Practice Test

Q1) A __________ is a will of legislature conveyed in the form of text. Show Answer

Q2) Which among the following is false. Statute are commonly divided into: Show Answer

Q3) The purpose of the interpretation is: Show Answer

Q4) __________ is the process by which the Court seek to ascertain the meaning of the legislature through the medium of the authoritative forms in which it is expressed. Show Answer

Q5) Which among the following statement is true: Show Answer

Q6) According to this rule, the words, phrases and sentences of a statue are ordinarily to be understood in their natural, ordinary or popular and grammatical meaning unless such a construction leads to an absurdity or the content or object of the statue suggests a different meaning. Name the rule of interpretation Show Answer

Q7) Which among the following statement is false: Show Answer

Q8) Which among the following is not the feature of "Rule of Literal Construction" Show Answer

Q9) While discussing rules of literal construction the Supreme Court in State of H .P v. Pawan Kumar (2005) held: Show Answer

Q10) According to the Mischief Rule or Heydon's Rule the Court while applying this rule, should consider: Show Answer

Q11) According to _______ the words of a statute must be construed ut res magis valeat quam pareat, so as to give a sensible meaning to them. A provision of law cannot be so interpreted as to divorce it entirely from common sense; every word or expression used in an Act should receive a natural and fair meaning Show Answer

Q12) Rule of reasonable Construction is also known as : Show Answer

Q13) Which among the following is false: While applying the rule of Reasonable construction, Show Answer

Q14) According to ________ a statute must be read as a whole and one provisions in the same Act so as to make a consistent enactment of the whole statute. Show Answer

Q15) Where in an enactment, there are two provisions which cannot be reconciled with each other, they should be so interpreted that, if possible, effect may be given to both, This is what is known as the: Show Answer

Q16) According to the Rule of Literal Construction, a statute is interpreted according to the general meaning of the words even if it leads to absurdity. Show Answer

Q17) According to the ______ where there are general words following particular and specific words, the general words following particular and specific words must be confined to things of the same kind as those specified, unless there is a clear manifestation of a contrary purpose. Show Answer

Q18) According to the _______ rule, express mention of one thing implies the exclusion of another. Show Answer

Q19) The maxim means that the best way to give the meaning to a document or proposition of a law is to read it as it would have read when it was made. Name the maxim. Show Answer

Q20) According to _______ rule of interpretation, meaning of a word should be known from its accompanying or associating words. Show Answer

Q21) Contemporanea Expositio Est Optima Et Fortissima in Lege rule will not be applied by court, where applying this rule leads to: Show Answer

Q22) Rule of Noscitur a Sociis will not be applicable in which of the circumstance: Show Answer

Q23) According to Rule of ________ "Acts, are not to be regarded as including anything which is not within their letter as well as their spirit, which is not clearly and intelligibly described in the very words of the statute, as well as manifestly intended", while by 'liberal construction' is meant that"everything is to be done in advancement of the remedy that can be done consistently with any construction of the statue". Show Answer

Q24) Rule of Strict Construction should generally be applied in which type of case: Show Answer

Q25) Rule of Liberal Construction should generally by applied in which type of case. Show Answer

Q26) The rule of Ejusdem Generis must be applied with great caution because it implies a departure from the natural meaning of words. Show Answer

Q27) If the intention of the legislature is not clear, there are number of presumptions. Which among the below is not the presumptions: Show Answer

Q28) The long _______ sets out in general terms, the purpose of the Act and it often precedes the preamble. Show Answer

Q29) The Civil Procedure Code, 1908 is a: Show Answer

Q30) __________ describes the objective of the Act, Show Answer

Q31) Which among the below statement is false Show Answer

Q32) Marginal note cannot be invoked for construction where the meaning is clear. Show Answer

Q33) Is reference to the Marginal Notes permitted? Show Answer

Q34) _________ is added to an enactment to quality or create an exception to what is in the enactment Show Answer

Q35) _______ is not interpreted as stating a general rule Show Answer

Q36) There is no distinction between 'proviso', 'exception' or 'Saving Clause'. Show Answer

Q37) The purpose of Interpretation Clause is : Show Answer

Q38) ________ attached to sections are part of the statue and they are useful so they help to furnish same indication of the presumable intention of the legislature. Show Answer

Q39) An _________ is at times appended to section to explain the meaning of words contained in the section. Show Answer

Q40) Illustrations cannot have the effect of modifying the language of the section and they cannot either curtail or expand the ambit of the section which alone forms the enactment. Show Answer

Q41) Expression in the schedule can control or prevail against the express enactment. Show Answer

Q42) Which among the below statement is true. Show Answer

Q43) Among the below options, what aid Court can use for interpreting the statutes? Show Answer

Q44) Which among the following is not an external aid in interpretation? Show Answer

Q45) Use of foreign decision of countries following the same system of jurisprudence as ours and rendered on statutes in ______ has been permitted by practice in Indian Courts. Show Answer

Q46) Which among the following is not a primary rule of interpretation? Show Answer

Q47) For the purpose of construction or interpretation, the Court obviously has to take recourse to various ________ Show Answer

Q48) The main part of the section must not be constructed in such a way as to render a proviso to the section redundant, True or false. Show Answer

Q49) The Supreme Court in Sodra Devi's case. AIR 1957 s . c.c 832 has expressed the view that the rule in _______ is applicable only when the words in question are ambiguous and are reasonably capable of more than one meaning. Show Answer

Q50) Expressio Unis Est Exclusio Alterius implies Show Answer

Q51) Supreme Court in Kamalpura Kochunni v. State of Madras, Air 1960 Sc 1080, pointed out that the preamble may be legitimately consulted in case any ambiguity arises in the construction of an Act and it may be useful to fix the meaning of words used so as to keep the effect of the statue within its real scope. Show Answer

Q52) A _____ is added to an enactment to quality or create an exception to what is in the enactment. Show Answer

Q53) In the interpretation of statutes, an important role is played as an internal aid by: Show Answer

Q54) When a word is not defined in the Act itself, it is permissible to refer to ________ to find out the general sense in which that word is understood in common parlance. Show Answer

Q55) Which of these does not form part of a statute? Show Answer

Q56) The purpose of interpretation clause is : Show Answer

Q57) As a general rule, a proviso is added to an enactment to ______ what is in the enactment. Show Answer

Q58) Which of these is not an Internal Aid in "Interpretation of Statuses". Show Answer

Q59) "Interpretation or construction is the process by which the Courts seek to ascertain the meaning of the legislature through the medium of the authoritative forms in which its is expressed". The above statement is given by - Show Answer

Q60) In the interpretation of statutes where there are general words following particular and specific words, the general words following particular and specific words must be confined to things of the same, kind a those specified, unless there is a clear manifestation of a contrary purpose. Such rule of interpretation is called- Show Answer