LL.B. (Five Years) Sem 8 Jurisprudence and Legal Theory Nov 2013 Question Paper - Mumbai University | munotes

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• N.B: (1) Answer all questions.

SECTION I - Q.1: Answer all ten questions in one or two sentences (20 Marks - 2 marks each)

1. Q1 What is Pure theory of law?
2. Q2 What is distributive justice?
3. Q3 What is a question of fact?
4. Q4 What is moral right?
5. Q5 State the Bracket theory of corporate personality.
6. Q6 Define title.
7. Q7 State any two possessory remedies.
8. Q8 What is Codification?
9. Q9 What do you understand by 'person of inherence'?
10. Q10 What is a general custom? Give an example.

SECTION II - Q.2: Write short notes on any four (20 Marks - 5 marks each)

1. Q11 Jurisprudence
2. Q12 Functions of Law
3. Q13 Right and No-right
4. Q14 Ratio and Obiter
5. Q15 Ownership
6. Q16 Trusts.

SECTION III - Q.3: Answer any two (12 Marks - 6 marks each)

1. Q17 Mohan is 16 years old. He represented himself as an adult and mortgaged his property. He seeks now to avoid the mortgage. (i) Will Mohan succeed? Explain. (ii) Disucss the status of a Minor under Indian Law.
2. Q18 'X' was the President of India during 1962-67. In 1966 he visited Thailand as the head of India and participated in the State function at its capital city. 'X' was gifted a 100 kg. silver elephant which he brought to India. (i) After his term can X take home the silver elephant? Explain. (ii) Bringout the distinction between the two major kinds of corporate personality.
3. Q19 'X' is openly in possession of land belonging to 'Y' for an unbroken period of 14 years. (i) Can 'X' claim title to the land? Explain. (ii) List the modes of acqisition of ownership.

SECTION IV - Q.4: Answer in detailed any four (48 Marks - 12 marks each)

1. Q20 Examine the characteristics of Natural Law theory.
2. Q21 Discuss rights in a wider sense.
3. Q22 Compare legislation and precedent as sources of law bringing out their relative advantages and disadvantages.
4. Q23 Discuss the legal personality of the dead, drunken and unborn persons.
5. Q24 Discuss legal system as a normative order. Examine the similarities and differences of the legal system and other normative systems.
6. Q25 Critically analyse the concept 'property'.

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