List of practice Questions

The power to promulgate an Ordinance is essentially a power to be used to meet an extraordinary situation and it cannot be allowed to be "perverted to serve political ends"... if the Executive were permitted to continue the provisions of an ordinance in force by adopting the methodology of re-promulgating without submitting to the voice of the Legislature, it would be nothing short of the usurpation by the Executive of the law-making function of the Legislature..."
The above statement has been quoted from the case decided by the Supreme Court of India. Please select the case carrying above quotation from the following:

A contracting party is under no obligation to disclose the whole truth to the other party or to give him the whole information in his possession affecting the subject-matter of the contract, Pick the most appropriate option for the statement:

'A surety's liability can be discharged only by release of principal debtor'. Pick the appropriate option/s in relation to the given statement from the following:

Following is true in the case of frustration of contracts:

"The victim cannot be considered to be any match to the multinational companies or the government with whom in the conditions that the victims or their representatives were after the disaster physically, mentally, financially, economically and also because of the position of litigation would have to contend. People needed the State's protection and should come within the umbrella of State's sovereignty to assert, establish and maintain their rights against the wrongdoers in this mass disaster. In that perspective, it is jurisprudentially possible to apply the principle of parens patriae doctrine to the victims..."
In which Constitution Bench judgment, the Supreme Court of India enunciated the doctrine of parens patriae: 

What is true about transfer of immoveable property:

What is true to the principle of estoppel? Select the most appropriate option:

Select the incorrect statement from the following:

A _analysis, would form the foundation for general observations, such as categories of persons who are disadvantaged by the application of the legislation.

"A Constitution may indicate the direction in which we are to move, but the Social structure will decide how far we are able to move and at what pace.' Who had written the above statement? Select the correct option from the following:

A person deposited his suitcase at a cloak room at a railway station. He was handed over a ticket by the clerk on the face of which it was mentioned "see back". On the back of the ticket, there was a notice that the railway administration will not be responsible for any luggage exceeding Rs 5000/- value. In the cloak room a notice to the same affect was hung. The person's suitcase was lost and he claimed the full value of his loss approximating around Rs 20,000/-. On the basis of the above, select the correct answer:

Doctrinal legal research is____ while, non- doctrinal legal research is 'research about law'.

Footnotes or endnotes are meant for cross references, citation of authorities and sources, ,elucidation or explanation of a point of view and___

___include directories, subject guides and Union lists.

___research is related to some abstract idea(s) or theory. It is generally used by philosophers and thinkers to develop new concepts or to re-interpret the existing ones.

___ A is an integrated and organized discussion of the literature pertaining to a well- defined subject. It usually covers a limited period of time.

Doctoral dissertations (theses leading to Ph D Degree), which offer very systematic and in-depth analysis of the subject-matter/aspect conclusions/opinions/suggestions based on the analysis, constitute another_____ source of information.

Legal scholars, interested in having insight into policy of law its implementation or 'understanding 'social dimension' or role of law, in the absence of their own well- developed legal research methodology, have to place their reliance on the social science techniques of_____ and research methodology.

___observation is a widely used method in flexible designs, particularly those which follow an ethnographic approach.

____requires the necessary sub-skills for fact collection, legal analysis, legal knowledge, problem identification, legal analysis, fact analysis, further fact collection, identification of avenues of research, and generation of key (search) words.

The whole group from which the sample is drawn is technically a universe or population and the group actually selected for a study is known as ___.

A_____ analysis might try to show which arguments are given weight in the first instance, how precedential decisions are used and the like, perhaps examine the degree to which classical, legal values as well as predictability are given consideration in general legislation.

After collecting and analyzing the data, the researcher has to accomplish the task of drawing inferences, followed by____.

An important use of empiricism is to analyze legal rules in the light of a certain theory or, alternatively by using the _____as an important part of the analysis, for a legal.

____are brief statements of the contents of research articles published in periodicals and/or anthologies, without appraisal.