Multiple Choice QuestionsPrinciple: One of the essential conditions for a marriage between any two persons to be solemnized under the Special Marriage Act. 1954 is that at the time of the marriage the male has completed the age of twenty-one years and the female the age of eighteen years. If the said condition is not fulfilled such a marriage is null and void.
Facts: ‘A’, a male aged twenty-two years, proposes to marry ‘B’ , a female aged sixteen years. At Delhi in the month of June 2014 under the Special Marriage Act, 1954.
Direction: The question consists of two statements, on elabeled as Assertion (A) and other as Reason (R) you are to examine the two statements carefully and select the best option.
Assertion: Republic Day is celebrated on 26th January every year in the country.
Reason: The constitution of India came into force on 26th January 1950
Both A and R are individually true and R is correct explanation to A
Both A and R are Individually true but R is not correct explanation of A
A is true but R is false
A is true but R is false
Principle: Under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 either the husband or the wife can move a petition for a decree of divorce on the ground of desertion. The term „desertion‟ means desertion of the petitioner by the other party to the marriage for a continuous period of not less than two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition. without reasonable cause and without the consent or against the wish of such party and includes the willful neglect of the petitioner by the other party to the marriage. and its grammatical variations and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly. It is also said that desertion is withdrawal not from a place but from a state of things.
Facts: Rohan. a technocrat. went to US in January 201 l for pursuing his higher studies for a period of three years. ln fact, Rohan went to US with the consent of his wife Basanti. who stayed at her parents‟ home, and with a promise of his return to India upon the completion of his studies. From US he has quite often been in touch with his wife. Subsequently. Rohan has got a job there in US and he wishes to take his wife. She refuses to go to US and. in the meanwhile. She files a petition for a decree of divorce on the ground of desertion by her husband.
Principle: Under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, I956, no person shall be capable of being taken in adoption unless he or she is a Hindu, he or she not already been adopted, he or she has not been married, unless there is a custom or usage applicable to the parties which permits persons who are married being taken in adoption, and he or she has not completed the age of fifteen years, unless there is a custom or usage applicable to the parties which permits persons who have completed the age of fifteen years being take in adoption.
Facts: Vijay being natural father had given Tarun, a boy aged 10 years. in adoption to Manoj in March 2010 in accordance with the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956. In May 2o12 Manoj gave Tarun in adoption to Sanjay.
Subsequently in December 2013, Sanjay gave Tarun in adoption to Vijay.
Principle: Under copyright law copyright subsists in original literary works also. A literary work need not be of literary quality. Even so prosaic a work as an index of railway stations or a railway‟ guide or a list of stock exchange quotations qualifies as a literary work if sufficient work has been expended in compiling it to give it a new and original character.
Facts: Michael works hard enough. walking down the streets. taking down the names of people who live at houses and makes a street directory as a result of that labour.
Direction: The question consists of two statements, on elabeled as Assertion (A) and other as Reason (R) you are to examine the two statements carefully and select the best option.
. Assertion: Every person should have the freedom of speech and expression.
Reason: If a person is stopped from speaking then mankind will lose the truth.
Both A and R are individually true and R is correct explanation to A
Both A and R are Individually true but R is not correct explanation of A
A is true but R is false
A is true but R is false
Principle: When two or more persons agree to do, or cause to be done, (1) an illegal act, or (2) an act which is not illegal by illegal means, through such an agreement such persons are said to have been engaged in a criminal conspiracy to commit an offence. It is said that no consummation of the crime need be achieved or even attempted.
Facts: ‘X’, ‘Y’ and ‘Z’ plan to kill ‘D’. They agree that only one among them, that is ‘Z’, will execute the plan. In pursuance of it “Z’ buys a gun and loads it.
Principle: ‘Wrongful gain’ is gain by unlawful means of property to which the person gaining is not legally entitled. ‘Wrongful loss’ is the loss by unlawful means of property to which the person losing it is legally entitled.
Facts: ‘X’ takes away Y’ s watch out of Y’ s possession, without Y’ s consent and with the intention of keeping it.
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‘X’ causes ‘wrongful loss’ to ‘Y’Principle: When an act which would otherwise be a certain offence. is not that offence. By reason of the youth, the want of maturity of understanding. the unsoundness of mind or the intoxication of the person doing that act. or by reason of any misconception on the part of that person, every person has the same right of private defence against that act which he would have if the act were that offence.
Facts: ‘X’ under the influence of madness, attempts to kill ‘Y’.
Principle: Where there is transfer of ownership of one thing for the ownership of some other thing it is called exchange; while transfer of ownership for consideration of money is called sale, whereas, without consideration it becomes gift.
Facts: ‘A’ transfers his house worth ? 50 Lakhs to ‘B’ for a shopping building worth the same amount, as consideration, from ‘B’.
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