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1. What kind of a right is a patent?

A. Limited period right B. Territorial right
C. Absolute right D. Both (A) and (B)
2. How long does a copyright last for in India?
A. 10 years after the creation of the work B. 50 years after the creation of the work
C. 10 years after the death of the person who created that D. 60 years after the death of the person who created that
work work
3. What does “quo” stand for in ‘quid-pro-quo’?
A. The knowledge disclosed to the public. B. The monopoly granted for the term of the patent.
C. The exclusive privilege of making, selling and using
D. None of the above.
the invention.
4. Who among the following was the chairperson of the Provincial Constitution Committee of the Constituent
Assembly?
A. Jawaharlal Nehru B. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
C. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar D. J.B. Kripalani
5. Which amendment of the constitution added Administrative Tribunals?
A. 42nd amendment act B. 44th amendment act
C. 46th amendment act D. 49th amendment act
6. Contempt of Court means
A. Both Civil Contempt and Criminal Contempt B. Only Civil Contempt
C. Only Criminal Contempt D. None of the above
7. A woman in India on whom the rape is committed is called
A. Prosecutrix B. Prostitution
C. Fallen D. Prosecutor
8. What is an act which is perfectly legal but can be rescinded?
A. Void Contract B. Voidable Contract
C. Vis Major D. Volenti non fit injuria
9. What is defined as a security for repayment of a loan?
A. Pledge B. Mortgage
C. Lease D. None of the above
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10. The Law of Contract allows parties to freely

A. Make law for themselves B. Enforce Contracts
C. None of the above D. Both A. and B.
11. Which are the words, which appear innocent, but have a latent defamatory meaning
A. Libel B. Slander
C. Innuendo D. None of the above
12. The act of unlawfully entering into another’s property constitutes
A. Trespass B. Restraint
C. Appropriation D. Encroachment
13. What is the legal meaning of the word ‘Battery’?
A. Cells as used in torch, tape recorder etc. B. Battering a person to death.
C. Actual or intended striking of another person. D. Assault resulting in, at least, 6 months hospitalization.
14. Which High Court exercised jurisdiction over Delhi, prior to the establishment of the High Court of Delhi ?

A. High Court Punjab B. High Court of Allahabad

C. High Court of Himachal Pradesh D. High Court of Odisha
15. Which of the following enactments is proposed to ensure your supply of at least minimum quantity of food grains to
families living Below Poverty Line in India ?

A. Food Safety Enhancement Act, 2000 B. Food Safety and Standard Act, 2006
C. Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1968 D. National Food Security Act, 2013
16. The legal branch of the Indian Army is known as ?

A. Army Legal Corps B. Judge Advocate General branch

C. Court Martial branch D. Armed Forces Legal Corps
17. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act was enacted to give effect to ?

A. Article 14 of the Constitution of India B. Article 45 of the Constitution of India

C. Article 21A of the Constitution of India D. Article 21 of the Constitution of India
18. F.I.R. stands for First Information Report. As per the High Court of Delhi, if at the time of registration of F.I.R. by
the Police, it appears that crime was committed outside the jurisdiction of that Police Station, the Police after
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registration of such F.I.R. should transfer the F.I.R. to the Police Station having jurisdiction. Such F.I.R. made at the
first instance has been termed as ?

A. Preliminary F.I.R. B. Zero F.I.R.

C. Daily Diary (D .D .) Number D. Investigatory F.I.R.
19. Which of the following does not hold his office at the pleasure of the President ?

A. Chairman of the Union Public Service

B. Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Commission(UPSC)
C. Attorney General of India D. Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)
20. National Law Day is observed every year on ?

