LLB 3 Years Sem 1 Legal Language Dec 2012 Question Paper - Mumbai University | munotes

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1. Q1 Answer each of the following in one or two sentences:- 20 marks
   • (1) Richard lost the money. (Convert into passive voice)
   • (2) Let the books be taken. (Convert into active voice)
   • (3) Brutus had love for Caesar. (Change into Negative Sentence)
   • (4) Rana Pratap was one of the greatest kings. (Change the degree of comparison)
   • (5) He mortgaged his sisters house. (Change into a Complex Sentence)
   • (6) Alas! The beloved leader has departed. (Convert into assertive sentence)
   • (7) none could compare with him they say all felt to be the greatest or most fortunate of men ( Punctuate the sentence)
   • (8) State any two features of the magazine Collective”
   • (9) Give the full forms of the following
   • (10) Explain the Citation:
2. Q2 Write short notes on any four of the following:- 20 marks
   • (2) Res Locquitor
   • (3) Respondent Superior
   • (4) Explain the meaning of (i) Custom (ii) Person
   • (5) State and explain any two kinds of writs
   • (6) Describe the search of a case law in whether a master is vicariously liable for civil wrong
3. Q3 Answer any two of the following:- (Each question carries 6 marks) Answer the following questions with reference to the Legislative Extract given below THE MATERNITY BENEFIT ACT, 1961 (ACT NO. 53 of 1961) An Act to regulate the employment of women in certain establishments for certain periods before and after child-birth and to provide for maternity benefit and certain other benefits BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twelfth Year of the Republic of India as follows: 12 marks
   • (1) Short Title, Extent and Commencement This Act may be called the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 It extends to the whole of India ‘it shail come into’ force on such date as may be notified in this behalf in the Official Gazette: in relation to mines and to any other establishment wherein such persons are employed for the exhibition of equestrians, acrobatics and other performance, by the Central Government in relation to other establishment in a State, by the State Government Identify the following:
   • (i) Short Title (ii) Enacting Formula
   • (iii) Long Title (iv) Date of Assent
   • (B) THE MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY ACT, 1971 (ACT NO. 34 of 1971) An Act to provide for the termination of certain pregnancies by registered medical practitioners and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto BE it enacted by the Parliament in the Twenty-Second Year of the Republic of India as follows:
   • (1) Short Title, Extent and Commencement This Act may be called The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 It extends to the whole of India except to the State of Jammu and Kashmir It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, Identify the following:
   • (i) Official Citation (ii) Marginal Notes
   • (iii) Date of Assent (iv) Extent
   • (C) THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACT, 1993 (ACT NO. 10 of 1994) An Act to provide for the Constitution of a National Human Rights Commission, State Human Rights Commission in States and Human Rights Courts for better protection of Human Rights and for matters connected therewith or incidental BE it enacted by the Parliament in the Forty-Fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:
   • (1) Short Title, Extent and Commencement This Act may be called The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 It extends to the whole of India provided that it shall apply to the State of Jammu and kashmir only in so far as it pertains to the matters relatable to any of the entries enumerated in List | or List Il in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution as applicable to that State It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 28th day of September, 1993 Identify the following:
   • (iii) Short Title (iv) Long Title
4. Q4 Answer all the following:- 48 marks
   • (A) Write an Essay on any one of the following:
   • (B) Briefly outline the facts, issues and verdict in the Oleum Gas Leak Case (M.C.Mehta v/s Union of India & others) How do the guidelines given by the Supreme Court in Vishakha v/s State of Rajasthan ensure a safe and healthy environment for women at workplace?
   • (C) Define a Law Report. Write briefly on any two of the following:
   • (i) Company Cases
   • (iii) All India Reporter
   • (D) Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: Adoption means taking the child of another person as one’s own child and treating the child for all intents and purposes as one’s natural and sociological child. In India adoption as a legal institution exists only among Hindus. This rule is due to the institution primogenitor. Adoption provides families for children who otherwise would remain parentless and permanently deprived of the physical and psychological benefits of family life. Adoption also provides an opportunity to adults to become parents, to care for achild and thus experience growth as a family. Thus, adoption is described as a way of conferring the privileges of parents upon the childless and the advantages of having parents upon the parentless These days adoption is being increasingly used for several other objectives such as conferring status of legitimacy or illegitimate children, of providing homes for homeless children, and for providing richer family life in European countries Under modern law, the institution of adoption is used more and more for the benefit and welfare of the child. Blessed is the family that has a child to frisk and frolic and to develop as a full human with human values
   • (i) What is adoption?
   • (ii) What does adoption provide children?
   • (iii) What opportunity does adoption provide to adults?
   • (iv) State the objectives for which adoption is being used

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