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UGC NET Paper-II (Law)
January 2017
Number of questions- 50
Marks- 100
1. The Preamble to Constitution of India proclaims that, ‘we, the people of India,’ have established:
- A Sovereign, Socialist, Democratic, Republic only
- A Sovereign, Secular, Democratic, Republic only
- A Secular, Socialist, Democratic, Republic only
- A Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic Republic.
Answer: (d)
2. Match List-I with List-II and give the correct answer by using the codes given below:
List-I
(a) Article 16(3) Amended by
(b) Article 19(5) Amended by
(c) Article 19(6) Amended by
(d) Article 31A(2)(a) Amended by
List-II
(i) 1st Amendment
(ii) 17th Amendment
(iii) 7th Amendment
(iv) 44th Amendment
Codes:
- (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
- (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
- (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
- (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv).
Answer: (a)
3. Read Assertion(A) and Reason(R) and give the correct answer with the help of codes given below:
Assertion(A): Under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India the High Court has discretionary remedy to issue writs.
Reason(R): If the High Court is satisfied that the aggrieved party can have an adequate remedy elsewhere it can refuse to grant writ.
Codes:
- (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
- (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
- (A) is true, but (R) is false
- (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: (a)
4. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List-I (Cases)
(a) Indira Nehru Gandhi v. Raj Narain
(b) Gullapalli Nageswara Rao v. A.P.S.R.T.C.
(c) Fagu Shaw v. State of W.B.
(d) Upendra Baxi v. State of U.P.
List-II (Principles)
(i) Departmental bias
(ii) Preventive detention
(iii) Rights of inmates of protective homes
(iv) Rule of law
Codes:
- (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
- (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
- (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)
- (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv).
Answer: (a)
5. The Fundamental Duties incorporated in Article 51A of the Constitution of India are mere reminder to the citizens, with no enforceability, to ensure their compliance was said by:
- Justice J.S. Verma
- Justice O. Chinnappa Reddy
- Justice Y.V. Chandrachud
- Justice P.N. Bhagwati.
Answer: (a)
6. Justice Mukherjee C.J., speaking for the court, stated “that though the executive power is vested in the president, the president is only a formal or constitutional head of the executive. The real power is vested in the Council of Ministers on whose aid and advise the president acts in the exercise of his functions,” in the following case:
- U.N.R. Rao v. Indira Gandhi
- Ram Jawaya Kapur v. State of Punjab
- Jayantilal Amritlal Shodhan v. F.N. Rao
- Sardarilal v. Union of India.
Answer: (b)
7. The right of a person to be appointed as a guardian of his minor children under the personal law is not a fundamental right was decided by the Supreme Court in one of the following cases:
- Mohd-Aslam v. Union of India
- Sahibzada Saiyed Muhammed Amirabbas Abbasi v. State of Madhya Bharat
- Khatri v. State of Bihar
- Faruk v. State of M.P.
Answer: (b)
8. According to Austin the positive law has following three attributes:
- command, sovereign, obedience
- command, sovereign, sanction
- command, obedience, sanction
- sovereign, obedience, sanction.
Answer: (b)
9. The movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract. This statement is of:
- Hegel
- Savigny
- Henry Maine
- Puchta.
Answer: (c)
10. Match List-I with List-II and give the correct answer by using the codes given below:
List-I
(a) The Concept of Law
(b) The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
(c) Some Reflections on Jurisprudence
(d) Limits of Jurisprudence Defined
List-II
(i) Austin
(ii) Bentham
(iii) Hart
(iv) Buckland
Codes:
- (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)
- (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
- (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
- (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii).
Answer: (b)
11. Which one of the following is not a theory of corporate personality?
- Fiction Theory
- Interest Theory
- Bracket Theory
- Will Theory.
Answer: (d)
12. ‘A’ has a house and nobody should interfere with the enjoyment of proprietary right over the house. This right is called:
- Personal right
- Imperfect right
- Right in rem
- Right in personam.
