format="parquet")
                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1702, in _prepare_split
                  for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
                                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
                      gen_kwargs=gen_kwargs, job_id=job_id, **_prepare_split_args
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                  ):
                  ^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1887, in _prepare_split_single
                  raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
              datasets.exceptions.DatasetGenerationError: An error occurred while generating the dataset

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doc_id string	url string	title string	court string	date string	year int64	citations string	grounds list	primary_ground string	disposal string	marriage_dissolved string	relief string	non_merits bool	possible_duplicate_of unknown	petitioner_gender string	statutes_cited list	precedents_cited list	segments list	label_source dict
1401518	https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1401518/	Mrs. Pragati Varghese And Etc. vs Cyril George Varghese And Etc. on 6 May, 1997	Bombay High Court	1997-05-06	1,997	Equivalent citations: AIR1997BOM349, 1997(4)BOMCR551, 1997BOMCR(CRI)~, (1997)3BOMLR333, II(1997)DMC407, 1997(3)MHLJ602	[ "constitutional_validity", "adultery", "desertion", "cruelty", "wife_specific" ]	constitutional_validity	remanded	unclear	unclear	false	null	wife	[ "Section 1", "Section 10", "Section 112", "Section 125", "Section 13", "Section 16", "Section 17", "Section 22", "Section 3", "Section 377", "Section 488", "Section 498", "Section 7" ]	[]	[ { "type": "facts", "p_ids": [ "pre_1" ], "text": "ORDER\n \n\n Agarwal, J." }, { "type": "law", "p_ids": [ "p_1", "p_2", "p_3", "p_4", "blockquote_1", "blockquote_2", "blockquote_3", "blockquote_4", "p_5", "p_6", "p_...	{ "grounds": "rule", "disposal": "rule", "marriage_dissolved": "rule", "relief": "rule", "petitioner": "rule" }
1591531	https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1591531/	Ammini E.J. And Etc. vs Union Of India (Uoi) And Ors. on 24 February, 1995	Kerala High Court	1995-02-24	1,995	Equivalent citations: AIR1995KER252, AIR 1995 KERALA 252, (1995) 1 KER LJ 624	[ "constitutional_validity", "adultery", "desertion", "cruelty" ]	constitutional_validity	allowed	unclear	unclear	false	null	unclear	["Section 10","Section 112","Section 13","Section 13B","Section 18","Section 2","Section 22","Sectio(...TRUNCATED)	[]	[{"type":"facts","p_ids":["pre_1"],"text":"JUDGMENT\n\n \n\nRamakrishnan, J."},{"type":"law","p_ids"(...TRUNCATED)	{ "grounds": "rule", "disposal": "rule", "marriage_dissolved": "rule", "relief": "rule", "petitioner": "rule" }
1353346	https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1353346/	P.E. Mathew vs Union Of India (Uoi) on 3 May, 1999	Kerala High Court	1999-05-03	1,999	"Equivalent citations: AIR1999KER345, AIR 1999 KERALA 345, ILR(KER) 1999 (2) KER 751, (1999) 1 KER L(...TRUNCATED)	[ "constitutional_validity" ]	constitutional_validity	dismissed	unclear	unclear	false	null	unclear	[ "Section 0", "Section 10", "Section 17", "Section 18", "Section 20", "Section 7", "Section 8" ]	[]	[{"type":"facts","p_ids":["pre_1"],"text":"JUDGMENT\n \n\n Ar. Lakshmanan, J."},{"type":"conclusion"(...TRUNCATED)	{ "grounds": "rule", "disposal": "rule", "marriage_dissolved": "rule", "relief": "rule", "petitioner": "rule" }
1196471	https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1196471/	P.V. Josheph Christian vs Deenamma Josheph Christian on 30 October, 2002	Gujarat High Court	2002-10-30	2,002	Equivalent citations: II(2004)DMC592, (2003)1GLR196	[ "adultery", "desertion" ]	adultery	disposed_of	unclear	unclear	false	null	unclear	[ "Section 10", "Section 11", "Section 14", "Section 16", "Section 17", "Section 8" ]	[]	[{"type":"facts","p_ids":["pre_1"],"text":"JUDGMENT \n \n\nJ.N. Bhatt, J."},{"type":"law","p_ids":["(...TRUNCATED)	{ "grounds": "rule", "disposal": "rule", "marriage_dissolved": "rule", "relief": "rule", "petitioner": "rule" }
