All Free Law and Constitution MCQs with Answers

Every Law and Constitution question in the bank, across all chapters, each with the correct answer and a written explanation. Free and unlimited, with no account needed.

2,940 questions · page 1 of 147

  • A. Proof beyond reasonable doubt
  • B. Balance of probabilities
  • C. Proof beyond any doubt
  • D. Proof by direct evidence

Explanation: A civil claim is generally decided on the balance of probabilities, meaning the court accepts the version that is more likely than not.

Correct answer: Balance of probabilities
  • A. Punish the defaulting party
  • B. Put the claimant in the position of performance
  • C. Transfer the defendant's property
  • D. Declare the contract criminal

Explanation: Contract damages normally aim to place the injured party in the position they would have occupied if the contract had been performed.

Correct answer: Put the claimant in the position of performance
  • A. Duty, breach, causation and damage
  • B. Offer, acceptance, price and delivery
  • C. Motive, intention, arrest and trial
  • D. Ownership, possession, title and registration

Explanation: Negligence generally requires a legal duty, a breach of that duty, a causal connection between the breach and the harm, and legally…

Correct answer: Duty, breach, causation and damage
  • A. It orders performance of the contractual promise
  • B. It automatically imprisons the contract-breaker
  • C. It cancels every related contract
  • D. It awards damages without examining performance

Explanation: Specific performance is a remedy in which the court directs a party to perform the obligation promised, subject to legal conditions and…

Correct answer: It orders performance of the contractual promise
  • A. Refrain from a specified act
  • B. Transfer ownership immediately
  • C. Pay criminal compensation
  • D. Give evidence against a witness

Explanation: A prohibitory injunction restrains a party from doing a particular act, such as trespassing or disposing of disputed property.

Correct answer: Refrain from a specified act
  • A. Was finally decided between the same parties
  • B. Has never been raised by either party
  • C. Concerns a disputed question of fact
  • D. Involves a claim for monetary relief

Explanation: Res judicata prevents the re-litigation of an issue directly and substantially in issue in an earlier suit between the same parties when…

Correct answer: Was finally decided between the same parties
  • A. Civil liability mainly protects private rights
  • B. Civil liability always results in imprisonment
  • C. Criminal liability concerns only written contracts
  • D. Criminal liability cannot arise from physical harm

Explanation: Civil liability usually concerns compensation or enforcement of private rights between persons.

Correct answer: Civil liability mainly protects private rights
  • A. Too unusual to be anticipated
  • B. Sufficiently connected to the breach
  • C. Always equal to the claim amount
  • D. Automatically imposed as punishment

Explanation: The remoteness rule limits damages to loss that has a sufficient legal connection with the wrongful act and was reasonably foreseeable or…

Correct answer: Sufficiently connected to the breach
  • A. Only a party may enforce contractual rights
  • B. Every stranger may enforce a contract
  • C. A contract needs no consideration
  • D. A tort claim replaces every contract claim

Explanation: Privity generally means that contractual rights and obligations operate between the parties to the contract, so a stranger normally cannot…

Correct answer: Only a party may enforce contractual rights
  • A. Specific Relief Act, 1877
  • B. Pakistan Penal Code, 1860
  • C. Qanun-e-Shahadat Order, 1984
  • D. Registration Act, 1908

Explanation: The Specific Relief Act, 1877 deals with remedies such as specific performance, injunctions, and other forms of specific relief in…

Correct answer: Specific Relief Act, 1877
  • A. Rights of a civil nature, unless barred by law
  • B. Only claims involving government property
  • C. Only disputes carrying a criminal penalty
  • D. Only matters expressly assigned to tribunals

Explanation: Section 9 gives civil courts jurisdiction over suits of a civil nature unless their cognizance is expressly or impliedly barred.

Correct answer: Rights of a civil nature, unless barred by law
  • A. Denies every allegation in the plaint
  • B. Asserts that the fact exists
  • C. Files the first application in court
  • D. Appears as a witness for the defence

Explanation: The general rule is that the party who asserts a fact must prove it. A mere denial does not normally shift the initial burden unless the…

Correct answer: Asserts that the fact exists
  • A. During the course of employment
  • B. After the employee resigns from service
  • C. For a purely personal purpose outside work
  • D. Without any connection to assigned duties

Explanation: Vicarious liability commonly arises when an employee commits a wrongful act in the course of employment.

Correct answer: During the course of employment
  • A. Threatening contact without physical contact
  • B. Intentionally applying unlawful physical force
  • C. Carelessly damaging another person's property
  • D. Publishing a false statement about another person

Explanation: Battery involves intentional and unlawful physical contact or force applied to another person without lawful justification.

Correct answer: Intentionally applying unlawful physical force
  • A. Enforceable at the option of one party
  • B. Invalid for every legal purpose from formation
  • C. Enforceable only by a criminal court
  • D. Automatically converted into a property transfer

Explanation: A voidable contract remains effective unless the entitled party chooses to rescind it.

Correct answer: Enforceable at the option of one party
  • A. Work or services already provided
  • B. A penalty imposed for a criminal offence
  • C. A future benefit never supplied
  • D. Property acquired by adverse possession

Explanation: Quantum meruit means payment for the value of work or services performed.

Correct answer: Work or services already provided
  • A. Pay a fine to the state
  • B. Perform a specific act or undo a wrongful act
  • C. Remain silent during the entire trial
  • D. Transfer every asset to the claimant

Explanation: A mandatory injunction directs a party to do a particular act, such as removing an obstruction or restoring a position.

Correct answer: Perform a specific act or undo a wrongful act
  • A. Declare an existing legal character or right
  • B. Impose imprisonment for past conduct
  • C. Award a criminal sentence to the defendant
  • D. Transfer all disputed property automatically

Explanation: A declaratory decree formally determines the legal status or right of a party.

Correct answer: Declare an existing legal character or right
  • A. Creates a fresh limitation period from acknowledgment
  • B. Removes the debt from civil jurisdiction
  • C. Makes the debt immediately criminal
  • D. Prevents any later civil remedy

Explanation: A qualifying written and signed acknowledgment made before expiry generally starts a fresh limitation period.

Correct answer: Creates a fresh limitation period from acknowledgment
  • A. A formal adjudication conclusively determining rights
  • B. A lawyer's private opinion on the dispute
  • C. A witness's statement recorded in court
  • D. A police report recommending prosecution

Explanation: A decree is the formal expression of an adjudication that conclusively determines the rights of parties regarding matters in controversy.

Correct answer: A formal adjudication conclusively determining rights