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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

Which of the following can be a subject matter of partition?

  1. Joint family property

  2. Impartible estate

  3. Separate property

  4. All of the above

  5. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The joint family property is the subject matter of partition under the Hindu law. Partition is a numerical division of property.

Multiple choice

What is meant by document of title to goods?

  1. Which confers a right on the possessor to transfer the goods to another

  2. A proof of ownership over the goods covered by it

  3. Ownership to deal only after judicial intervention

  4. Both (1) and (3)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Document of title to goods confers a right of the possessor to transfer the goods to another and ownership to deal only after judicial intervention.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the option that best answers the question at the end of the passage.

All over India tenants from all walks of life and particularly bureaucrats and politicians have bought their rented premises from the owners for a pittance in distress sale. Who is the gainer? Only the treacherous tenants. If an inquiry is ordered in all such cases the Government can gain millions of rupees by correctly assessing the market price and then charge the transfer fees. These laws have created mind boggling black money in the shape of pagri. There is no need for any rent laws. No person should occupy or continue to occupy any premises without a proper agreement with the owner. Unauthorized occupation should be made a criminal offence just as bouncing of cheques has been made. The police should be given the powers as in the USA to throw out the belongings of a person who is an unauthorized occupant.

The passage is __________.

  1. suggesting certain steps to be implemented to safeguard the property occupation

  2. talking about black money in property business

  3. focusing on the uncorrupt practices of tenants

  4. about the unauthorized occupation issue in India's real estate
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Option (3) is factually incorrect as per the passage. All the ideas given in options (1), (2) and (4) have been discussed most extensively because along with the problems give by author, he makes certain suggestion which have been incorporated in option (1). This marks correct answer for this question as option (1).

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option in which the usage of the word TRUST is incorrect or inappropriate.

(1) Trust in God and do the right. (2) I trust that the job will soon be finished. (3) To the best of my trust, Francis never made a will. (4) The son being minor, a trust was set up to take care of the vast property. (5) The orphan child was put into the trust by his rich master.

  1. 4

  2. 1

  3. 3

  4. 2

  5. 5
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; the  word is used inappropriately. The correct word should be 'belief', i.e. 'To the best of my belief ___'.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is/are not required in a gift?

  1. Donor and donee

  2. Consideration

  3. Movable or immovable property

  4. Transfer and acceptance

  5. None of above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

As per section 122 of Transfer of Property Act, 1882, "gift" is the transfer of certain existing movable or immovable property made voluntarily and without consideration, by one person, called the donor, to another, called the donee, and accepted by or on behalf of the donee.

Multiple choice

A lets a house to B at a yearly rent of Rs. 500. The rent for the whole of the years 1905, 1906 and 1907 is due and unpaid. A sues B in 1908 only for the rent due for 1906. Which of the following statements is correct?

  1. A can afterwards sue B for the rent due for 1905.

  2. A can afterwards sue B for the rent due for 1907.

  3. A can afterwards sue B for the rent due for both 1905 and 1907.

  4. A cannot sue B afterwards for the rent due for 1905 or 1907.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect: A cannot sue B afterwards for the rent due for 1905. Option (2) is incorrect: A cannot sue B afterwards for the rent due for 1907. Option (3) is incorrect: A cannot sue B afterwards for the rent due for both 1905 and 1907. Option (4) is correct: Where a plaintiff omits to sue in respect of, or intentionally relinquishes any portion of his claim, he shall not afterwards sue in respect of the portion so omitted or relinquished.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is not a movable property under Section 22 of the IPC?

  1. Soil

  2. Cheque

  3. Tree

  4. Fish in a tank
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect: Every type of corporeal property Option (2) is incorrect: Every type of corporeal property Option (3) is correct: The word 'movable property' does not include land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything which is attached to the earth. Option (4) is incorrect: Every type of corporeal property

Multiple choice

Which of the following cannot be transferred?

  1. Spec succession

  2. A right to sue

  3. A right of re-entry to the owner for breach of a condition subsequent

  4. A right to future maintenance
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A mere right of re-entry for breach of a condition subsequent cannot be transferred to anyone except the owner of the property affected thereby.

Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is not correct, in context of Transfer of Property Act?

  1. It is the act by which a living person conveys property.

  2. He conveys property in present or in future.

  3. He conveys property to one or more other living persons.

  4. He cannot transfer property to himself and one or more other living persons.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Options (1), (2) and (3) are incorrect: As per Section 5 of "transfer of property" means an act by which a living person conveys property, in present or in future, to one or more other living persons, or to himself and one or more other living persons; and "to transfer property" is to perform such act. Hence Option (4) is correct: Transfer of property can be made to himself and one or more other living person.

Multiple choice

Any person having the possession or control over the article of movable property, of which he is not the owner, may be compelled to deliver it to the person entitled to the immediate possession in the case where

  1. the possession of the thing claimed has been wrongfully transferred from the plaintiff

  2. the thing claimed is held by the defendant as the agent or trustee of the plaintiff

  3. Both (1) and (2)

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

Option (1) is incorrect: When the possession has been wrongfully transferred from the plaintiff and also when the thing claimed is held by the defendant as the agent or trustee of the plaintiff. Option (2) is incorrect: When the possession has been wrongfully transferred from the plaintiff and also when the thing claimed is held by the defendant as the agent or trustee of the plaintiff. Option (3) is correct: U/s 8 of Specific Relief Act, any person having the possession of movable property, of which he is not the owner, may be compelled to deliver it to the person entitled to the immediate possession in the both the above cases. Option (4) is incorrect: Option (3) is correct.