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Q.1 When a court sends someone to judicial custody, what does it mean by judicial custody?

(a) Sent to jail

(b) Sent to police lock up

(c) Sent to home under judicial protection

(d) None of these.

Q.2 In Criminal law, the intention is an essential constituent of offence. In law of Torts

(a) Intention is relevant

(b) Intention is irrelevant

(c) Intention is relevant only in some torts

(d) None of these.

Q.3 The term of office of a judge of the International Court of Justice is

(a) 10 years

(b) 9 years

(c) 7 years

(d) 5 years

Q.4 A death sentence by a lower court

(a) Must be confirmed by High Court

(b) Must be confirmed by Supreme Court

(c) Is operational if no appeal is made to higher courts

(d) Must be confirmed by the President.

Q.5 Ramesh asks his servant to sell his cycle to him at a price less than that of market price. This
contract can be avoided by the servant on the ground of

(a) fraud

(b) mistake

(c) undue influence

(d) coercion.

Q.6 The main purpose of the Law of Contract is

(a) The satisfaction of human desires in the highest practicable degree

(b) where there are conflicting human interests and desires, by establishing a judicial and

administrative system that acts with reasonable degree of uniformity

(c) to do something in accordance with the norm of prescribed law

(d) All of the above.

Q.7 Libel is addressed to the eye; slander to the ear. State which of the following statements are

slander:

(a) Slanderous words uttered by the characters on the dramatic stage

(b) Slanderous words uttered by the characters on the cinema screen

(c) Abuses recorded in the gramophone disc

(d) Both (b) and (c).

Q.8 X takes away a girl out of the custody of her lawful guardians. Which of the following statements
is a complete defence if X is charged under section 361 of the Indian Penal Code for kidnapping on
the ground that the girl was below the age of eighteen years when taken away?

(a) The girl was a student in a college and could understand what was right or wrong for her

(b) The girl was mistreated by the guardians and X promised her a better life

(c) The girl looked more than 18 years of age and the accused had satisfied himself that she was
more than 18 years of age

(d) None of these.

Q.9 PRINCIPLE: A person is liable for any damage which is the direct consequence of his/her

unlawful act, as long as the consequence could have been foreseen by a reasonable person.

During a scuf􀃘e, A knocked B unconscious and then placed B at the foot of a hill at night, when the

temperature was around one degree centigrade. B suffered from hypothermia and had to be

hospitalised for a week. B sues A.

(a) B will be liable for the act, since the consequence was a direct and foreseeable consequence of

his act

(b) B will not be liable because he had no intention of causing hypothermia

(c) B will not be liable because he did not know that A would suffer from hypothermia

(d) B will be liable since A was hospitalized