1667509	https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1667509/	Pasumpon Gandhi vs Shirely Gandhi on 28 November, 2002	Madras High Court	2002-11-28	2,002		[ "adultery" ]	adultery	allowed	yes	dissolution	false	null	husband	[ "Section 10", "Section 12", "Section 13", "Section 19", "Section 23" ]	[]	[{"type":"law","p_ids":["pre_1","p_1","p_2","p_3","p_4"],"text":"IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT (...TRUNCATED)	{ "grounds": "rule", "disposal": "rule", "marriage_dissolved": "rule", "relief": "rule", "petitioner": "rule" }
2641238	https://indiankanoon.org/doc/2641238/	Abhishek Kerketta vs Shobha Kujur on 14 July, 2026	Jharkhand High Court	2026-07-14	2,026		[ "cruelty", "desertion" ]	cruelty	dismissed	unclear	unclear	false	null	husband	[ "Section 10", "Section 19", "Section 2", "Section 3", "Section 32", "Section 621" ]	[]	[{"type":"facts","p_ids":["pre_1","p_1"],"text":"2026:JHHC:20890-DB\n\n\n\n IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHA(...TRUNCATED)	{ "grounds": "rule", "disposal": "rule", "marriage_dissolved": "rule", "relief": "rule", "petitioner": "rule" }
893002	https://indiankanoon.org/doc/893002/	Smt. Deepika Alizabeth Couto vs Gabriel Anthony Couto on 3 October, 1977	Allahabad High Court	1977-10-03	1,977	"Equivalent citations: AIR1978ALL27, AIR 1978 ALLAHABAD 27, 1977 ALL WC 591 (1978) 4 ALL LR 7, (1978(...TRUNCATED)	[ "cruelty" ]	cruelty	dismissed	unclear	unclear	false	null	wife	[ "Section 10", "Section 16", "Section 17", "Section 4", "Section 55", "Section 8" ]	[]	[{"type":"facts","p_ids":["pre_1"],"text":"JUDGMENT\n \n\n M.N. Shukla, J."},{"type":"conclusion","p(...TRUNCATED)	{ "grounds": "rule", "disposal": "rule", "marriage_dissolved": "rule", "relief": "rule", "petitioner": "rule" }
210422	https://indiankanoon.org/doc/210422/	Dr. Dwaraka Bai vs Professor Nainan Mathews on 28 January, 1953	Madras High Court	1953-01-28	1,953	Equivalent citations: AIR1953MAD792, AIR 1953 MADRAS 792	[ "adultery", "desertion", "cruelty" ]	adultery	dismissed	no	none	false	null	unclear	[ "Section 10", "Section 112", "Section 35", "Section 488" ]	[]	[{"type":"facts","p_ids":["pre_1","p_1","p_2","p_3","p_4","blockquote_1"],"text":"JUDGMENT\n \n\n Pa(...TRUNCATED)	{ "grounds": "rule", "disposal": "rule", "marriage_dissolved": "rule", "relief": "rule", "petitioner": "rule" }
1316952	https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1316952/	M.T. Carunya vs S. Joseph Chellappa on 15 September, 1995	Madras High Court	1995-09-15	1,995	Equivalent citations: (1996)1MLJ409	[ "adultery" ]	adultery	confirmed	yes	dissolution	false	[ "1858140", "260116" ]	wife	["Section 10","Section 22","Section 3","Section 32","Section 4","Section 488","Section 494","Section(...TRUNCATED)	[]	[{"type":"facts","p_ids":["pre_1","p_1"],"text":"ORDER\n \n\nSrinivasan, J.\n1. The wife is the peti(...TRUNCATED)	{ "grounds": "rule", "disposal": "rule", "marriage_dissolved": "rule", "relief": "rule", "petitioner": "rule" }
1858140	https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1858140/	M.T. Carunya vs S. Joseph Chellappa on 15 September, 1995	Madras High Court	1995-09-15	1,995	Equivalent citations: 1996(1)CTC573	[ "adultery" ]	adultery	confirmed	yes	dissolution	false	[ "1316952", "260116" ]	wife	["Section 10","Section 22","Section 3","Section 32","Section 4","Section 488","Section 494","Section(...TRUNCATED)	[]	[{"type":"facts","p_ids":["pre_1","p_1"],"text":"ORDER\n \n\nSrinivasan, J.\n1. The wife is the peti(...TRUNCATED)	{ "grounds": "rule", "disposal": "rule", "marriage_dissolved": "rule", "relief": "rule", "petitioner": "rule" }

