CUSAT Three-Year LL.B. 2019 Question Paper with Answers

Who was the chairman of the first law commission and drafted the Indian Penal Code?

The birth and death of legal persons are determined by

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The absence of law and order

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The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory nearby and the proprietor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post office established.

Our postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. His office and living-room were in a dark thatched shed, not far from a green, slimy pond, surrounded on all sides by dense growth.

The men employed in the indigo factory had no leisure, moreover they were hardly desirable companions for decent folk. Nor is a Calcutta boy an adept in the art of associating with others. Among strangers he appears either proud or ill at ease. At any rate the postmaster had but little company, nor had he much to do.

At times he tried his hand at writing a verse or two. That the movement of the leaves and clouds of the sky were enough to fill life with joy- such were the sentiments to which he sought to give expression. But God knows that the poor fellow would have felt it as the gift of a new life, if some genie of the Arabian Nights had in one night swept away the trees, leaves and all, and replaced them with a macadamized road, hiding the clouds from view with rows of tall houses.

The adjective used to describe the postmaster’s living room is

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The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory nearby and the proprietor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post office established.

Our postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. His office and living-room were in a dark thatched shed, not far from a green, slimy pond, surrounded on all sides by dense growth.

The men employed in the indigo factory had no leisure, moreover they were hardly desirable companions for decent folk. Nor is a Calcutta boy an adept in the art of associating with others. Among strangers he appears either proud or ill at ease. At any rate the postmaster had but little company, nor had he much to do.

At times he tried his hand at writing a verse or two. That the movement of the leaves and clouds of the sky were enough to fill life with joy- such were the sentiments to which he sought to give expression. But God knows that the poor fellow would have felt it as the gift of a new life, if some genie of the Arabian Nights had in one night swept away the trees, leaves and all, and replaced them with a macadamized road, hiding the clouds from view with rows of tall houses.

What does the phrase ‘ill at ease’ in the passage mean?

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The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory nearby and the proprietor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post office established.

Our postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. His office and living-room were in a dark thatched shed, not far from a green, slimy pond, surrounded on all sides by dense growth.

The men employed in the indigo factory had no leisure, moreover they were hardly desirable companions for decent folk. Nor is a Calcutta boy an adept in the art of associating with others. Among strangers he appears either proud or ill at ease. At any rate the postmaster had but little company, nor had he much to do.

At times he tried his hand at writing a verse or two. That the movement of the leaves and clouds of the sky were enough to fill life with joy- such were the sentiments to which he sought to give expression. But God knows that the poor fellow would have felt it as the gift of a new life, if some genie of the Arabian Nights had in one night swept away the trees, leaves and all, and replaced them with a macadamized road, hiding the clouds from view with rows of tall houses.

What does the phrase ‘little company’ in the passage mean?

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The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory nearby and the proprietor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post office established.

Our postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. His office and living-room were in a dark thatched shed, not far from a green, slimy pond, surrounded on all sides by dense growth.

The men employed in the indigo factory had no leisure, moreover they were hardly desirable companions for decent folk. Nor is a Calcutta boy an adept in the art of associating with others. Among strangers he appears either proud or ill at ease. At any rate the postmaster had but little company, nor had he much to do.

At times he tried his hand at writing a verse or two. That the movement of the leaves and clouds of the sky were enough to fill life with joy- such were the sentiments to which he sought to give expression. But God knows that the poor fellow would have felt it as the gift of a new life, if some genie of the Arabian Nights had in one night swept away the trees, leaves and all, and replaced them with a macadamized road, hiding the clouds from view with rows of tall houses.

At times, the postmaster wrote

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The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory nearby and the proprietor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post office established.

Our postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. His office and living-room were in a dark thatched shed, not far from a green, slimy pond, surrounded on all sides by dense growth.

The men employed in the indigo factory had no leisure, moreover they were hardly desirable companions for decent folk. Nor is a Calcutta boy an adept in the art of associating with others. Among strangers he appears either proud or ill at ease. At any rate the postmaster had but little company, nor had he much to do.

