Home > Law Entrance Exams India > Quizzes > Legal Reasoning Questions Based on Previous Papers
Legal Reasoning Questions Based on Previous Papers
Fast practice, instant feedback. Timer auto-submits when time’s up.
Avg score: 42% Most missed: “Consider the following statements:”
100 questions.
Legal Reasoning Questions Based on Previous Papers
Time left 00:00
25 Questions

1. Which of the following are subordinate legislations?
I. Parliamentary legislation II. Colonial legislation III. Judicial legislation IV. Executive legislation
2. The law declared by the Supreme Court is binding on all the courts within the territory of India, but the Supreme Court is not bound by its own decisions, was decided by the Supreme Court itself in
3. Which one of the following is a legal person?
4. The realist theory of personality explained legal personality as the product of:
5. Which one of the following statements denotes right in rem?
6. A child in the mother’s womb is:
7. Which one of the following is not a correct example of legal person in India?
8. If the Jural co-relative of ‘Right’ is ‘Duty’ then the co-relative of ‘Liberty’ is:
9. A decision of Privy Council given before 1949 is:
10. Which one of the following gets along correctly?
11. Animus domini is an essential element of possession according to
12. Which one of the following statements is true?
13. The propounder of the Interest Theory of legal right is:
14. Who among the following said that there is in essence, no difference between the legal personality of a company and that of an individual?
15. It has been said that the doctrine of precedent is of antiquity while the doctrine of stare decisis is relatively modern. The emergence of the doctrine of stare decisis was related to:
16. In which one of the following cases, the court ‘pierced the veil’ of the corporate personality?
17. Which one of the following statements is correct with reference to ‘Reversal’ and ‘Overruling’?
18. The main purpose of the Corporation sole is to:
19. A corporation aggregate is:
20. The statement ‘Precedents are the past decisions which are used as guide in the moulding of future decisions’ is attributed to:
21. Bank notes contained in a wooden box, which was inside a locked safe in the wall of a building, will be deemed to be in the possession of:
22. According to Professor Goodhart, a ratio decidendi of a case is:
23. Which of the following could be considered to be advantages of legislation over precedent?
I. Abrogative power II. Foreknowledge III. Prospective application IV. Systematic arrangement
24. Who defines ownership as ‘Plenary control over an object’?
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’?