A. April 30 B. March 1
C. June 16 D. November 26
21. Which of the following is not included in Intellectual Property Law?
A. Copyright Act, 1957 B. Trademark Act, 1999
C. Patent Act, 1970 D. Customs Act, 1962
22. Symbol of Maharaja of Air India is
A. Copyright B. Patent
C. Trademark D. All of the above
23. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

List-I - List-ll

(Provisions) - (Acts)

A) Designation of the Governor-General of Bengal as the Governor-General of India and his Government as the
Government of India - 1) Charter Act of 1833

B) Dyarchy introduced in Indian Government - 2) Government of India Act, 1858

C) Twin features of All-India Federation and Provincial Autonomy - 3) Government of India Act, 1919

D) Control of the Government of India transferred from East India Company to the British Crown - 4) Government
of India Act, 1935
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A. 1 4 3 2 B. 2 3 4 1
C. 1 3 4 2 D. 2 4 3 1
24. Match the following:

A) Theft - 1) A matrimonial remedy

B) Divorce - 2) A civil wrong

C) Defamation - 3) A civil remedy

D) Injunction - 4) An offence under Indian Penal Code

A. A-(1), B-(2), C-(3), D-(4) B. A-(4), B-(2), C-(1), D-(3)
C. A-(4), B-(1), C-(2), D-(3) D. A-(3), B-(1), C-(4), D-(2)
25. What does the 'Polluters Pays' principle mean ?

A. Absolute liability to compensate the victims of B. Absolute liability to the cost of reversing the damaged
pollution ecology
D. Both a & b, provided that the polluter was negligent
C. Both a & b
and did not take reasonable care
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Solutions
1. C
Sol. Patent is an exclusive right granted by a government for an invention that is new, involves an
inventive step and is capable of industrial application. Section 2(1)(m) of the Indian Patent Act,
1970 defines a patent as "patent" means a patent for any invention granted under this Act.
2. D
Sol. India is a signatory to Berne Convention as well as the Universal Copyright Convention and
works protected in other Berne signatory countries will automatically be protected in India
without the need for registration. Generally, the term of copyright protection is the life of the
author plus 60 years from the beginning of the calendar year following the year in which the
author dies.
3. B
Sol. quid pro quo indicates that an item or a service has been traded in return for something of
value, usually when the propriety or equity of the transaction is in question. A contract must
involve consideration: that is, the exchange of something of value for something else of value.
In IPR it is the Monopoly granted for the term of the patent.
4. B
Sol. The constituent assembly appointed a number of committees to deal with different tasks of constitution. Sardar
Vallabhbhai Patel was the chairperson of the Provincial Constitution Committee.

5. A
Sol. Constitution (42nd) Amendment added a new part XIVA to the Constitution for Tribunals: Administrative Tribunals
(Art 323A) and Tribunals for other purpose (Art 323B).

6. A
Sol. Contempt of court can take place either "directly" or "indirectly." Examples include improperly communicating with
jurors outside the court, refusing to turn over subpoenaed evidence and refusing to pay court ordered child support.
These are both civil and criminal in their respective natures.

7. A
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Sol. A woman who brings a charge against someone in a court of law is known as prosecutrix.

8. B
Sol. When a contract is entered into without the free consent of the party, it is considered a voidable contract. The
definition of the act states that a voidable contract is enforceable by law at the option of one or more parties but not
at option of the other parties.

9. B
Sol. A mortgage is the transfer of an interest in specific immovable property for the purpose of securing the payment of
money advanced or to be advanced by way of loan, an existing or future debt, or the performance of repayment of a
loan.

10. B
Sol. Freedom of contract is the ability. of adults and groups such as corporations and other legal entities to freely decide
whether to enter into an enforceable agreement and to determine the rights and obligations of their bargain.

11. C
Sol. Innuendo can be defined as a legal concept that is related to tort and person injury law. It is used in a lawsuit to
describe defamation from libel or slander. It usually signifies that the plaintiff had bad comments made about him
and that the comments were in fact defamatory.

12. A
Sol. The tort of trespass can be defined as an unjustifiable physical interference of land in possession of one party by
another. But it defines trespass as unjustifiable physical interference with the possession of property of the claimant
with requisite intention of doing so.

13. C
Sol. Civil Battery is also known as the battery as a tort because it is a civil wrong. When a person has no intention to hurt
someone but commits an act which hurts another person and the wrongdoer had an idea that the act will hurt another
person is known as a civil battery.

14. A
Sol. • The High Court of Delhi was established on 31 October 1966. The High Court of Delhi was
established with four judges. They were Chief Justice K. S. Hegde, Justice I. D. Dua, Justice
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H. R. Khanna and Justice S. K. Kapur.Presently, the High Court has a sanctioned strength of
45 permanent judges and 15 additional judges.