At times he tried his hand at writing a verse or two. That the movement of the leaves and clouds of the sky were enough to fill life with joy- such were the sentiments to which he sought to give expression. But God knows that the poor fellow would have felt it as the gift of a new life, if some genie of the Arabian Nights had in one night swept away the trees, leaves and all, and replaced them with a macadamized road, hiding the clouds from view with rows of tall houses.

The postmaster wrote on the

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The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory nearby and the proprietor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post office established.

Our postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. His office and living-room were in a dark thatched shed, not far from a green, slimy pond, surrounded on all sides by dense growth.

The men employed in the indigo factory had no leisure, moreover they were hardly desirable companions for decent folk. Nor is a Calcutta boy an adept in the art of associating with others. Among strangers he appears either proud or ill at ease. At any rate the postmaster had but little company, nor had he much to do.

At times he tried his hand at writing a verse or two. That the movement of the leaves and clouds of the sky were enough to fill life with joy- such were the sentiments to which he sought to give expression. But God knows that the poor fellow would have felt it as the gift of a new life, if some genie of the Arabian Nights had in one night swept away the trees, leaves and all, and replaced them with a macadamized road, hiding the clouds from view with rows of tall houses.

The word ‘genie’ means

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The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory nearby and the proprietor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post office established.

Our postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. His office and living-room were in a dark thatched shed, not far from a green, slimy pond, surrounded on all sides by dense growth.

The men employed in the indigo factory had no leisure, moreover they were hardly desirable companions for decent folk. Nor is a Calcutta boy an adept in the art of associating with others. Among strangers he appears either proud or ill at ease. At any rate the postmaster had but little company, nor had he much to do.

At times he tried his hand at writing a verse or two. That the movement of the leaves and clouds of the sky were enough to fill life with joy- such were the sentiments to which he sought to give expression. But God knows that the poor fellow would have felt it as the gift of a new life, if some genie of the Arabian Nights had in one night swept away the trees, leaves and all, and replaced them with a macadamized road, hiding the clouds from view with rows of tall houses.

Which factory was situated near the village Ulapur?

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The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory nearby and the proprietor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post office established.

Our postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. His office and living-room were in a dark thatched shed, not far from a green, slimy pond, surrounded on all sides by dense growth.

The men employed in the indigo factory had no leisure, moreover they were hardly desirable companions for decent folk. Nor is a Calcutta boy an adept in the art of associating with others. Among strangers he appears either proud or ill at ease. At any rate the postmaster had but little company, nor had he much to do.

At times he tried his hand at writing a verse or two. That the movement of the leaves and clouds of the sky were enough to fill life with joy- such were the sentiments to which he sought to give expression. But God knows that the poor fellow would have felt it as the gift of a new life, if some genie of the Arabian Nights had in one night swept away the trees, leaves and all, and replaced them with a macadamized road, hiding the clouds from view with rows of tall houses.

What does the idiom ‘fish out of water’ suggest?

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The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory nearby and the proprietor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post office established.

Our postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. His office and living-room were in a dark thatched shed, not far from a green, slimy pond, surrounded on all sides by dense growth.

The men employed in the indigo factory had no leisure, moreover they were hardly desirable companions for decent folk. Nor is a Calcutta boy an adept in the art of associating with others. Among strangers he appears either proud or ill at ease. At any rate the postmaster had but little company, nor had he much to do.

At times he tried his hand at writing a verse or two. That the movement of the leaves and clouds of the sky were enough to fill life with joy- such were the sentiments to which he sought to give expression. But God knows that the poor fellow would have felt it as the gift of a new life, if some genie of the Arabian Nights had in one night swept away the trees, leaves and all, and replaced them with a macadamized road, hiding the clouds from view with rows of tall houses.

Find a word in the passage which is the opposite of ‘near’

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The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory nearby and the proprietor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post office established.

Our postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. His office and living-room were in a dark thatched shed, not far from a green, slimy pond, surrounded on all sides by dense growth.

