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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

Double jeopardy mentioned in article 20 of the constitution means

  1. parliament is prohibited from making restropective laws

  2. no person shall be punished for the same offence twice

  3. no person shall be compelled to be a witness against himself

  4. no person shall be convicted for any crime without any valid proof
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Article 20 says that no person shall be prosecuted and punished for the same offence more than once. This is called Doctrine of Double Jeopardy.  

Multiple choice

Sui-Juris means

  1. capable of managing one’s affairs or assuming legal responsibility

  2. beyond the purview of the courts

  3. a suit that is not pursued by the plaintiff

  4. none of these
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A Correct answer
Explanation

In civil law, the phrase sui juris indicates legal competence, the capacity to manage one’s own affairs.

Multiple choice

Modus operandi means

  1. not negotiable

  2. way of working

  3. operational efficiency

  4. jurisdiction of a law court
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Modus operandi means a method of operating or functioning.

Multiple choice

The term ‘justiciable’ means

  1. just and fair

  2. capable of being settled by law

  3. not amenable to action of a court

  4. capable of being justified

  5. All of the above
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Option (2) is correct: Justiciable means that a dispute or a case which is enforceable by the law.

Multiple choice

Veto is

  1. any authoritative prohibition

  2. a writ or order issued by some authority

  3. a public official charge

  4. none of the above
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A Correct answer
Explanation

A veto is the power (used by an officer of the state, for example) to unilaterally stop an official action, especially the enactment of legislation.

Multiple choice

A document which authorises a person to act as the agent of the grant or of the power with regard to specific matters is called

  1. Seed

  2. Right of Attorney

  3. Power of Attorney

  4. Licence

  5. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

A written document in which one person (the principal) appoints another person to act as an agent on his or her behalf, thereby conferring authority on the agent to perform certain acts or functions on behalf of the principal is called Power of Attorney.

Multiple choice

Quash means

  1. to reprimand

  2. to appeal

  3. to prosecute

  4. to annul
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Quash means to put an end to or destroy. 

Multiple choice

‘Libel’ is addressed to

  1. heart

  2. ear

  3. eye

  4. all of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Libel is addressed to the eye. It is written form of defamation.

Multiple choice

Ignorance of law

  1. is excused

  2. is not excused

  3. is a good defence

  4. is dying declaration
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B Correct answer
Explanation

'Ignorance of law is not excused' is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely because he or she was unaware of its content.

Multiple choice

Defamation means

  1. to attack on the person’s self respect

  2. to attack on the person’s reputation

  3. to attack on the person’s freedom

  4. to attack on the person’s equality
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Defamation means the action of damaging the good reputation of someone i.e. slander and libel. 

Multiple choice

A caveat is

  1. an order

  2. a writ

  3. an injunction

  4. a warning
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D Correct answer
Explanation

A caveat is a warning in the form of a notice, especially in a probate, that certain actions may not be taken without informing the person who gave the notice. 

Multiple choice

In the case of a sudden mutual fight between two parties,

  1. only the accused will be guilty

  2. no one is guilty

  3. all the persons will be held guilty

  4. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

In the case of a sudden mutual fight between two parties, all the persons will be held guilty. No right of private defence is available to both the parties under Indian Penal Code.