Answer: (c)
13. Match List-I with List-II and give the correct answer by using the codes given below:
List-I
(a) Theory of Volksgeist
(b) Theory of Social Interest
(c) Theory of Utilitarian Individualism
(d) Gradual and organic process theory
List-II
(i) Bentham
(ii) Ihering
(iii) Burke
(iv) Savigny
Codes:
- (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
- (a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
- (a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
- (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii).
Answer: (c)
14. Who has remarked that “It is both practically inconvenient and also contrary to the best juristic thought to deny its (International law) legal character”?
- H.L.A. Hart
- J.G. Starke
- Edward Collins
- J.L. Brierly.
Answer: (d)
15. Read both Assertion(A) and Reason(R) and give the correct answer by using the codes given below:
Assertion(A): ‘Res Judicata’, ‘estoppel’, etc. are examples of the General Principles of Law recognised by civilised states.
Reason(R): In the case of diversion of water from Muese, the Permanent Court of International justice applied ‘Res Judicata’ and ‘Estoppel.
Codes:
- Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is correct explanation of (A)
- Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is not correct explanation of (A)
- (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong
- (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
Answer: (a)
16. Which of the following is not a “theory” propounded to explain the relationship between International Law and Municipal Law?
- Transformation Theory
- Delegation Theory
- Fiction Theory
- Specific Adoption Theory.
Answer: (c)
17. Which of the following statement/s is/are correct?
(a) The Charter of the United Nations came into force on October 24, 1945.
(b) The purposes of the United Nations are enshrined in Article 2 of the Charter.
(c) The seventh and the last principle of the United Nations states that nothing contained in present Charter shall authorise the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within domestic jurisdiction of any state.
(d) The provision relating to suspension of a Member finds mention in Article 3 of the charter.
Answer by using the codes below: Codes:
- Only (a) and (c) are correct
- (a), (b) and (c) are correct
- (b), (c) and (d) are correct
- (a), (b), (c) and (d) all are correct.
Answer: (a)
18. Which of the following statement/s is/are correct?
(a) “Mediation” is not “pacific means” of settlement of International Disputes.
(b) “Pious Fund Case” is an important decision given by the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
(c) “Retorsion” is a compulsive or ‘coercive’ means of settlement of international Disputes.
(d) A leading case on “Reprisal” is the “Naulilaa Incident”.
Answer by using the codes below: Codes:
- Only (b) is correct
- (a), (b) and (c) are correct
- (b), (c) and (d) are only correct
- (a), (b), (c) and (d) all are correct.
Answer: (b)
19. Which of the following statement/s is/are incorrect?
(a) The Commission on Human Rights was established by the Economic and Social Council in February, 1946.
(b) The General Assembly decided to replace U.N. Human Right Commission by Human Right Council Vide Resolution 60/251 of 15 March, 2006.
(c) The Human Right Council concluded its first session at Hague on 30 June, 2007.
(d) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the General Assembly by a vote of 48 to nil with eight abstentions.
Answer by using the codes below: Codes:
- Only (c) is incorrect
- (a), (b) and (c) are incorrect
- (b), (c) and (d) are incorrect
- (a), (b), (c) and (d) are incorrect.
Answer: (c)
20. Read the following statements and answer with the help of codes given below:
(a) Two persons are said to be related to each other by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife.
(b) Two persons are said to be related to each other by uterine blood when they are descended from a common ancestress but by different husbands.
(c) Two persons are said to be related to each other by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife.
(d) Two persons are said to be related to each other by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor but by different wives.
Codes:
- (a) and (b) are correct, but (c) and (d) are incorrect
- (a), (b) and (d) are correct, but (c) is incorrect
- (d) and (b) are correct, but (c) and (a) are incorrect
- (b) and (c) are correct, but (a) and (d) are incorrect.
Answer: (d)
21. A person shall not be treated as Buddhist under sec. 2 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, if:
- Both of his parents were Buddhists
- His father was Christian, mother was Buddhist and he was brought up as Buddhist child
- His father was Christian, mother was Buddhist and he was brought up as Christian child
- He was a Muslim and has converted to Buddhist religion.