The men employed in the indigo factory had no leisure, moreover they were hardly desirable companions for decent folk. Nor is a Calcutta boy an adept in the art of associating with others. Among strangers he appears either proud or ill at ease. At any rate the postmaster had but little company, nor had he much to do.

At times he tried his hand at writing a verse or two. That the movement of the leaves and clouds of the sky were enough to fill life with joy- such were the sentiments to which he sought to give expression. But God knows that the poor fellow would have felt it as the gift of a new life, if some genie of the Arabian Nights had in one night swept away the trees, leaves and all, and replaced them with a macadamized road, hiding the clouds from view with rows of tall houses.

Find a word in the passage which means ‘the owner of a business’.

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There is something to be said for the man who would prefer to be a savage rather than a member of a civilized race. What exactly has civilization done for us? For one thing, it has deprived us of the ability to be “self sufficing men of our hands”. The labourer, nowadays, understands one thing only-perhaps how to punch out biscuits from a slab of pulp without making the circles intersect. It has made us mentally lazy. Actual reading in early times, even in the seventeenth century, demanded real mental exercise on the part of the reader. Modern prose, even the most ephemeral, is generally clear, both in expression and in print. In consequence, reading is now purely receptive-it is not work at all a mild anodyne, or a stimulus to day-dreaming. Newspaper-reading seems to be largely the result of interest in various athletics and betting topics which make no demand on the intellect whatever. There is a wide desire for general knowledge, it is true, but only the results are of interest, not the method by which they are arrived at. Science must be presented, in a tabloid form and this in a ‘scientific’ age! People even prefer less mental effort to absorb. Even education is mainly spoon-feeding. Fifty years ago the student had to puzzle out difficulties by himself, but today sits luxuriously before a crib, two commentaries and a book of lecture notes. He need not use his brains at all.

The author’s feeling towards “the man who would prefer to be a savage” is one of

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There is something to be said for the man who would prefer to be a savage rather than a member of a civilized race. What exactly has civilization done for us? For one thing, it has deprived us of the ability to be “self sufficing men of our hands”. The labourer, nowadays, understands one thing only-perhaps how to punch out biscuits from a slab of pulp without making the circles intersect. It has made us mentally lazy. Actual reading in early times, even in the seventeenth century, demanded real mental exercise on the part of the reader. Modern prose, even the most ephemeral, is generally clear, both in expression and in print. In consequence, reading is now purely receptive-it is not work at all a mild anodyne, or a stimulus to day-dreaming. Newspaper-reading seems to be largely the result of interest in various athletics and betting topics which make no demand on the intellect whatever. There is a wide desire for general knowledge, it is true, but only the results are of interest, not the method by which they are arrived at. Science must be presented, in a tabloid form and this in a ‘scientific’ age! People even prefer less mental effort to absorb. Even education is mainly spoon-feeding. Fifty years ago the student had to puzzle out difficulties by himself, but today sits luxuriously before a crib, two commentaries and a book of lecture notes. He need not use his brains at all.

‘What exactly has civilization done for us?’ This question, as asked in the passage,

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There is something to be said for the man who would prefer to be a savage rather than a member of a civilized race. What exactly has civilization done for us? For one thing, it has deprived us of the ability to be “self sufficing men of our hands”. The labourer, nowadays, understands one thing only-perhaps how to punch out biscuits from a slab of pulp without making the circles intersect. It has made us mentally lazy. Actual reading in early times, even in the seventeenth century, demanded real mental exercise on the part of the reader. Modern prose, even the most ephemeral, is generally clear, both in expression and in print. In consequence, reading is now purely receptive-it is not work at all a mild anodyne, or a stimulus to day-dreaming. Newspaper-reading seems to be largely the result of interest in various athletics and betting topics which make no demand on the intellect whatever. There is a wide desire for general knowledge, it is true, but only the results are of interest, not the method by which they are arrived at. Science must be presented, in a tabloid form and this in a ‘scientific’ age! People even prefer less mental effort to absorb. Even education is mainly spoon-feeding. Fifty years ago the student had to puzzle out difficulties by himself, but today sits luxuriously before a crib, two commentaries and a book of lecture notes. He need not use his brains at all.

