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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. 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. Parties to the suit
- C. Documentation
- 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. Clerical or arithmetical error
- B. Factual error
- C. Conceptual error
- D. None of the these
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. Delegated powers
- C. Inherent 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. Application of restitution
- B. Filing of new suit
- C. Both A and B
- 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. Shall be in writing
- B. Shall be oral
- C. Both (a) and (b)
- D. None of the these
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. Police Officers
- B. Politicians
- C. Judge, Magistrate, Judicial 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. Discretionary
- C. None of the above
- 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. 115,
- C. 115-A,
- D. None of the these
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. Vast
- B. Broad
- C. Limited
- 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. Section 114, C.P.C
- C. None of the above
- D. None of the these
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. Section 109, C.P.C
- D. None of the these
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. Finality
- B. End
- C. Continuation
- 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. Appealable
- B. Revisionable
- 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. High Court
- B. Federal Shariat Court
- C. Supreme 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. 2nd appeal
- C. 3rd appeal
- D. None of the these
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