Indian Law and Jurisprudence

Option (1) is incorrect: Under Order XVII, Rule 3 of the CPC states that the court may proceed notwithstanding either party fails to produce evidence, etc. Option (2) is incorrect: Order XVII, Rule 2 of the CPC provides procedure if parties fail to appear on day fixed. Option (3) is correct: Court may grant time and adjourn hearing under Order XVII, Rule 1 of the CPC.

Option (3) is correct: Precepts are issued under Section 46 of the CPC for attaching the property of the judgment-debtor.

Option (3) is correct: Under Section 58 of the CPC, a person detained shall be released from the detention on the amount mentioned in the warrant of his detention being paid to the officer in charge of the civil prison.

Option (2) is correct: Alien enemies residing in India may sue with the permission of the Central Government.

Option (1) is correct: The starting words of Section 8 states 'Any person having the possession or control of a particular article of movable property of which he is not the owner may be compelled specifically to deliver it to the person entitled to its immediate possession'. Option (2) is incorrect: Section 8 cannot be invoked against the person who is the owner of the article. Option (3) is incorrect: Section 8 cannot be invoked by the person not entitled to the possession of the article. Option (4) is incorrect: Section 8 can be invoked in respect of any article.

Option (3) is correct: No second appeal shall lie from any decree when the subject matter of the original suit is for recovery of money not exceeding twenty-five thousand rupees.

The correct chronological order is: Communal G.O. of Madras (1921), Scheduled Caste Order (1950), Untouchability Offences Act (1955), and the Protection of Civil Rights Act (1976). The 1976 Act was actually a renaming and strengthening of the 1955 Act. This sequence reflects the legal evolution of social justice measures in India.

Option (3) is correct: U/s 34 of Evidence Act, entries in the books of account, regularly kept in the course of business, are relevant whenever they refer to a matter into which the court has to inquire but such statements shall not alone be sufficient evidence to charge any person with liability.

Option (4) is correct: U/s 366 B, the mentioned offence is punishable if the age of the girl is below 21 years.

Option (3) is correct: Nothing is an offence by reason that it causes, or that it is intended to cause, any harm, if that harm is so slight that no person of ordinary sense and temper would complain of such harm. So, no punishment would be there for the acts which cause slight harm.

Option (1) is correct: The provisions of Section 498-A IPC were introduced in IPC by Criminal Law (Second Amendment) Act, 1983.

Option (3) is correct: Section 73 of the Act has not specifically mentioned any property; so it implies it would include both movable and immovable property.

Option (4) is correct: Under Section 75 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, when a commission has been issued, it cannot impose penalties or fine and initiate contempt of court proceedings.

Option (1) is incorrect: Order 22 Rule 1 of CPC deals with no abatement by party’s death, if right to sue survives. Option (2) is incorrect: Order 22 Rule 4 of CPC provides procedure in case of death of one of several defendants or of sole defendant. Option (3) is incorrect: Order 22 Rule 8 of CPC states when plaintiff’s insolvency bars suit. Option (4) is correct: Order 22 Rule 10A of CPC states duty of pleader to communicate to court the death of a party.

Option (1) is incorrect: Substantive law provides rights and liabilities. Option (2) is correct: The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 is a procedural law as procedural law provides a procedure to move proceedings in a court.