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Legal Reasoning Questions Based on Previous Papers
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1. According to Professor Goodhart, a ratio decidendi of a case is:
2. A bench of the Supreme Court confronted with two conflicting decisions of equal value rendered earlier, would be well advised to:
3. Who holds the view that possession is protected because every act of violence is unlawful?
4. Which one of the following is the correlative of immunity?
5. ‘It is the judges that make the common law’. ‘Do you know what they make it? Just as a man makes laws for his dogs. When your dog does anything you want to break him of, you wait till he does it and then beat him. This is the way judge makes law for you and me’. Who said this?
6. In which one of the following cases has the court applied the doctrine of ‘lifting the veil’ to determine distinct personality of a corporation?
7. According to Salmond, Supreme legislation refers to:
8. It is one of the cardinal principles of delegated legislation that the legislature should not delegate to a subordinate body the power to make rules of:
9. Delegation of legislative power to the representative body/authority ‘for the purposes of the Act’ is:
10. Delegated legislation means:
11. Which of the following statements are correct?
I. Ownership can be legal and vested ownership II. Ownership can be legal and equitable ownership III. Ownership can be trust and beneficial ownership
12. ‘Whenever a person looked like an owner in relation to thing, he had possession of it, unless possession was denied to him by rules of law based as practical convenience’. This view is expressed by
13. One of the important elements in the concept of possession is ‘possessions’ which means:
14. Which one of the following statements is true?
15. Consider the following statements:
I. All natural persons are not legal persons II. All legal persons are treated as natural persons III. All business associations are legal persons Of the above statements:
16. Ownership of goodwill of a business is:
17. Which one of the following is a legal person?
18. Which one of the following statements denotes right in rem?
19. Consider the following statements:
I. Precedents are created by the judges II. A precedent is not binding if it is inconsistent with the legislation III. Precedents can sometimes be created by legislations Of these statements:
20. A corporation aggregate is:
21. The rights of an owner are:
22. Right in re aliena means a right over:
23. Judicial persons means:
24. An idol of Lord Krishna in a temple is:
25. In which case, the Supreme Court observed: ‘In a strict sense, legal rights are correlative of legal duties and the defined as interest which the law protects by imposing corresponding duties on others but in a generic sense, the world “right” is used to mean an immunity from the legal power of another; immunity is exemption from the power of another in the same was as liberty is exemption from the right of another. Immunity, in short, is no subjection’?