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Indian Divorce Act, 1869 — Section 10 Case Corpus

A curated and structured corpus of judicial opinions and rulings from the Supreme Court of India and High Courts concerning Section 10 (Grounds for Dissolution of Marriage) of the Divorce Act, 1869 (governing Christian matrimonial causes in India).

Corpus Overview

Corpus Size: 175 retained judgments spanning from pre-independence through modern rulings (post-2001 Act 51 amendment).
Format:
- labeled/cases.jsonl: Structured metadata, outcome taxonomy, statutory grounds, relief, court, year, and judgment tail text.
- parsed/: Clean extracted paragraphs and sentences with rhetorical role annotations (Facts, Issue, Reasoning, Ruling, Procedural, Citation).
- raw/: Raw judgment HTML documents.
- index/: Pre-computed hybrid search index (TF-IDF sparse vectorizer & matrix, sentence-transformer dense embeddings, and parquet metadata).

Legal Taxonomy & Tags

Every case in labeled/cases.jsonl is classified under standardized statutory and procedural dimensions:

1. Grounds (`ground`)

adultery: Section 10(1)(i)
conversion: Section 10(1)(ii)
unsound_mind: Section 10(1)(iii)
leprosy: Section 10(1)(iv)
venereal_disease: Section 10(1)(v)
not_heard_alive: Section 10(1)(vi)
restitution_non_compliance: Section 10(1)(vii)
desertion: Section 10(1)(viii) (willful desertion for 2+ years)
cruelty: Section 10(1)(ix) (mental or physical cruelty)
rape_bestiality: Section 10(2)
nullity: Section 19 grounds (impotency, consanguinity, lunacy, force/fraud)
mutual_consent: Section 10A (introduced by Act 51 of 2001)
constitutional_validity: High Court & Supreme Court challenges (e.g., Ammini E.J., Mary Sonia Zachariah)
procedural: Maintenance, transfer, condonation, delays, Section 17 confirmation.

2. Outcomes (`outcome`)

allowed: Petition or appeal granted in favour of petitioner.
dismissed: Petition or appeal rejected.
decree_absolute: Decree confirmed under Section 17.
decree_refused: Confirmation refused or decree nisi discharged.
remanded: Remitted to trial court for fresh evidence or findings.
partly_allowed: Relief granted in part (e.g. maintenance allowed, divorce declined).
unclear: Ambiguous final order or interim procedural order.

3. Marriage Dissolved (`marriage_ended`)

yes: Legal dissolution, decree absolute, or marriage annulled.
no: Marriage preserved, petition dismissed, or restitution ordered.
unclear: Procedural order or interim matter.

4. Rhetorical Paragraph Roles

Facts: Factual background, marriage solemnization, living arrangements.
Issue: Substantive questions of law or statutory interpretation.
Reasoning: Evidentiary evaluation, burden of proof analysis, legal doctrine.
Ruling: Operative decree, dissolution order, costs, or disposal.
Procedural: Interim applications, service of summons, condonation.
Citation: Precedents, statutory provisions, and external authorities cited.

Usage

import json

with open("data/labeled/cases.jsonl", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    cases = [json.loads(line) for line in f]

print(f"Loaded {len(cases)} cases.")

Disclaimer

This dataset is compiled for legal research, NLP analysis, and educational purposes. Judicial records are public domain documents in India. It does not constitute legal advice.

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