MCQ 14 December 2023

Daily Static MCQs for Judiciary Prelims Exams - (14 December 2023)



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Question1:- Mark the incorrect statement
  • (a) Documents forming the acts, or records of the acts of the sovereign authority is a public document
  • (b) Documents forming the acts, or records of the acts of public officers, legislative, judicial and executive, of any part of India or of the Commonwealth, or of a foreign country
  • (c) Public records kept in any District of private documents
  • (d) All are correct
Answer is C is correct. As per Section 74(2) of the Act Public records kept in any State of private documents is a public document. Therefore option (c) is the correct answer.
Question2:- Whether a person has a right to get a copy of a public document under Section 76 of Indian Evidence Act?
  • (a) He only has a right to inspect the public document but no right to get the copy of it
  • (b) He can get the copy of the public document irrespective of the fact whether he has a right to inspect the document
  • (c) He can inspect the whole public document and get the copy of the same
  • (d) He can inspect the part of the public document and can get the copy only if he had the right to inspect it and not otherwise
Answer is D is correct. Section 76 of Indian Evidence Act talks about certified copies of public documents, whereby a person has a right to inspect and can get the copy on payment of the legal fees but this does not mean that he can inspect the whole document but a part of it as held in Suryanarain v. Jhabu Lal. Therefore option (d) is the correct answer.
Question3:- Presumption as to Gazettes in electronic forms under Indian Evidence Act was
  • (a) Inserted by Act 21 of 2000, Section 92
  • (b) Substituted by Act 21 of 2000, Section 92
  • (c) Inserted by Act 22 of 2002, Section 92
  • (d) Inserted by Act 21 of 2002, Section 91
Answer is A is correct. Section 81A was inserted by Act 21 of 2000, Section 92 which was effective from 17 th October 2000. Therefore option (a) is the correct answer.
Question4:- A patwari issued a certified copy of Khatauni without complying with the provisions of law governing its issue
  • (a) Court is bound to draw the presumption under Section 79 of the Indian Evidence Act
  • (b) Court is not bound to draw the presumption under Section 79 of the Indian Evidence Act
  • (c) Court is bound to draw the presumption under Section 80 of the Indian Evidence Act
  • (d) Court is not bound to draw the presumption under Section 82 of the Indian Evidence Act
Answer is B is correct. As per Section 79 of the Act, the court is otherwise bound to presume the genuineness of the document, but in case the patwari issued a certificate copy without complying law then court is not bound. Therefore option (b) is the correct answer.
Question5:- The maxim omnia praesumuntur vitesse acta applies to which documents under Indian Evidence Act
  • (a) Certified copies
  • (b) Documents taken in the course of judicial proceedings
  • (c) Maps or plans made by authority of government
  • (d) Electronic records and electronic signatures
Answer is B is correct. The maxim omnia praesumuntur vitesse acta means all acts presumed to have been done rightly and regularly and it applies to documents taken in the course of judicial proceedings. Therefore option (b) is the correct answer.
Question6:- Satyabrat Ghose v. Mangneeram Bangur (1954 SC) is a case on
  • (a) Minor’s contract
  • (b) Consideration
  • (c) Frustration
  • (d) Contingent contract
Answer is C is correct. Satyabrat Ghose v. Mangneeram Bangur case is related to frustration of contract under Section 56 of the Indian Contract Act. In which Justice Mukherjee held that the basic idea upon which doctrine of frustration is based is that of the impossibility of performance of the contract and the expression frustration and impossibility can also be used as synonyms.Therefore option (c) is the correct answer.
Question7:- The court may strike out any matter in any pleading
  • (a) which may be unnecessary, scandalous, frivolous or vexatious
  • (b) which may tend to prejudice, embarrass or delay the fair trial of the suit
  • (c) which is an abuse of the process of the court
  • (d) all of the above
Answer is D is correct. The court may strike out any matter in any pleading which may be unnecessary, scandalous, frivolous or vexatious or which may tend to prejudice, embarrass or delay the fair trial of the suit or which is an abuse of the process of the court. Therefore option (d)

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