List of top Legal Studies Questions

Principle: A minor’s agreement is void ab initio and cannot be validated or enforced. Facts: 'A', a boy of 16 years, agrees to buy a camera from 'B', a 21-year-old girl.

Principle: A contract which is duly supported by real and lawful consideration is valid notwithstanding that the consideration is inadequate. The court may consider inadequacy only to determine whether consent was freely given. Facts: 'A' sells a mobile phone worth Rs. 20,000 to 'B' for Rs. 10.

Principle: The consideration or object of an agreement is unlawful if it is forbidden by law. Every agreement with an unlawful object or consideration is void. Facts: 'X' promises to pay 'Y' Rs. 50,000 if 'Y' commits a crime, and 'X' further promises to indemnify 'Y' against any liability. 'Y' agrees to act.

Principle: The consideration or object of an agreement is unlawful if the Court regards it as opposed to public policy. Facts: 'X' promises to secure a public service job for 'Y', and 'Y' promises to pay Rs. 5,00,000 to 'X'.

Principle: When one person signifies to another his willingness to do or to abstain from doing anything, with a view to obtaining the assent of that other to such act or abstinence, he is said to make a proposal. The expression of willingness/desire results in a valid proposal only when it is made/addressed to some person(s). Facts: 'X' makes the following statement in an uninhabited hall: "I wish to sell my mobile phone for Rs. 1,000."

S.5 of the Limitation Act, 1963 enables the court to condone delay in filing _______ on sufficient satisfaction of sufficient cause.

Existence of two suits, by parties litigating under same title, one previously instituted which is pending at present and the other filed later, wherein a matter in issue in the subsequently filed suit is directly and substantially in issue in the other and the relief claimed in the subsequent suit can effectively be passed by the court of previous instance. Which section of CPC decides the fate of the subsequently filed suit and its proceeding?

Where a party to a suit requires information as to facts from the opposite party, he may administer to his adversary a series of questions. It is called as

A person appointed by the court to protect, preserve and manage the property during the pendency of the litigation

The provision under CPC that relates to suit by indigent persons

An attachment before judgment order takes away

Who decides as to which of the several modes he/she will execute the decree

Which provision of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 deals with conciliation

Oral accounts of the contents of a document given by some person who has himself seen it is

Which are the provisions under Indian Evidence Act, 1872 that deals with relevancy of opinion of experts

An accomplice is unworthy of credit unless he is corroborated in material particulars is a

The contents of documents may be proved either by

The statements of dead persons are relevant under which provision

Patent ambiguity in interpreting documents renders it

"The DNA test cannot rebut the conclusive presumption, envisaged under S.112 of the Indian Evidence Act. The parties can avoid the rigor of such conclusive presumption only by proving non- access which is a negative proof." It was so held in which case

"Witnesses are the eyes and ears of Justice". Whose statement is this

Specific relief can be granted only for the purpose of enforcing individual civil rights and not for the mere purpose of enforcing a penal law. Which provision brings in such prohibition?

It was held by the Supreme Court of India that preamble was not a part of the constitution in the case of _______ and this has been overruled in the case of _____