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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

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
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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.
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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.

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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.

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 organisation of commerce and management public sector undertakings & global enterprises departmental undertakings meaning and features of departmental undertaking government organisation classification of commercial organisations

Liability clause in MOA is required by __________________.

  1. Company Limited by shares

  2. Company Limited by guarantee

  3. Company Limited by both shares and guarantee

  4. All of the above
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Explanation

Liability Clause. The fourth clause of MOA, the liability clause declares the liability of members of the company to be either limited or unlimited.However, in case of a limited company, the liability of directors or managers of a company may be unlimited, if specified in the memorandum.

Every alteration in the MOA will be made only in these clauses, either in all or any of these clauses. Therefore the situations under which the MOA needs to be altered are Change in the name of the Company. Change of registered office of the Company.

Multiple choice business organisation principles and techniques of management 21st century modern management features of management coordination and management in the twenty - first century

Which ONE of the following is unlikely to constitute unfairly prejudicial conduct?

  1. The payment of excessive remuneration.

  2. Preventing the members from obtaining the best price for their shares.

  3. The improper transfer of shares.

  4. Mismanagement
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Explanation

While mismanagement can be harmful, it is generally considered a business failure rather than 'unfairly prejudicial conduct' under corporate law, which usually refers to specific actions that unfairly harm minority shareholders.

Multiple choice commerce discharge and breach of a contract discharge of contract performance, discharge, breach and remedies of contract business law and contract act

Damages which an aggrieved party claims, besides general damages for any loss he has suffered owing to special circumstances known to both the parties at the time of signing the contract are called ________.

  1. vindictive damages

  2. nominal damages

  3. general damages

  4. special damages
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Special damages are those that arise from the special circumstances of the case, which were known to the parties at the time of the contract. These are distinct from general damages, which arise naturally from the breach itself.