Answer: (c)
22. Ancient sources of Hindu law are:
- Custom, Shruti, Precedent
- Shruti, Vedas, Custom, Legislation
- Smritis, Custom, Precedent
- Shruti, Smritis, Custom, Digests etc.
Answer: (d)
23. The Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act 1937 is applicable to all kinds of property except:
- Agricultural land, testamentary succession and Charities other than wakfs
- Testamentary succession and charities other than wakfs only
- Agricultural land and testamentary succession only
- Agricultural land and charities other than wakfs only.
Answer: (a)
24. Match List-I with List-II under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and give the correct answer using the codes given below:
List-I
(a) Age of marriage
(b) Breakdown grounds of marriage
(c) Overriding effect of Act
(d) Registration of Marriage
List-II
(i) Section 13(1-A)
(ii) Section 8
(iii) Section 5(iii)
(iv) Section 4
Codes:
- (a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
- (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
- (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
- (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii).
Answer: (b)
25. Presently the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 recognizes the following theories of divorce:
- Fault and Mutual Consent
- Mutual Consent and Breakdown of Marriage
- Fault, Breakdown of Marriage, Mutual Consent and Customary
- Fault, Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage and Mutual Consent.
Answer: (c)
26. Talaq Ahsan is:
- Irrevocable
- Revocable during the tuhr in which it has been pronounced
- Revocable until the next successive tuhr
- Revocable during the period of iddat.
Answer: (d)
27. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List-I
(a) Proposal
(b) Invitation to make an offer
(c) Communication of acceptance of offer by acceptor himself
(d) Revocation of offer
List-II
(i) Grainger & Son v. Gough
(ii) Maharashtra Rajya Sahakari Kappas Utpadak Panan Mahasabha Ltd. v. Manga Bhaga Chaudhary
(iii) Henthorn v. Fraser
(iv) Powell v. Lee
Codes:
- (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
- (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
- (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
- (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii).
Answer: (a)
28. Read Assertion(A) and Reason(R) and answer using codes given below:
Assertion(A): An agreement made with consideration is void unless it is in writing and registered.
Reason(R): Because Section 25 of the Indian Contract Act stipulates so.
Codes:
- Both (A) and (R) are right and (R) is correct reason for (A)
- Both (A) and (R) are wrong
- (A) is right, but (R) is wrong
- (R) is right, but (A) is wrong.
Answer: (b)
29. In which one of the following cases doctrine of frustration was laid down?
- BOI Finance Ltd. v. Custodian
- Orissa Textile Mills Ltd. v. Ganesh Das
- Sachidananda Patnaik v. G.P. & Co.
- Taylor v. Caldwell.
Answer: (d)
30. Which of the following statement is correct?
- A person who wrongfully rescinds a contract is entitled to compensation for any damage which he has sustained through the non-fulfilment of the contract
- A person who rightfully rescinds a contract is not entitled to compensation for any damage which he has sustained through the non-fulfilment of the contract
- A person who rightfully rescinds a contract is entitled to compensation for any damage which he has sustained through the non-fulfilment of the contract
- A person who rightfully rescinds a contract is entitled to compensation for any damage which he has not sustained through the non-fulfilment of the contract.
Answer: (c)
31. Every person is competent to contract:
- who is of the age of minority according to law to which he is subject, and who is of sound mind, and is not disqualified from contracting by any law to which he is subject
- who is of the age of majority according to law to which he is not subject, and who is of sound mind, and is not disqualified from contracting by any law to which he is subject
- who is of the age of majority according to law to which he is subject, and who is of sound mind, and is not qualified from contracting by any law to which he is subject
- who is of the age of majority according to law to which he is subject, and who is of sound mind, and is not disqualified from contracting by any law to which he is subject.
