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Legal Principles and Remedies

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This hub provides practice questions on tort liability, professional negligence, and compensatory damages. It covers key legal principles related to contracts, product liability, and defenses like comparative negligence. These topics are vital for law students and candidates preparing for judiciary examinations.

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Legal Principles and Remedies Questions

Multiple choice

Which of the following is not a contingent liability?

  1. Bill discounted and dishonoured

  2. Bill discounted but not matured

  3. Uncalled liability on partly paid up shares

  4. Claims against business pending in the court
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Since the bill has been dishonoured, so it is a definite liability. Contigent liabilities are those which may or may not arise in the future. All the others mentioned above are contigent in nature.

Multiple choice

The errors which adjust the effect of some other mistakes are called

  1. errors of omission

  2. errors of commission

  3. errors of principle

  4. compensating errors
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Compensating errors are those which compensate the effect of another error. The entries made in contravention of accounting principles are errors of principle. Error of omission refers to complete/partial omission of transaction from the books of account. When an entry is posted with wrong amount or on wrong side, it is the error of commission.

Multiple choice

Mistakes of facts include

  1. mistake of law.

  2. mistake of subject matter.

  3. mistake of possibility of performance.

  4. mistake of identifying the subject matter.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

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Multiple choice

Liability is

  1. subjection to legal obligation

  2. a responsibility

  3. a duty

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

Option (1) is correct: Liability means legal obligation for one's acts or omissions. 

Multiple choice

Assertion (A): Damages must be related to damage. Reason (R): Damage is damaging and damages are compensating.

  1. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

  2. Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

  3. (A) is true, but (R) is false.

  4. (A) is false, but (R) is true.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Damages must be related to damage of defamation, etc. Damage is damaging and damages are compensating any thing, property, reputation, etc.

Multiple choice

According to Wikipedia, scapegoat is an individual, group or country blamed or punished for the mistakes of others or accused unnecessarily. Which of the following is not a scapegoat?

  1. Manager of football team made to resign for team's failure

  2. A girl being slapped by her mother for a glass broken by her brother

  3. A person getting selected in a company because of a reference

  4. A candidate getting rejected due to another candidate's misconduct
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Scapegoat is for the purpose of passing the blame, not for achievement.

Multiple choice

Mark the correct answer:

  1. Tort is a statutory remedy

  2. Tort is a criminal wrung

  3. Tort is a civil wrong

  4. Tort is a contractual wrong
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Tort is a civil wrong, not a statutory remedy, criminal wrong, or contractual wrong. Tort law deals with civil wrongs that cause harm or loss, leading to legal liability. It's distinct from criminal law (state vs individual) and contract law (based on agreement). Torts arise from duties fixed by law.

Multiple choice

Which of the following pairs is correctly matched in the code (1) Strict liability means no-fault liability (2) Rylands Vs. Fletcher lays down the rule of trespass ab initio (3) Vis major is a good defence in absolute liability (4) Supreme Court has overruled strict liability by absolute liability

  1. (1) and (2)

  2. (3) and (4)

  3. (2) and (3)

  4. (1) and (4)
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Strict liability is no-fault liability. Rylands v. Fletcher is the origin of strict liability. Absolute liability was developed by the Supreme Court in the Oleum Gas Leak case (M.C. Mehta v. Union of India) as a stricter form of liability without exceptions.

Multiple choice

Assertion (A): Law cannot take account of everything that follows a wrongful act. Reason (R): 'Causes of causes' or 'consequences of consequences' are outside the scope of liability.

  1. Both (A) and (R) are true.

  2. Both (A) and (R) are false.

  3. (A) is true, but (R) is false.

  4. (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The law cannot take account of everything that follows a wrongful act; it regards some subsequent matters as outside the scope of its selection because it was infinite for the law to judge ‘causes of causes’ or ‘consequences of consequences’.

Multiple choice

Assertion (A): Law of Torts is concerned with the allocation and distribution of losses and awarding compensation to the victim. Reason (R): This is a branch of law governing actions for damages for injuries to private legal rights.

  1. Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are correct.

  2. Assertion (A) is correct, but Reason (R) is wrong.

  3. Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are wrong.

  4. Reason (R) is correct, but Assertion (A) is wrong.

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

Law of tort is concerned with the allocation and distribution of losses. This is the branch of law governing actions for damages for injuries to private legal rights. For example, right to property, right to personal security, right to personal reputation, etc. The word “tort” means, in law, a wrongdoing or an injury which deals with situations where a person’s actions cause harm to the society in general, which has certain characteristics.