• On 21 March 1919, the High Court of Judicature at Lahore was established with jurisdiction
over the provinces of Punjab and Delhi. This jurisdiction lasted until 1947 when India was
partitioned.

• The High Courts (Punjab) Order, 1947 established a new High Court for the province of East
Punjab with effect from 15 August 1947. The India (Adaptation of Existing Indian Laws) Order,
1947 provided that any reference in an existing Indian law to the High Court of Judicature at
Lahore be replaced by a reference to the High Court of East Punjab.

15. D
Sol. • The National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA 2013) converts into legal entitlements for
existing food security programmes of the Government of India. It includes the Midday Meal
Scheme, Integrated Child Development Services scheme and the Public Distribution System.

• Further, the NFSA 2013 recognizes maternity entitlements. The Midday Meal Scheme and
the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme are universal in nature whereas the PDS
will reach about two-thirds of the population (75% in rural areas and 50% in urban areas).

16. B
Sol. • The Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Department is the legal branch of the Indian Army. It
deals with military related disciplinary cases and litigation and assists in providing legal
assistance to the army in human rights matters and the rule of law among other things.

• The department consists of legally qualified Army officers who are educated in military law
and provide legal help to the military in all aspects. The department supports the Judge
Advocate General who is the legal and judicial chief of India and advises the Chief of the Army
Staff of legal matters.
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• The JAG's Department is also responsible for emerging fields of military law such as those
related to cyber laws, space laws, terrorism and human rights violations. The service rendered
in the JAG's Department are considered to be Judicial service as per the regulations for the
Indian Army.

17. C
Sol. • The Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002 inserted Article 21-A in the Constitution
of India to provide free and compulsory education of all children in the age group of six to
fourteen years as a Fundamental Right in such a manner as the State may, by law, determine.

• The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, which represents
the consequential legislation envisaged under Article 21-A, means that every child has a right
to full time elementary education of satisfactory and equitable quality in a formal school which
satisfies certain essential norms and standards.

• Article 21-A and the RTE Act came into effect on 1 April 2010. The title of the RTE Act
incorporates the words ‘free and compulsory’.

• ‘Free education’ means that no child, other than a child who has been admitted by his or her
parents to a school which is not supported by the appropriate Government, shall be liable to
pay any kind of fee or charges or expenses which may prevent him or her from pursuing and
completing elementary education.

18. B
Sol. • An FIR that can be filed at any police station irrespective of the place of crime and area of
jurisdiction is referred to as a Zero FIR. The FIR that is registered at the police station
regardless of place of incidence or jurisdiction will later be transferred to the police station that
has competent jurisdiction upon conducting preliminary investigation.
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• The notion of Zero FIR is to institute a jurisdiction free FIR. It was introduced by the
recommendation of the Justice Verma Committee in the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013
after the ghastly Delhi rape case.

• The Amendment was passed by the Lok Sabha on 19 March, 2013 and by the Rajya Sabha
on 21 March, 2013 and received the President’s assent on 2 April, 2013 and is deemed to
have come into force from the 3rd day of February, 2013.The 2012 Rape case led to several
legal consequences through the Criminal Law Amendment, one of which was the concept of
Zero FIR.

19. B
Sol. • The Speaker of the Lok Sabha is the presiding officer of the Lok Sabha (House of the
People), the lower house of the Parliament of India.

• The speaker is elected generally in the first meeting of the Lok Sabha following general
elections. Serving for a term of five years, the speaker chosen from sitting members of the Lok
Sabha (House of the People), and is by convention a member of the ruling party or alliance.

• The Speaker of the Lok Sabha conducts the business in house, and decides whether a bill is
a money bill or not. They maintain discipline and decorum in the house and can punish a
member for unruly behaviour by suspending them.

• They also permit the moving of various kinds of motions and resolutions such as a motion of
no confidence, motion of adjournment, motion of censure and calling attention notice as per
the rules.

• The Speaker decides on the agenda to be taken up for discussion during the meeting. The
date of election of the Speaker is fixed by the President.

