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Legal Principles and Doctrines

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Legal principles and doctrines establish the foundational rules of jurisprudence and civil rights. Questions cover constitutional reasonable restrictions, courtroom evidence standards, and property laws. These topics are strictly necessary for law legal studies exams and judicial services prelims.

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Legal Principles and Doctrines Questions

Multiple choice

A confession by an accused is irrelevant if it is caused by

  1. inducement

  2. threat

  3. promise

  4. All of the above

  5. None of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

A confession made by an accused person is irrelevant in a criminal proceeding if the making of the confession appears to the court to have been caused by any inducement, threat or promise.

Multiple choice

Where there is reasonable ground to believe that ____________ have conspired together to commit an offence or an actionable wrong, anything said, done or written by any one of such persons in reference to their common intention, after the time when such intention was first entertained by any one of them is a relevant fact as against each of the persons believed to be so conspiring as well as for the purpose of proving the existence of the conspiracy as for the purpose showing that any such persons was a party to it.

  1. two or more persons

  2. five or more persons

  3. one or more persons

  4. No limit prescribed
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Under Section 10 of the Indian Evidence Act, where there is reasonable ground to believe that two or more persons have conspired together to commit an offence or an actionable wrong, anything said, done or written by any one of such persons in reference to their common intention, after the time when such intention was first entertained by any one of them is a relevant fact as against each of the persons believed to be so conspiring as well as for the purpose of proving the existence of the conspiracy as for the purpose showing that any such persons was a party to it.

Multiple choice

In context of public service commission, what does Article 311(2) refer to?

  1. To save public servants from caprices of officers of inferior rank

  2. To enable public servants to cross examine witnesses produced against them

  3. To distinguish security of tenure of civil servants from services of groups A and B

  4. None of these
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Article 311(2) is for protecting a civil servant from the caprices of officers of inferior rank.

Multiple choice

Which of the following literally means ‘command’?

  1. Writ to certiorari

  2. Writ to mandamus

  3. Writ to quo warranto

  4. Writ to prohibition
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Mandamus literally means 'command'. Therefore, when it is issued, it commands a public authority or officer to do or not to do something which is in the nature of his/her public duty.

Multiple choice

The term minimum non - curat lex means law does not take account of triffles.

  1. True

  2. False

  3. Partly true

  4. Cannot say
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The legal maxim 'de minimis non curat lex' means that the law does not concern itself with trivial matters or trifles. Courts will not entertain cases involving insignificant or negligible issues where the cost of litigation outweighs the stakes. This principle prevents judicial resources from being wasted on inconsequential matters.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is incorrect in relation to imposition of the President rule on a state?

  1. The Presidential proclamation imposing President's rule is subjected to judicial review.

  2. The satisfaction of the President must be based upon relevant material.

  3. Burden lies on the State to prove that relevant material exists to justify the imposition of the President's rule.

  4. The court cannot go into the correctness of the material or its adequacy.
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Burden lies on the Central Government to prove that relevant material exists to justify the imposition of the President's rule.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is/are correct in respect to summons?

  1. A court order directing a person to appear at a specific time and place

  2. Can be issued in criminal and civil cases

  3. Can be issued by a local police inspector

  4. Both (1) and (2)
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Summons are when a court order directs a person to appear at a specific time and place. It can be issued in criminal and civil cases. 

Multiple choice

What is a "cognizance"?

  1. It means custody without warrant.

  2. It means crime.

  3. It means arousing judicial notice or knowledge.

  4. It means custody with warrant.
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Cognizance means a judicial notice as taken by a court in dealing with a case. 

Multiple choice

In criminal cases, previous good character is

  1. irrelevant

  2. relevant

  3. relevant if proved with oath

  4. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

(2) In criminal proceedings, the fact that the person accused is of a good character is relevant.

Multiple choice

Doctrine of “Res Gestae” speaks of

  1. relevancy of documentary evidence

  2. relevancy of primary evidence

  3. relevancy of facts forming part of some transaction

  4. relevancy of judgments of Court of Justice
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C Correct answer
Explanation

(3) Doctrine of “Res Gestae” speaks of relevancy of facts forming part of some transaction.

Multiple choice

Where a document is executed in several parts, there

  1. each part is a primary evidence of the document

  2. each part cannot be primary evidence of the document

  3. each counter part is secondary evidence

  4. only main part is primary, while rest is secondary evidence of the document
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A Correct answer
Explanation

(1) Section 62 of Evidence Act makes it clear that where a document is executed in several parts, each part is a primary evidence of the document.