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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

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
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
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
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
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.

Multiple choice

Which of the folllowing is correct about an accomplice?

  1. His evidence is irrelevant.

  2. He is not a competent witness.

  3. His evidence is relevant u/s 114 and 133 of the Evidence Act.

  4. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

(3) His evidence is relevant u/s 114 and 133 of the Evidence Act.

Multiple choice

Res Ipsa loquitur means

  1. as you sow, you reap

  2. guilty shall be punished

  3. the thing speaks for itself

  4. the guilty speaks lies
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(3) Res Ipsa loquitur means the thing speaks for itself.