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Legal Terms and Legal Structure -3

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Sui-Juris means

  1. capable of managing one’s affairs or assuming legal responsibility

  2. beyond the purview of the courts

  3. a suit that is not pursued by the plaintiff

  4. none of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In civil law, the phrase sui juris indicates legal competence, the capacity to manage one’s own affairs.

Modus operandi means

  1. not negotiable

  2. way of working

  3. operational efficiency

  4. jurisdiction of a law court


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Modus operandi means a method of operating or functioning.

Bona fide is

  1. real

  2. genuine

  3. good faith

  4. not intentionally

  5. All of above


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Bona fide means without intention to deceive or in good faith.

’Due Process of law’ means

  1. fair legal proceedings

  2. judicial intervention

  3. legal approval

  4. legal enactment


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

’Due Process of law’ means fair treatment through the normal judicial system. Due process of law is a constitutional guarantee that prevents governments from impacting citizens in an abusive way.

In legal terminology ‘remedy’ means

  1. legal means of enforcing a right

  2. legal course for redressing a wrong

  3. both 1 and 2

  4. none of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The manner in which a right is enforced or satisfied by a court when some harm or injury recognized by society as a wrongful act, is inflicted upon an individual.

Reprieve is

  1. reduction in sentence

  2. postponement of a sentence

  3. immunity from legal action

  4. pardon


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Reprieve is generally an act of clemency that is extended to a prisoner in order to give him or her an opportunity to find a mean or reason for reducing the sentence imposed.

The term ‘justiciable’ means

  1. just and fair

  2. capable of being settled by law

  3. not amenable to action of a court

  4. capable of being justified

  5. All of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Option (2) is correct: Justiciable means that a dispute or a case which is enforceable by the law.

‘Judicial’ murder is

  1. murder by a judge

  2. an unjust sentence of death

  3. a biased judgment

  4. murder within the court’s complex


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Judicial Murder is death caused by a court sentence held to be legal but unjust. 

Authority is

  1. an official or judicial command

  2. a non-official command

  3. a non-judicial command

  4. a legislative command

  5. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Authority is the power to determine, adjudicate or otherwise settle issues or disputes; the right to control, command or determine. 

Veto is

  1. any authoritative prohibition

  2. a writ or order issued by some authority

  3. a public official charge

  4. none of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A veto is the power (used by an officer of the state, for example) to unilaterally stop an official action, especially the enactment of legislation.

A contract is

  1. an agreement enforceable by law

  2. a set of promises

  3. a communication of intention to do something or abstain from doing

  4. a promise to do something or abstain from doing something


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A contract is an agreement enforceable by law.  An agreement must meet certain criteria in order to be enforceable by law and qualify as contract.

Causing hurt with intention or knowledge is called

  1. assault

  2. criminal use of force

  3. voluntarily causing hurt

  4. none of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Causing hurt with intention or knowledge is called voluntarily causing hurt define under section 321 of Indian penal Code.

Minor’s contract is

  1. void

  2. voidable

  3. voidable at the option of the minor

  4. illegal


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

An agreement by a minor involves a promise on his part and he is incapable of giving a promise imposing a legal obligation. Indian Contract act declares that a minor is not competent. Therefore, the agreement with the minor is void ab initio i.e void from the beginning.

When force is used to cause bodily pain, disease or infirmity to any person, it is called

  1. hurt

  2. assault

  3. grievous assault

  4. none of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

When force is used to cause bodily pain, disease or infirmity to any person, it is called hurt as defined under section 319 of Indian penal Code.

The most important instrument of legal reform is

  1. custom

  2. legislation

  3. writings of legal experts

  4. none of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Law reform or legal reform is the process of examining existing laws, and advocating and implementing changes in a legal system, usually with the aim of enhancing justice or efficiency. The most important instrument of legal reform is legislation.  

The two classes of advocates in India are

  1. advocates and senior advocates

  2. barristers and solicitors

  3. lawyers and judges

  4. none of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Under section 16 of the Advocates Act, 1961, there shall be two classes of advocates namely senior advocates and other advocates.

What does COPRA stand for?

  1. Consumer Courts Act, 1985

  2. Consumer (Protection of Rights) Act, 1990

  3. Consumer Protection Act, 1986

  4. Consumer Protection and Restoring Act, 1986

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Consumer Protection Act 1986 (Copra) is an act of Parliament of India enacted in 1986 to protect interests of consumers in India.

If a witness makes a statement in the court, knowing it to be false. He commits the offence of

  1. perils

  2. false evidence

  3. perjury

  4. primary evidence


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Perjury also known as forswearing is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or of falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding.

What is the full form of COFEPOSA?

  1. Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Providing of Smuggling Act.

  2. Conservation of Foreign Currency Received through Export Act.

  3. Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Act.

  4. Conservations of Foreign Exchange and Prohibition of Smuggling ACt

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974.

A juvenile delinquent means

  1. hardened criminal

  2. drug peddler

  3. minor who commits criminal acts

  4. street urchin


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

A juvenile delinquent means a person who is below 18 and who is found to have committed a crime in states.

Sex-determination tests have been banned by

  1. Ultra-Sound Control Act

  2. Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act

  3. SDT (Prohibition) Act

  4. The Abortion Law Reform Act, 2008

  5. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to stop female foeticides and arrest the declining sex ratio in India. The act banned pre-natal sex determination.

A document which authorises a person to act as the agent of the grant or of the power with regard to specific matters is called

  1. Seed

  2. Right of Attorney

  3. Power of Attorney

  4. Licence

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

A written document in which one person (the principal) appoints another person to act as an agent on his or her behalf, thereby conferring authority on the agent to perform certain acts or functions on behalf of the principal is called Power of Attorney.

Quash means

  1. to reprimand

  2. to appeal

  3. to prosecute

  4. to annul


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Quash means to put an end to or destroy. 

Money paid to abductors to secure the release of someone who has been abducted is called

  1. random

  2. ransom

  3. ransack

  4. extortion


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Ransom is the practice of holding a prisoner or item to extort money or property to secure their release, or it may refer to the sum of money involved.

Prima facie means

  1. in contract

  2. in confidence

  3. things seen at first

  4. in the face of

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The term prima facie is used to describe the apparent nature of something upon initial observation. Prima facie is a Latin expression meaning 'on its first encounter or at first sight'.

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