UGC NET CBSE Paper II Law 2015 December Question Paper

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Q. An agreement without consideration is valid, unless :
– It is in writing and registered
– Is a promise to compensate for something done
– It is made by two minors
– Is a promise to pay a debt barred by limitation law

Q. A proposal is revoked :
– By the notice of revocation of the proposal
– By the lapse of a reasonable time if the time is prescribed in the proposal
– By acceptance of a condition precedent to acceptance
– By the death or insanity of the proposer, if the fact of his death or insanity comes to the knowledge of the acceptor before acceptance

Q. In order to bring an action for tort, the plaintiff has to prove that :
– There has been a legal damage caused to him
– Violation of a legal right not vested in him
– There has been no legal damage caused to him
– Violation of no legal right and has not resulted in harm to him

Q. In which case it was held by the Supreme Court that state was not liable on the ground that police were acting in discharge of statutory powers and power of the police in keeping the property in the police Malkhana was a sovereign power ?
– Ramawati Kaur vs. State Bihar
– Radha Aggarwal vs. State of U.P.
– Kasturi Lal vs. State of U.P.
– State of Bihar vs. Rameshwar Prasad

Q. Match the List – I with List – II and give the correct answer by using the codes given below :

List – II (Name of Case – Law)
(i) Buron vs. Denman
(ii) Hail vs. Brookland and Auto Racing Club
(iii) Metropolitan Asylum Board vs. Hills
(iv) Nicholas vs. Marsland

List – I (Name of defence)
(a) Act of State
(b) Consent
(c) Act of God
(d) Statutory authority

Choose the answer corresponding to the order (a) (b) (c) (d)
– (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
– (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
– (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
– (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)

Q. In which of the following cases, is the occupier of a house liable for ‘negligence’ ?
– Keeping a dog, which may bite trespassers
– Fixing broken glass pieces on the top of a wall to prevent trespassers
– Setting spring guns in the premises to prevent trespassers
– Constructing a compound wall to prevent trespassers

Q. Read Assertion (A) Reason (R) and give the correct answer with the help of codes given below :
Assertion (A) : Mental element is an essential element in most of the torts.
Reason (R) : State of mind of the defendant is not relevant to ascertain his liability in all branches of law of torts.
– Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
– Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
– Both (A) and (R) are true
– Both (A) and (R) are wrong

Q. Which one of the following is not an exception to the rule of volenti non fit injuria ?
– Surgeon amputates a limb of a patient to save his life
– Injury is caused while play-fighting with naked swords at a religion function
– Injury is caused while doing lawful acts under contract
– Injury is caused to a player in football match

Q. Which of the facts do not include within the principle of joint liability ?
– The actuated act need not be a crime or when it was foisted.
– An act done in a pre-arranged plan between more than one person.
– Mere participation in some manner in the act constituting the offence.
– An act done in furtherance of an intention to cause harm

Q. ‘Imposing punishment implies that some one should be legally authorised to impose it upon the offender’. In which of the following cases a private person can impose such punishment ?
– Where the law recognises moral blame worthiness.
– Where there is justification for punishing any person provided the offender had broken a law.
– Where one can establish the connection between punishment and crime.
– Where the act falls within a retroactive penal legislation.

Q. The Apex court has shown as to how compromise is not a free choice of the rape survivor but a hidden secret of law where justice is reduced to a bargain between the victim’s kin, state authorities and the accused. Identify the case law :
– Ravindra vs. State of M.P.
– Shreya Singhal vs. Union of India
– Sanskar Marathe vs. State of Maharashtra
– Khursheed Ahmed Khan vs. State of U.P.

Q. There is a specific provision that the intention to screen the offender must be primary and the role object of the accused. This provision is provided in __________.
– Section 202
– Section 201
– Section 199
– Section 203

Q. Which of the following offences fall under causing hurt as well as assault ?
– Digging a pit in the public path
– Flinging boiling water over a person
– Mixing deleterious poison in a liquid and placing the same on another table
– Pulling hair of a woman

Q. There must be dishonest intention which should co-exist while taking a thing for an offence of theft. In which of the following situations it will not amount to theft ?
– Taking a stick from the person to beat him
– Taking a sugar packet from another person in good faith while his own packet was at the shop
– A senior student snatching some books from a junior student with promise to return on the next day
– Not finding the helmet hanged on a bike, a person takes away a similar helmet from the adjacent bike, but afterwords repenting on his fault returns the same to the owner

Q. The Constitution of Works Committee under the Industrial Disputes Act is to :
– Remove causes of friction between the employer and workmen in the day to day waking of the establishment
– Remove causes of friction between the employer and workmen relating to wage settlement
– Remove causes of fiction between the employer and workmen relating to standing orders
– Remove causes of friction between the employer and workmen relating to implementation of award

Q. Under the Industrial Disputes Act, a reference to an Industrial tribunal will be :
– Only where both the parties to an Industrial Dispute apply for such reference
– Only where the appropriate government considers it expedient to do so
– Only where both the parties to an Industrial Dispute apply for such reference and also where the appropriate government considers it expedient to do so
– Only where the affected party to the dispute apply for such reference

Q. To which settlement machinery can the central government refer the dispute under Rule 81-A ?
– Conciliation
– Arbitration
– Adjudication
– Supreme Court

Q. A settlement under the Industrial Disputes Act arrived at in the course of conciliation proceding, between the employer and a recognised majority union will be binding on :
– parties to the settlement
– all workmen of the establishment
– all workmen of a recognised majority union
– all workmen of a registered Trade Union

Q. The permission applied for by the government shall be deemed to have been granted if the appropriate government does not communicate the order under I.D. Act, granting or refusing to grant permission within a period of :
– 15 days
– 30 days
– 60 days
– 90 days

Q. The right to strike may be controlled or restricted by appropriate industrial legislation and the validity of such legislation would have to be tested not with reference to the criteria laid down in clause 4 of Article 19 but by totally different considerations, was observed by the Supreme Court in :
– Syndicate Bank vs. Umesh Nayak
– All India Bank Employees Association vs. I.T.
– Management of Churakulam Tea Estate (P) Ltd vs. The workmen and another
– Ramnagar cane and sugar Co. vs. Jatin Chalin

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This is the UGC NET Question Paper II from the exam conducted by CBSE in December 2015.
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