Answer: (d)
32. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List-I (Types of Vitiating elements of a contract)
(a) Undue influence
(b) Misrepresentation
(c) Fraud
(d) Mistake
List-II (Relevant case-law)
(i) Nursery Spg. and Wvg. Co. Ltd., Re
(ii) Jaggan Nath v. Secy of State for India
(iii) Lancashire Loans v. Black
(iv) Derry v. Peek
Codes:
- (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
- (a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
- (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
- (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv).
Answer: (c)
33. Read Assertion(A) and Reason(R) and answer using codes given below:
Assertion(A): Compensation is recoverable for any loss or damage which the parties knew at the time of the contract as unlikely to result from the breach of the contract.
Reason(R): Because above rule is laid down in Hadley v. Baxendale case.
Codes:
- Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is correct reason for (A)
- Both (A) and (R) are wrong
- (A) is right, but (R) is wrong
- (R) is right, but (A) is wrong.
Answer: (b)
34. Match List-I (Name of case) with List-II (Decision of case) by using codes below:
List-I (Name of case)
(a) Manju Bhatia v. New Delhi Municipal Corporation
(b) Municipal Corporation Delhi v. Sushila Devi
(c) Union of India v. Lalman
(d) M.S. Grewal v. Deepchand Sood
List-II (Decision of cases)
(i) Liability of owner of tree for an injury caused by its falling
(ii) Legal duty of Railway to assure reasonable safety at railway level crossing
(iii) Teacher’s duty of care towards children when they are taken out on a picnic for fun and swim
(iv) Liability of builder towards purchasers of flats
Codes:
- (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
- (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
- (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
- (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii).
Answer: (d)
35. Read Assertion(A) and Reason(R) and answer using codes given below:
Assertion(A): Acts of state are directed against another sovereign state or its sovereign personally or its subjects.
Reason(R): Acts of executive Government in the name of President in normal course of administration are acts of state and are not open to judicial scrutiny.
Codes:
- Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is correct reason of (A)
- Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not correct reason of (A)
- (A) is right, but (R) is wrong
- (R) is right, but (A) is wrong.
Answer: (c)
36. Which of the following is correct?
(a) Corporation is vicariously liable for acts done by its employees.
(b) Minor is liable for the torts committed by him.
(c) Wife is liable under law of torts to her husband if she negligently fractures his legs.
(d) Tort committed by any partner in the ordinary course of business of firm all other partners are liable.
Answer by using the codes below: Codes:
- (a), (b), (c) and (d)
- (a), (b) and (c)
- (a), (b) and (d)
- (a) and (d).
Answer: (c)
37. In which case the principle ‘ubi jus ibi remedium’ was recognized?
- Rylands v. Fletcher
- Asbhy v. White
- Ashdown v. Samuel Williams
- Pema Chibber v. Union of India.
Answer: (b)
38. State Government may notify that State Commission may perform its function at other places other than state capital. Who needs to be consulted by the State Government for such notification under Consumer Protection Act?
- Central Government
- National Commission
- State Commission
- State Commission and High Court.
Answer: (c)
39. Who among the following cannot file a complaint before the District Forum under Section 12 of the Consumer Protection Act?
- One consumer and not more than one consumer
- Any recognized consumer association
- Central and State Government
- One or more consumers.
Answer: (a)
40. The degree of cogence need not reach certainty but it must carry a high degree of probability. ‘As per the statement answer using codes as to in which of the situations, in sequential order the principle of natural justice is applied: Codes:
(a) Alibi
(b) Self-incrimination
(c) Presumption of innocence
(d) Strict liability
Sequence of order:
- (a), (b), (c), (d)
- (d), (c), (a), (b)
- (c), (b), (a), (d)
- (b), (c), (d), (a).
Answer: (b)
41. The principle of ‘Quod necessitas non habet leegen’ is applied in circumstances of:
- an act done in order to avoid consequence
- in a little harm that resulted in the consequence
- a harm resulted in order to do another evil
- self-preservation.
Answer: (d)
42. Aggravated abetment can be found within the public:
- when the act was done by any one of the ten or more members present
- when the act was done by one of the seven members while collecting funds from other public
- while a person affixing a poster on the wall specially called attention of an assembly of five persons to protest against police excesses
- when an un-named member of a fluctuating population incite others to undertake a strike to stop train movement.
