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1. A bench of the Supreme Court confronted with two conflicting decisions of equal value rendered earlier, would be well advised to:
2. 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’?
3. Match List I with List II: List I List II (Statement) (Kind of Possession)
I. Principal deposits goods with an
A. Immediate agent II. Buyer purchasing a book from the
B. Mediate shopkeeper III. Owner losing his watch
C. Incorporeal IV. Author’s copyright to his work
D. Corporeal Codes:
4. 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:
5. The main purpose of the Corporation sole is to:
6. In State Trading Corporation of India vs Commercial Tax Officer, the Supreme Court observed that a company registered under the Companies Act:
7. ‘A’ owes ‘B’ rupees five hundred which has become time-barred. ‘B’s claim to rupees five hundred is:
8. If the Jural co-relative of ‘Right’ is ‘Duty’ then the co-relative of ‘Liberty’ is:
9. Ownership consists of:
10. 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:
11. Which one of the following statements is true?
12. “A person is any being whom the law regards as capable of rights or duties”, according to:
13. In which one of the following cases, the court ‘pierced the veil’ of the corporate personality?
14. Delegated legislation means:
15. 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:
16. Match List I (Legal Right) with List II Nature of Legal Right) and select answer by using the codes given below the Lists: List I List II
I. Time barred debt A. Personal right II. Right to reputation B. Right in personam III. Right to physical integrity
C. Imperfect right IV. Right arising out of a contract
D. Right in rem
17. Delegation of legislative power to the representative body/authority ‘for the purposes of the Act’ is:
18. A soldier found a brooch in a house which was compulsory acquired by the government for war purposes. The owner of the house had never gone into physical occupation of the house before it was requisitioned for the army. The person legally entitled to the brooch is:
19. Match List I with list II: List I List II
I. Privilege A. Gives content to the claim of a person II. Duty B. Freedom from claim of another III. Power C. Have correlative claim according to Austin IV. Absolute duty
D. Ability of a person to change legal relations
20. In law, there is a fiction that a child, en ventre sa mere is a person in being for the purposes of:
21. Possession is prima facie evidence of title of ownership. Hence:
22. In Bridges vs Hawkesworth, the finder was allowed to keep the goods on the ground that
23. Which is the correct attribute of ownership?
24. In which one of the following cases has the court applied the doctrine of ‘lifting the veil’ to determine distinct personality of a corporation?
25. While digging the foundation of a building, the labourers found a bronze statue belonging to the pre-Christian era. The possession of the statue is claimed by the owner of the land. Which one of the following could be an appropriate ground for the claim of the landowner?