20. D
Sol. • Constitution Day (National Law Day), also known as Samvidhan Divas, is celebrated in India
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on 26 November every year to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution of India. On 26

November 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted the Constitution of India, and it
came into effect on 26 January 1950.

• The Government of India declared 26 November as Constitution Day on 19 November 2015

by a gazette notification. The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi made the declaration on
11 October 2015 while laying the foundation stone of the B. R. Ambedkar's Statue of Equality
memorial in Mumbai.

• The year of 2015 was the 125th birth anniversary of Ambedkar, who had chaired the drafting
committee of the Constituent Assembly and played a pivotal role in the drafting of the
constitution. Previously this day was celebrated as Law Day.

21. D
Sol. Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for
controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal, and hazardous items,
into and out of a country. Traditionally, customs has been considered as the fiscal subject that
charges customs duties (i.e. tariffs) and other taxes on import and export.
22. C
Sol. A trademark is a unique symbol or word(s) used to represent a business or its products. Once registered, that same
symbol or series of words cannot be used by any other organization, forever, as long as it remains in use and proper
paperwork and fees are paid.

23. C
Sol. • The Saint Helena Act 1833 or the Government of India Act 1833 is an Act of the Parliament
of the United Kingdom.

• As this Act was also intended to provide for an extension of the royal charter granted to the
East India Company, it is also called the Charter Act of 1833. This Act extended the charter by
20 years. It contained the following provisions:
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• It redesignated the Governor-General of Bengal as the Governor-General of India. Under this

provision Lord William Bentinck became the first Governor-General of India in the last of 1833.

• It deprived the Governors of Bombay and Madras of their legislative powers. For the first
time, the Governor-General's Government was known as the 'Government of India' and his
council as the 'India Council'. The Governor-General and his executive council were given
exclusive legislative powers for the whole of British India.

• The Government of India Act 1858 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
passed on 2 August 1858. Its provisions called for the liquidation of the British East India
Company and the transference of its functions to the British Crown. Lord Palmerston, then-
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, introduced a bill for the transfer of control of the
Government of India from the East India Company to the Crown, referring to the grave defects
in the existing system of the government of India.

• The Government of India Act 1919 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It
was passed to expand participation of Indians in the government of India. The Act provided a
dual form of government (a "diarchy") for the major provinces. In each such province, control
of some areas of government, the "transferred list", were given to a Government of ministers
answerable to the Provincial Council.

• The Government of India Act 1935 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It
originally received Royal assent in August 1935. It was the longest Act of (British) Parliament
ever enacted until Greater London Authority Act 1999 surpassed it.

The most significant aspects of the Act were:

• the grant of a large measure of autonomy to the provinces of British India (ending the system
of diarchy after the introduced by the Government of India Act 1919)

• provision for the establishment of a "Federation of India", to be made up of both British India
and some or all of the "princely states"
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• the introduction of direct elections, thus increasing the franchise from seven million to thirty-
five million people.

24. C
Sol. • IPC Section 378 defines the offence of theft. It says that whoever, with the intention of taking
dishonestly any movable property out of the possession of any person without the consent of
that person, moves that property in order to such taking, is said to commit theft.

• There are five explanations attached to this section the first of which states that as long as a
thing is attached to the earth, it is not a movable property and is, therefore, not the subject of
theft; but as soon as it is severed from the earth, it becomes capable of being the subject of
theft.

• An injunction is a legal remedy imposed by a court. In simple terms, an injunction means that
one of the parties to a certain action must either do something or refrain from doing
something. There are three types of injunctions: preliminary injunction, temporary restraining
order, and a permanent injunction.

25. C
Sol. • The ‘polluter pays’ principle is the commonly accepted practice that those who produce
pollution should bear the costs of managing it to prevent damage to human health or the
environment. For instance, a factory that produces a potentially poisonous substance as a by-
products of its activities are usually held responsible for its safe disposal.

• The polluter pays principle is part of a set of broader principles to guide sustainable
development worldwide (formally known as the 1992 Rio Declaration).

• This principle underpins most of the regulation of pollution affecting land, water and air.
Pollution is defined in UK law as contamination of the land, water or air by harmful or
potentially harmful substances.
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