Answer: (a)
43. In which of the matters it was held that disclosure of identity of victim either by printing or publishing will not amount to penal liability?
- In a judgment given by the Session’s Judge on the ground of social victimisation
- In a judgment given by the High Court on the ground of Ostracism
- In a judgment given either by High Court or Supreme Court on the ground of preventing social victimisation or contracism
- In a judgment given by the Supreme Court on the ground of prevention from social victimisation.
Answer: (c)
44. Read Assertion(A) and Reason(R) and answer the reasonableness using the ‘code’ given below:
Assertion(A): Section 304-A is directed at offences outside the range of Sections 299 and 300.
Reason(R): It contemplates those acts into which neither intention nor knowledge enters.
Codes:
- Both (A) and (R) are correct as the act results from rash and negligence act
- (A) is correct as certain acts are unjustifiable while (R) is not the correct reason as it falls short of culpable homicide
- (R) is correct while (A) is incorrect application to the rule of culpable homicide to cause murder
- Both (A) and (R) are incorrect statement as to imposing penalty.
Answer: (a)
45. Read Assertion(A) and Reason(R) and answer using codes given below:
Assertion(A): Multiple Trade Unions in industries and the consequential necessity for selecting one as the recognised union by the management devising a method on democratic principles is necessary.
Reason(R): The Union which represents the largest number of workmen working in the undertaking must acquire the status as that would be in tune with the concept of Industrial democracy.
Codes:
- (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
- (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
- (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong
- (A) is wrong, but (R) is right.
Answer: (a)
46. The working class unfamiliar with the sophistications of definitions and shower of decisions, unable to secure expert legal opinion, what with poverty pricing them out of justice market and denying them the staying power to withstand the multi-decked litigative process, defacto is denied social justice if legal drafting is vagarious, definitions indefinite and court rulings contradictory. The above remarks were made in support of an expensive definition of “”Industry”” by one of the following justice:
- Justice O. Chinnappa Reddy
- Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer
- Justice Gajendragadkar
- S.P. Bharucha.
Answer: (b)
47. Which one of the following is incorrect?
- Workman whose name is borne on the muster rolls of an industrial establishment and who has completed one year of continuous service under an employer is laid off, whether continuously or intermittently shall be paid by the employer for all days during which he is so laid off except for such weekly holidays
- Termination on the ground of misconduct or continued ill health of a workman is not a retrenchment
- Lock-out means the permanent closing of a place of employment, or the total suspension or the refusal by an employer to continue to employ any number of persons employed
- The right to close down the business, trade or undertaking is subject to payment of compensation to the workers engaged in the business immediately before the closure.
Answer: (c)
48. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List-I
(a) Kalinga Tubes Ltd. v. Their workmen
(b) Bank of India v. T.S. Kelawala and others
(c) Bombay Union of Journalist v. State of Bombay
(d) Coir Board v. Indira Devi P.S. and others
List-II
(i) Deduction of wages for the period of strike
(ii) Closure has to be genuine and bonafide
(iii) Definition of Industry
(iv) Condition precedent to retrenchment of workman
Codes:
- (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)
- (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
- (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
- (a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i).
Answer: (b)
49. Reference of an Industrial Dispute, the subject matter of which is covered by a settlement as defined in Section 2(P) of the Act would be:
- valid during the operation of such settlement
- invalid during the operation of such settlement
- valid and subject to the importance of Industrial Dispute
- voidable at the option of the parties to the dispute during the operation of such settlement.
Answer: (b)
50. Read Assertion(A) and Reason(R) and answer using codes given below:
Assertion(A): The retention of Industrial Adjudication is necessary till all Trade Unions attain sufficient strength to bargain with employers, from a position of equality.
Reason(R): Collective Bargaining presently provides only lip services, whereas in practice it has perpetuated Adjudication.
Codes:
- (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
- (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
- (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong
- (A) is wrong, but (R) is right.
Answer: (a)
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