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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

“What cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly.” This statement relates to the:

  1. Doctrine of pith and substance

  2. Doctrine of colourable legislation

  3. Doctrine of ancillary powers

  4. Doctrine of Implied powers
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The doctrine of colourable legislation states that what cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly. It prevents legislatures from achieving a prohibited end by indirect means when the direct means are forbidden. This ensures legislative bodies do not overstep their constitutional authority through clever drafting.

Multiple choice

You have genuine differences with your senior regarding a customs fraud case. You think that your senior is deliberately trying to save the accused.

  1. You approach your senior to find out the actual matter.

  2. You submit your report without catering to any influence from your senior.

  3. You conduct a sting operation so as the truth can be shown to the world.

  4. you Approach your co-workers for guidance.

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

Submitting your report independently (B) maintains professional integrity and ensures the fraud case is evaluated on merits, not influenced by senior's position. Approaching the senior (A) might lead to pressure, sting operations (C) are unauthorized, and seeking co-workers' guidance (D) avoids your responsibility.

Multiple choice

You are supervising a high profile case concerning a land acquisition deal. Despite your sincere efforts, you are being charged by the media with allegations of deliberately ignoring certain evidence.

  1. Resign from your post and request for an internal inquiry into the matter.

  2. Ignore the allegations as you are sure that there has been no mishandling of evidence.

  3. Recommend the matter to the seniors in the department and wait for their response.

  4. Hold a press conference to give an explanation to the media.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Recommending to seniors (C) follows proper hierarchy and allows for institutional response. Resigning (A) is premature, ignoring allegations (B) doesn't address the crisis, and press conference (D) bypasses protocol. Seniors can provide guidance, support, and official response mechanisms.

Multiple choice

Right to reputation is

  1. right in rem

  2. right in personam

  3. right in re aliena

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Right to reputation is a right in rem. A right in rem is available against the world at large. It is called “real right”. 

Multiple choice

Per incurium is

  1. a decision which ignores a statute on the subject

  2. a decision which ignores the case law on the subject

  3. a decision which ignores the constitution on the subject

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Per incuriam, literally translated as "through lack of care", refers to a judgment of a court, which has been decided without reference to a statutory provision or earlier judgment which would have been relevant.

Multiple choice

Ordinarily, passive concealment or mere silence is no fraud. But, it may become deceptive in certain cases. In which of the following cases does it amount to fraud?

  1. When the person keeping silent is under ‘duty to speak’

  2. When the silence is itself ‘equivalent to seech’

  3. ‘Half-truths’

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Mere silence as to facts does not amount to fraud. There is difference between active concealment and passive concealment. 

Multiple choice

Which of the following does not amount to fraud?

  1. Active concealment of a fact

  2. A promise made without any intention of performing it

  3. Suggestion as a fact of that which is not true by one who does not believe it to be true

  4. A representation made without knowing it to be false, honestly believing it to be true
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

For a statement to constitute a fraud, it must not only be made without an honest belief in the facts presented but must be made knowing it to be false or without belief in the truth of the false representation.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is/are the essential(s) of sedition?

  1. Intention

  2. Benefits or gains of the accused

  3. Result

  4. Both intention and result
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Law of sedition relates to the uttering of seditious words, the publication of seditious libels, and conspiracies to do an act for the furtherance of a seditious intention.

Multiple choice

In respect of sanctuaries, which of the following statements is/are correct?

  1. Causing fire in sanctuaries is prohibited.

  2. Use of injurious substances in sanctuaries is prohibited.

  3. Entry with weapon in sanctuaries is prohibited.

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Section 30 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 states that no person shall set fire to a sanctuary, or kindle any fire, or leave any fire burning in a sanctuary, in such manner as to endanger such a sanctuary, and section 31 of the act also states that "No person shall enter a sanctuary with any weapon except with the previous permission in writing of the Chief Wild Life Warden or the authorised officer".

Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is true?

  1. Law prohibits exhibition of performing animals.

  2. Law prohibits exhibition of performing specified animals.

  3. Law is silent on performing animals.

  4. Law restricts exhibition of performing animals.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Section 24 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 states that where it is proved to any magistrate on a complaint made by a police officer that the training or exhibition of any performing animals has been accompanied by unnecessary pain or suffering and should be prohibited or allowed only subject to conditions, the court may make an order against the person in respect of whom the complaint is made, prohibiting the training or exhibition or imposing such conditions in relation thereto, as may be specified by the order. 

Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is true?

  1. Head of the Department under the pollution laws shall be guilty of the offence.

  2. Head of the Department under the pollution laws shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence.

  3. Head of the Department under the pollution laws shall not be guilty of the offence.

  4. Head of the Department under the pollution laws shall not be deemed guilty of the offence.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Where an offence under this act has been committed by any Department of Government, the Head of the Department shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

Multiple choice

Specific question of law in arbitration

  1. cannot be referred to arbitration

  2. can be referred to arbitration

  3. can be decided by the parties

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The arbitration does not deal with the matter where there is a question of law.