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Indian Law and Jurisprudence

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Indian law and jurisprudence cover statutory frameworks like the Companies Act, Consumer Protection Act, and Indian Penal Code, alongside landmark judicial precedents. Legal topics are crucial for law entrance exams, judiciary examinations, and general awareness papers. Answer these questions to learn about defamation, administrative tribunals, and criminal procedure code sections.

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Indian Law and Jurisprudence Questions

Multiple choice
  1. judgement debtor

  2. judgement debtor’s creditor

  3. decree holder

  4. judgement debtor’s debtor

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(4) Garnishee means a judgment debtor’s debtor. He is a person or institution that is indebted to another whose property has been subject to garnishment. He is a person who is liable to pay a debt to a judgment debtor or to deliver any movable property to him. Garnisher is a judgment-creditor (decree-holder) who initiates a garnishment action to reach the debtor’s property that is thought to be held or owned by a third party.

Multiple choice
  1. a court situated outside India

  2. a court situated outside India and not established under the authority of Government of India

  3. a court situated in India, applying foreign law

  4. All of the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

(2) Under the Civil Procedure Code, 1908, “Foreign Court” means a court situated outside India and not established or continued by the authority of the Central Government.

Multiple choice
  1. arrest before judgement

  2. attachment before judgement

  3. temporary injunction

  4. appointment of executor

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(4) In order to prevent the ends of justice from being defeated, a court may

(a) issue a warrant to arrest the defendant and bring him before the court to show cause why he should not give security for his appearance and if he fails to comply with any order for security, commit him to the civil prison; (b) direct the defendant to furnish security to produce any property belonging to him and to place the same at the disposal of the court or order the attachment of any property; (c) grant a temporary injunction and in case of disobedience, commit the person guilty thereof to the civil prison and order that his property be attached and sold.

Multiple choice
  1. sixty rupees

  2. twenty-five rupees

  3. fifty rupees

  4. five rupees

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Section 8 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 provides that where any direction for registration has been issued, any person contravening any rule made in this behalf shall be punishable with fine, which may extend to twenty-five rupees only. 

Multiple choice
  1. acquisition of easement by prescription

  2. exclusion in favours of reversioner of servient tenement

  3. extinguishment of right to property

  4. None of these

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A Correct answer
Explanation

Section 25 of the Limitation Act provides provisions for acquisition of easement by prescription.

Multiple choice
  1. continuing breach of contract

  2. successive breach of contract

  3. Both (1) and (2)

  4. None of these

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A Correct answer
Explanation

Section 22 refers to cases of continuing breach of contract.

Multiple choice
  1. exclusion of time in legal proceedings

  2. exclusion of time in cases where leave to sue of appeal as a pauper is applied

  3. exclusion of time of proceeding bonafide in court without jurisdiction

  4. exclusion of time in certain other cases

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Section 12 of the Limitation Act states provisions for exclusion of time in legal proceedings. Section 13 of the Limitation Act deals with the provisions of exclusion of time in cases where leave to sue or appeal as a pauper is applied for. Section 14 deals with exclusion of time of proceeding bonafide in court without jurisdiction. Section 15 of the Limitation Act states provisions for exclusion of time in certain other cases.

  

Multiple choice
  1. State Government

  2. High Court

  3. Supreme Court

  4. Central Government

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A Correct answer
Explanation

Under section 56 of the Partnership Act, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that the provisions of registration shall not apply to a state or to any part thereof specified in the notification.

Multiple choice
  1. be declined

  2. not be declined

  3. be commuted

  4. be withheld

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A Correct answer
Explanation

(1) All the provisions of the Specific Relief Act based on the descretion of the court. Even all the conditions for a declaratory decree are fulfilled even then the court can decline for the relief.

Multiple choice
  1. Section 21

  2. Section 32

  3. Section 42

  4. Section 40

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B Correct answer
Explanation

(2) Section 32 of the Specific Relief Act states that where an instrument is evidence of different rights or different obligations, the court may, in a proper case, cancel it in part and allow it to stand for the residue.