The phrase “Self-sufficing men of our hands” means

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There is something to be said for the man who would prefer to be a savage rather than a member of a civilized race. What exactly has civilization done for us? For one thing, it has deprived us of the ability to be “self sufficing men of our hands”. The labourer, nowadays, understands one thing only-perhaps how to punch out biscuits from a slab of pulp without making the circles intersect. It has made us mentally lazy. Actual reading in early times, even in the seventeenth century, demanded real mental exercise on the part of the reader. Modern prose, even the most ephemeral, is generally clear, both in expression and in print. In consequence, reading is now purely receptive-it is not work at all a mild anodyne, or a stimulus to day-dreaming. Newspaper-reading seems to be largely the result of interest in various athletics and betting topics which make no demand on the intellect whatever. There is a wide desire for general knowledge, it is true, but only the results are of interest, not the method by which they are arrived at. Science must be presented, in a tabloid form and this in a ‘scientific’ age! People even prefer less mental effort to absorb. Even education is mainly spoon-feeding. Fifty years ago the student had to puzzle out difficulties by himself, but today sits luxuriously before a crib, two commentaries and a book of lecture notes. He need not use his brains at all.

“It has made us mentally lazy”. “It” in this sentence refers to

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There is something to be said for the man who would prefer to be a savage rather than a member of a civilized race. What exactly has civilization done for us? For one thing, it has deprived us of the ability to be “self sufficing men of our hands”. The labourer, nowadays, understands one thing only-perhaps how to punch out biscuits from a slab of pulp without making the circles intersect. It has made us mentally lazy. Actual reading in early times, even in the seventeenth century, demanded real mental exercise on the part of the reader. Modern prose, even the most ephemeral, is generally clear, both in expression and in print. In consequence, reading is now purely receptive-it is not work at all a mild anodyne, or a stimulus to day-dreaming. Newspaper-reading seems to be largely the result of interest in various athletics and betting topics which make no demand on the intellect whatever. There is a wide desire for general knowledge, it is true, but only the results are of interest, not the method by which they are arrived at. Science must be presented, in a tabloid form and this in a ‘scientific’ age! People even prefer less mental effort to absorb. Even education is mainly spoon-feeding. Fifty years ago the student had to puzzle out difficulties by himself, but today sits luxuriously before a crib, two commentaries and a book of lecture notes. He need not use his brains at all.

The word ‘ephemeral’ means

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Everyone likes to throw the blame for sense of defeat on someone else; and for sometime scientists have been a favorite scapegoat. I want to look at their responsibility, and for that matter at everybody’s rather more closely. They do have a special responsibility; do not let us argue that out of existence; but it is a complicated one, and it is not the whole responsibility. For example, science obviously is not responsible for the readiness of people, who do not take their private quarrels beyond the stage of insult, to carry their public quarrels to the point of war. Many animals fight for their needs, and some for their mere greeds to the point of death. Bucks fight for females, and the birds fight for their territories. The fighting habits of man are odd because he displays them only in groups. But they were not supplied by scientists. On the contrary science has helped to end several kinds of group murder, such as witch-hunting and the taboos in the early nineteenth century against disinfecting hospitals.

The first half of the first sentence is

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Everyone likes to throw the blame for sense of defeat on someone else; and for sometime scientists have been a favorite scapegoat. I want to look at their responsibility, and for that matter at everybody’s rather more closely. They do have a special responsibility; do not let us argue that out of existence; but it is a complicated one, and it is not the whole responsibility. For example, science obviously is not responsible for the readiness of people, who do not take their private quarrels beyond the stage of insult, to carry their public quarrels to the point of war. Many animals fight for their needs, and some for their mere greeds to the point of death. Bucks fight for females, and the birds fight for their territories. The fighting habits of man are odd because he displays them only in groups. But they were not supplied by scientists. On the contrary science has helped to end several kinds of group murder, such as witch-hunting and the taboos in the early nineteenth century against disinfecting hospitals.

‘Do not let us argue that out of existence’ means