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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

Oral admission as to contents of electronic records are relevant when the

  1. party proposing to prove them shows that he is entitled to give secondary evidence of the same

  2. genuineness of the electronic record produced is in question

  3. Both (1) and (2)

  4. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Option (2) is correct: Oral admission as to contents of electronic records is relevant only when genuineness of the electronic record produced is in question.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is true?

  1. There cannot be further cross-examination after re-examination.

  2. There can be further cross-examination after re-examination as per Section 137.

  3. There can be further cross-examination after re-examination as per Section 138.

  4. There can be further cross-examination after re-examination as per Section 139.
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (3) is correct: Section 138 provides that there can be further cross-examination after re-examination if new matter is, by permission of the court, introduced in-re-examination.

Multiple choice

In petty offences, the accused may plead guilty only

  1. in person

  2. through an advocate

  3. Both (1) and (2)

  4. In petty offences, the accused may plead guilty in person or through an advocate or also by transmitting plea through post or messenger.
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (3) is correct: Under the code of criminal procedure, in petty offences the accused may plead guilty in person or through advocate.

Multiple choice

What is legal disability under the Limitation Act?

  1. Permanent physical disability

  2. Partial, but serious physical disability

  3. Disability due to poverty

  4. None of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Option (4) is correct: Legal disability under the Limitation Act is insanity, idiocy and minority.

Multiple choice

A time barred debt can be claimed as a

  1. set off

  2. counter claim

  3. fresh suit

  4. None of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect: A time barred debt cannot be claimed as a set off. Option (2) is incorrect: A time barred debt cannot be claimed as a counter claim. Option (3) is incorrect: A time barred debt cannot be claimed as a fresh suit. Option (4) is correct: A time barred debt can never be claimed as a set off, counter claim and a fresh suit.

Multiple choice

If in any case in which the defendant sets up counterclaim, the suit of the plaintiff is stayed, discontinued or dismissed, the counter claim,

  1. shall be stayed

  2. nevertheless be proceeded with

  3. may be continued with the leave of the High Court

  4. No specific provision
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect: Shall not be stayed. Option (2) is correct: Under Order VIII, Rule 6D of the CPC, if in any case in which the defendant sets up a counter claim, the suit of the plaintiff is stayed, discontinued or dismissed, the counter claim may nevertheless be proceeded with. Option (3) is incorrect: Can never be continued even with the leave of the court.

Multiple choice

A decree is preliminary

  1. when it is issued in the preliminary stages of the suit

  2. when further proceedings have to be taken or the suit to be completely disposed of

  3. when it deals with some preliminary issues

  4. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Option (2) is correct: A decree is preliminary when further proceedings have to be taken or the suit to be completely disposed of on the basis of the decree.

Multiple choice

The evidentiary value of a retracted confession is that it

  1. still remains an evidence

  2. remains an evidence but a weak one

  3. becomes a corroborative but a weak evidence

  4. becomes other evidence from only evidence
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect: A retracted confession is one which is withdrawn or retracted later on by the person making it. It is a very weak type of evidence. Option (2) is incorrect: Doesn’t remain in evidence till corroborated Option (3) is correct: A confession, when retracted by the person making it, becomes a weak type of evidence and will require to be corroborated while in trial. Option (4) is incorrect: No such provision

Multiple choice

Section 114 Evidence Act applies to

  1. admissibility of facts

  2. relevancy of facts

  3. relevancy of opinions

  4. legal presumptions
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Option (4) is correct: Section 114 of Evidence Act states that Court may presume existence of certain acts.

Multiple choice

'Professional Communication' between an advocate and his client

  1. is not admissible in evidence

  2. is a privileged communication only until the contract continues

  3. is admissible in evidence with consent of the client

  4. is not admissible until it is legal
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect: 'Professional Communication' between an advocate and his client is admissible in evidence. Option (2) is incorrect: 'Professional Communication' between an advocate and his client is a privileged communication even after the contract rescinds. Option (3) is correct: U/s 126 of Evidence Act, no barrister, attorney, pleader or vakil shall at any time be permitted to disclose any communication made to him in the course of his employment, unless with his client’s express consent. Option (4) is incorrect: It is admissible whether it is legal or illegal.

Multiple choice

Hostile witness is one who

  1. does not tell one who

  2. gives statements against the opposite party

  3. gives statement against the party who called him as a witness

  4. is not desirous to tell the truth, and gives testimony against the party who called him as a witness in his favour
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (3) is correct: Hostile witness is one who gives adverse statement against the party who called him as a witness.

Multiple choice

What is re–examination of a witness?

  1. Re-calling the witness

  2. Repeated examination of the witness

  3. Cross examination of one’s own witness

  4. None of these
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is correct: Re-calling the witness is known as re-examination of a witness.