Q.1. Who propunded the pigeon hole theory of law of torts?
(1) Fraser
(2) Salmond
(3) Winfield
(4) Pollock
(5) Raz
Ans: (2)
Q.2. Select which of the following statement is incorrect about tort:
(1) tort is concerned with allocation of responsibility for losses.
(2) a person suffering damage due to cuts of others is inclined to look to law for redress.
(3) tort compensates for misfortune
(4) function of tort is allocating or redistributing loss.
(5) Other than these options
Ans: (3)
Q.3. In which of the following cases Holt C.J. observed, "If men will multiply injuries, actions must be multiplied too for every men who is injured ought to have recompense".
(1) Ashby vs White
(2) Donoghue vs Stevenson
(3) Campbell vs Padington corporation
(4) Chasemore vs Richards
(5) Both (2) and (4)
Ans: (1)
Q.4. The maxim ubi jus ibi remedium means:
(1) There shall be no remedy for minor loss.
(2) There is no wrong without a remedy.
(3) One can seek remedy by self-help
(4) For getting remedy one must be just and come with clean hands.
(5) Intention to form a society
Ans: (2)
Q.5. "If is the act, not the motive for the axt, that must be regarded, If the act apart from motive gives rise merely to change without legal injury, the motive, however reprehensible it may be, will not supply that element. "Who made this observation"?
(1) Lord Camden (2) Lord Watson (3) Lord Denning
(4) Lord Macnaughten (5) Thomas Aquinas
Ans: (4)
Q.6. The forms of action are dead but their ghosts still haunt us from their graves. In their life they were powers evil and even in their death, they have not ceased from troubling us" who made this comment?
(1) Winfield (2) Salmond (3) Holms (4) Fraser (5) Grotius
Ans: (2)
Q.7. Which one of the following cases is related to strict liability?
(1) Donoghue vs Stevensons (2) Derry vs Peck
(3) Rylands vs Flectcher (4) Re Polemis case
(5) Other than these options
Ans: (3)
Q.8. In case of tort of defamation publication of statement means:
(1) It must be published in a news paper
(2) It must be published in a book
(3) It must be published through pamphlets.
(4) It must be communicated to a person other than the paintiff.
(5) Other than these options
Ans: (4)
Q.9. In which of the following cases principle of absolute liability was propounded by the Supreme Court of India?
(1) State of U.P. vs Kasturial.
(2) Vidyawati vs State of Rajasthan
(3) Shyam Sunder vs State of Rajasthan
(4) M.C. Mehta vs Union of India
(5) Both (1) and (3)
Ans: (4)
Q.10. Which one of the following is not a defence in an action for defamation?
(1) Justification or truth (2) Fair comment (3) Compulsion
(4) Privillege (5) Intention to defend
Ans: (3)
