Free Civil Law MCQs with Answers
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Civil law governs disputes involving private rights, including contracts, property, family relations, torts and compensation. The subject explains breach of duty, civil liability, damages, specific relief, injunctions and other remedies, while distinguishing private claims between individuals from criminal proceedings brought to punish offences against the state.
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- A. Assistant agent
- B. Associate agent
- C. Sub-agent
- D. None of above
Explanation: A sub-agent is appointed by the original agent and works under that agent’s control in the agency business.
Correct answer: Sub-agent- A. Servant
- B. A Labour
- C. An agent
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 183 states that a person of majority age and sound mind may employ an agent.
Correct answer: An agent- A. Employer
- B. Principal
- C. Managing director
- D. None of above
Explanation: The principal is the person for whom an agent performs an act or whom the agent represents.
Correct answer: Principal- A. Pledge by Trust agent
- B. Pledge by mercantile agent
- C. Pledge by international agent
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 178 deals with a mercantile agent’s authority to pledge goods in specified circumstances.
Correct answer: Pledge by mercantile agent- A. 146
- B. 147
- C. 148
- D. All of above
Explanation: Section 148 defines bailment as delivery of goods by one person to another for a specific purpose, with an obligation to return or dispose…
Correct answer: 148- A. A thing which is given as security
- B. A thing which is saled out
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: A pledge is a bailment of goods as security for a debt or performance of a promise, so the security element identifies option a.
Correct answer: A thing which is given as security- A. Pledge
- B. Special bailment
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 172 of the Contract Act defines a pledge as the bailment of goods as security for payment of a debt or performance of a promise.
Correct answer: Pledge- A. 148, of the Contract Act
- B. 149, of the Contract Act
- C. 150, of the Contract Act
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 150 requires the bailor to disclose faults in the goods bailed that materially interfere with their use or expose the bailee to…
Correct answer: 150, of the Contract Act- A. Bailor
- B. Bailee
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: The bailor is the person who delivers goods to another person for a particular purpose under a bailment contract.
Correct answer: Bailor- A. A delivery of a thing entrusted for some special purpose or object upon a contract
- B. Delivery of goods free of cost
- C. Delivery of goods without cost for welfare of public
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 148 describes bailment as delivery of goods by one person to another for a specific purpose, under a contract that the goods will…
Correct answer: A delivery of a thing entrusted for some special purpose or object upon a contract- A. Invalid
- B. Valid
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: Under section 143, a guarantee obtained by the creditor through concealment of material circumstances is invalid because the surety's…
Correct answer: Invalid- A. The creditor
- B. Principal debtor
- C. Without giving any notice to any person
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 130 allows a surety to revoke a continuing guarantee for future transactions by giving notice to the creditor.
Correct answer: The creditor- A. Surety
- B. Principal debtor
- C. Both (a) and (b)
- D. None of above
Explanation: In a contract of guarantee, the person who gives the guarantee is the surety.
Correct answer: Surety- A. Guarantee obtained by free consent
- B. Guarantee obtained by fraud
- C. Guarantee obtained by miscrepresentation
- D. Non of these
Explanation: Section 142 deals with a guarantee obtained through misrepresentation by the creditor or concealment of material circumstances.
Correct answer: Guarantee obtained by miscrepresentation- A. Special guarantee
- B. Continuing guarantee
- C. Specific guarantee
- D. None of above
Explanation: A guarantee covering multiple or successive transactions is called a continuing guarantee under section 129 of the Contract Act.
Correct answer: Continuing guarantee- A. Contracts of minor
- B. Contracts of conditions
- C. Contracts of indemnity
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 124 of the Contract Act, 1872 defines a contract of indemnity as an agreement in which one party promises to save the other from…
Correct answer: Contracts of indemnity- A. Compensation against the breacher
- B. Nothing
- C. Registration of criminal Case against the breacher
- D. None of above
Explanation: Under section 73 of the Contract Act, the injured party may claim compensation for loss or damage naturally arising from the breach.
Correct answer: Compensation against the breacher- A. Like simple contract
- B. In reciprocal manners
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: Reciprocal promises are promises forming the consideration for one another and must be performed according to their reciprocal order or…
Correct answer: In reciprocal manners- A. He is bound to return it
- B. It is his discretion if he return
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 72 requires a person who receives money or property by mistake or under coercion to repay or return it.
Correct answer: He is bound to return it- A. 30
- B. 31
- C. 32
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 32 deals with enforcement of contingent contracts depending on an uncertain event happening.
Correct answer: 32