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- A. Plaintiffs
- B. Respondents
- C. Defendants
- D. None of the these
Explanation: Persons against whom a right to relief is claimed are joined as defendants under the rules on joinder of parties.
Correct answer: Defendants- A. Their right to relief is same
- B. They are close relative
- C. They belong to same group
- D. None of the these
Explanation: Plaintiffs may be joined when a right to relief arising from the same act, transaction, or series of transactions is alleged in their…
Correct answer: Their right to relief is same- A. Plaintiff or plaintiffs
- B. Defendant or defendants
- C. Third persons
- D. None of the these
Explanation: The defendant is the person against whom the plaintiff brings the claim and who must reply or answer it.
Correct answer: Defendant or defendants- A. Litigation
- B. Documentation
- C. Parties to the suit
- D. None of the these
Explanation: Order I of the Code of Civil Procedure governs the parties to a suit, including their joinder, misjoinder and representative proceedings.
Correct answer: Parties to the suit- A. None of the these
- B. Factual error
- C. Conceptual error
- D. Clerical or arithmetical error
Explanation: Section 152 permits correction of clerical or arithmetical mistakes, or accidental slips and omissions, in a decree, judgment or order.
Correct answer: Clerical or arithmetical error- A. Natural powers
- B. Inherent powers
- C. Delegated powers
- D. None of the these
Explanation: Section 151 preserves the court’s inherent powers, allowing it to make orders necessary for the ends of justice or to prevent abuse of…
Correct answer: Inherent powers- A. Both A and B
- B. Filing of new suit
- C. Application of restitution
- D. None of the these
Explanation: Section 144 deals with restitution, restoring a party to the position it would have occupied if a decree or order later varied or reversed…
Correct answer: Application of restitution- A. None of the these
- B. Shall be oral
- C. Both (a) and (b)
- D. Shall be in writing
Explanation: Section 142 requires orders and notices served on or given to a person under the Code to be in writing.
Correct answer: Shall be in writing- A. Judge, Magistrate, Judicial Officers
- B. Politicians
- C. Police Officers
- D. None of the these
Explanation: Section 135 protects judges, magistrates and judicial officers from arrest under civil process while going to, presiding in, or returning…
Correct answer: Judge, Magistrate, Judicial Officers- A. Substantive
- B. None of the above
- C. Discretionary
- D. None of the these
Explanation: Revisional jurisdiction is discretionary rather than a right of appeal: the court intervenes only when the statutory conditions for…
Correct answer: Discretionary- A. 114,
- B. None of the these
- C. 115-A,
- D. 115,
Explanation: Section 115 of the CPC provides for revision, allowing the superior court to examine jurisdictional errors by a subordinate court where…
Correct answer: 115,- A. Limited
- B. Broad
- C. Vast
- D. None of the these
Explanation: Review is a restricted power exercised only on recognised grounds such as discovery of new evidence, an error apparent on the record, or…
Correct answer: Limited- A. Of Session
- B. Which passed the decree
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of the these
Explanation: A review petition must be filed before the same court that passed the decree or order, because review asks that court to reconsider its…
Correct answer: Which passed the decree- A. Section 113, C.P.C
- B. None of the these
- C. None of the above
- D. Section 114, C.P.C
Explanation: Section 114 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides the substantive power of review, while Order XLVII sets out the procedure and grounds…
Correct answer: Section 114, C.P.C- A. Section 107, C.P.C.
- B. Section 108, C.P.C
- C. None of the these
- D. Section 109, C.P.C
Explanation: Section 109 CPC governs appeals from the High Court to the Supreme Court, subject to the constitutional and statutory requirements for…
Correct answer: Section 109, C.P.C- A. Continuation
- B. End
- C. Finality
- D. None of the these
Explanation: An appeal is treated as a continuation of the original suit because the appellate court examines the correctness of the decision in the…
Correct answer: Continuation- A. Revisionable
- B. Appealable
- C. Reviewable
- D. None of the these
Explanation: An order imposing compensatory costs under section 35-A is expressly appealable under section 104 CPC.
Correct answer: Appealable- A. Supreme Court
- B. Federal Shariat Court
- C. High Court
- D. None of the theseConsult Local Attorneys
Explanation: Sections 100 to 102 CPC regulate second appeals to the High Court, including the requirement of a substantial question of law.
Correct answer: High Court- A. First appeal
- B. None of the these
- C. 3rd appeal
- D. 2nd appeal
Explanation: Sections 100 to 102 concern second appeals, which generally lie to the High Court only when a substantial question of law is involved.
Correct answer: 2nd appeal- A. Pecuniary value of a suit
- B. Trial Court
- C. Nature of case
- D. None of the these
Explanation: The pecuniary value of the suit ordinarily determines whether the first appeal lies to the District Court or the High Court.
Correct answer: Pecuniary value of a suit