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Property and Trust Law

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Property and trust law covers ownership rights, leases, adverse possession, and the transfer of assets. These legal principles are fundamental for judiciary exams, UPSC, and state PSCs. Practice these questions to understand property rights and related legal procedures thoroughly.

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Property and Trust Law Questions

Multiple choice

Transfer of property for the benefit of an unborn person can be made by

  1. creation of a prior interest in favour of a living person for any period

  2. vesting the right directly to the unborn

  3. creation of a prior interest in favour of a living person till the existence of the unborn person

  4. either the unborn or a living person
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (3) is correct. U/s 13 of Transfer of Property Act, 1882, transfer of property for the benefit of an unborn person can be made by creating a prior interest in favour of a living person till the existence of the unborn person.

Multiple choice

A court to which decree has been transferred for execution, while executing, cannot

  1. order attachment

  2. execute the decree against the legal representatives of the deceased judgment debtor

  3. send the decree for execution to another court

  4. order execution at the instance of the transferee of the decree
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Option (4) is correct: A court to which decree has been transferred for execution, while executing, cannot order execution at the instance of the transferee of the decree.

Multiple choice

The general principle regarding the transfer of title is that the seller

  1. can transfer to the buyer of goods a better title than he himself has

  2. cannot transfer to the buyer of goods a better title than he himself has

  3. can transfer to the buyer of goods no title than he himself has

  4. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Option (2) is correct: Where goods are sold by a person who is not the owner thereof and who does not sell them under the authority or with the consent of the owner, the buyer acquires no better title to the goods than the seller had.

Multiple choice

Can a mortgagor make a lease of a mortgaged property?

  1. Yes, with no conditions at all.

  2. Yes, with certain conditions provided by the Transfer of Property Act.

  3. No

  4. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Option (2) is correct: A mortgagor can make a lease of a mortgaged property with certain conditions provided by the Transfer of Property Act.

Multiple choice

Which one of the following is correct? 1. Succession refers to transmission of office 2. Inheritance refers to transmission of office 3. Succession refers to transmission of property Select the correct answer using the code given below:

  1. 1 only

  2. 2 only

  3. 3 only

  4. None of the above
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Succession refers to the transmission of an office or position, whereas inheritance refers to the transmission of property or assets.

Multiple choice

The court gave the defence lawyer _________ November 12th to deposit the original deed.

  1. upto

  2. until

  3. by

  4. between

  5. .
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B Correct answer
Explanation

 Here, until is the correct option as it is used to do something before a certain time or up to that time. Upto is used to indicate extension as far as a specified place or to indicate a limit or boundary. ‘By’ is used to indicate the means of achieving something and between is used to imply at, into or across the space separating the two objects, region or points in time.

Multiple choice

According to a ruling by the state supreme court, the owner of polluted land is liable for the cleanup of the property even if the owner did not have the responsibility that pollution occurred before the title changed hands.

  1. the owner did not have the responsibility that pollution

  2. the owner is not responsible for pollution that

  3. it was not the owner's responsibility that pollution would have

  4. the responsibility of the owner is not that pollution

  5. the responsibility was not the owner's that pollution would have
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Error of parallelism. 'Is liable' should be followed by 'is not responsible for'.

Multiple choice

Easement is a right in

  1. rem

  2. personam

  3. rem, in general, but in personam, in exceptional cases

  4. Neither (1) nor (2)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is correct: Easement is a right in rem. It means right against the whole world.

Option (2) is incorrect: Easement is not a right in personam.

Option (3) is incorrect: No such provision. Option (4) is incorrect: Only (1) is correct.