SOME JURISPRUDENCE QUESTION PAPERS

A few Jurisprudence Question papers are reproduced hereunder.

The following are Calicut University Question Papers.

First semester LLB 5 year degree examination March 2013

(2007 and earlier admissions)

(Common to I^st semester LL.B 3 year course

6 Mark questions:

1.      What are the advantages of legislation over precedent?

2.      What is meant by duplicate ownership

3.      Explain the relationship between law and morality

4.      Wrote a short note on civil and criminal justice

5.      Explain the mischief rule of interpretation

6.      What is meant by codification? What are its advantages?

7.      Distinguish between right in rem and right in personam

8.      What are the  uses and purposes of incorporation

10 Mark questions.

1.      Explain the maximum actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea

2.      What is possession? Explain the various modes of acquiring possession

3.      Examine the analytical theory of Austin

4.      What is meant by title? Explain the classification of title.

20 Mark questions

1.      Explain precedent as a source of law

2.      What are the various kinds of legal rights

3.      Examine the contribution of sociological school of jurisprudence

4.      Distinguish between the supreme and subordinate registration. State the chief forms of subordinate legislation

 

First semester LL.B (Three Year) Degree Examination, April 2013.

Common to V semester LL.B. 5 Yr Degree

Part 1

1.      Explain the will theory of right

2.      What are the objectives of administration of civil justice?

3.      Examine the system of precedent as a source of law

4.      Write a note on distributive justice and corrective justice

5.      Explain the right in rem

6.      Write a note on the contribution of Henry Maine

7.      Define liability

8.      What are the rights of unborn persons?

Part 2

1.      What do you mean by legislation? What are the different kinds of legislation

2.      What are the modes of acquiring ownership

3.      What do you mean by negligence? What are the theories of negligence

4.      Define property. What are the different kinds of property

Part 3

1.      Explain the contribution of the natural law theory for the development of legal system in the 20^th century

2.      Discuss the factors weakening the operation of precedent as a source of law

3.      Discuss the jural correlatives enunciated by Hohfeld

4.      What do you mean by person? What are the different kinds of persons?

 

Third semester LL.B (5 Year) Degree examination APRIL 2013.

CL5 Jurisprudence

(Legal method, Indian-Legal system and basic theory of law)

Part 1

1.      Examine the relationship between law and morality

2.      Ownership is either vested or contingent-comment

3.      Explain the doctrine of prospective over ruling

4.      Distinguish between civil and criminal justice

5.      Discuss the theories with regard to the relationship between state and law

6.      Explain the relation between custom and prescription

7.      Law is not the right alone or might alone but the perfect union of two. Explain

8.      Write a note on obiter dictum

Part 2

1.      Discuss the important characteristics of analytical school of jurisprudence

2.      Discuss how far the doctrine of stare decisis has been followed in supreme court  of India

3.      Possession is nine points in law comment

4.      What is codification? What are its merits and demerits of codification

Part 3

1.      Examine legislation as a source of law

2.      What is meant by person? What are the different kinds of persons?

3.      A right is an interest recognized and protected rule of law discuss

4.      Discuss the theories of punishment

Fifth semester LL.B (5 Year) degree examination, March 2012

(Common to Ist semester LL.B (3Year ) Course.

(2001-2007 admissions)

Part 1

1.      Distinguish between intention and motive

2.      What are the elements of a state

3.      Explain the legal statues of the dead men and unborn persons

4.      Write a short note on misstate of law and mistake of fact

5.      What is meant by ratio decidendi

6.      Explain the difference between right in rem and right in personam

7.      Distinguish between contingent right and vested right

8.      Explain the theory of strict liability

Part 2

1.      Define legal right. What are the elements of legal right

2.      Rights and duties are co relative explain

3.      Explain the purpose of the criminal justice

4.      Examine the relationship between natural law and positive law

Part 3

1.      What are the different kinds of legislation?

2.      What is meant by ownership? Discuss briefly the different kinds of ownership

3.      Explain the circumstances destroying or weakening the binding force of precedent

4.      What are the constituents of a valid custom? How would you distinguish custom from prescription?

Fifth semester LL.B (5 Year) Degree examination March 2012. (Common to 1 semester LL.B (3 Year) course

(2001-2007 Admissions)

Part 1

1.      Write a note on imperative theory of law

2.      What is positivism

3.      Write a note on legal right

4.      Explain corrective justice and distributive justice

5.      Explain the status of the unborn persons

6.      What is right in rem

7.      State the methods of acquiring possession

8.      Discuss the different ways in which these could be duplicate ownership

Part 2

1.      Explain with illustrations, substantive and procedural law

2.      Ownership is either vested or contingent. Explain

3.      Explain possession in fact and possession in law

4.      Motive is not generally a factor for determining criminal liability comment

Part 3

1.      Examine the nature and scope of legal personality. Consider the status of lower animals dead men and unborn persons

2.      Explain the different theories of punishment

3.      Analyze the concept of possession, which are the essentials necessary to constitute it.  Which are the different modes of acquisition of property

4.      The function and purpose of law is justice stability and peaceful change. Discuss

First semester LL.B (3 year) Degree Examination June 2012

(Common to V semester LL.B (5 Year) Course. 2008 admissions

Part 1

1.      What is meant by dominant heritage?

2.      Explain the doctrine of stare decisis

3.      What is Voksgeist

4.      Write a short note on equity

5.      What do you mean by positive and negative rights?

6.      What are the benefits of incorporation

7.      Define servitude. Distinguish it from property

8.      Explain acts in law and act of law

Part 2

1.      Explain custom as a source of law. What are the different kinds of custom?

2.      What do you mean by territoriality of law? Distinguish it from territorial operation of law

3.      Write a note on the Scandinavian realism

4.      What are the different sources of obligation

Part 3

1.      Ownership is a right indefinite in point of user, unrestricted in point of disposition and unlimited in point of duration over a determinate thing Austin. Elucidate

2.      Critically evaluate the contribution of analytical jurisprudence to the development of jurisprudence

3.      Explain the tenets of American realism

4.      Critically evaluate the different sources of law

First semester LL.B (3 Year) Degree examination, May 2011. Common to V semester LL.B (5 Year  course)

 2008 admissions

Part 1

1.      Explain vested and contingent interest

2.      Write short note on sociological school of jurisprudence

3.      Explain the doctrine of precedent

4.      Distinguish between motive and intention

5.      Examine the legal status of an unborn person

6.      Explain the theory of strict liability

7.      State the differences between civil and criminal justice

8.      What are the advantages of codification

Part 2

1.      Rights are duties are necessarily co relative explain

2.      What are the modes of acquisition of property

3.      The act alone does not make the doer of its guilty comment

4.      What are the sources of obligation

Part 3

1.      Write a critical note on the relationship between natural law and positive law

2.      What are the different kinds of legislation

3.      Explain the requisites of a valid custom

4.      Ownership strictly a legal concept possession is both a legal and a non legal or pre legal concept comment.

Fifth semester (5 Year) Degree examination, June 2011                           Common to 1^st Semester LL.B 3  year course                               (2001 to 2007 admissions)

Part  1

1.      What are the different modes of acquisition of property

2.      Write a note on delegated legislation

3.      Explain intention and motive

4.      What is ratio decidendi? Distinguish it from obiter dicta

5.      Explain corporate personality

6.      What is meant by codification? What are its advantages

7.      Distinguish between right in rem and right in personam

8.      Write a short note on Kelson's pure theory of law

Part 2

1.      A right is an interest recognized and protected by a rule of legal justice explain

2.      Critically evaluate Austin's theory of law

3.      Explain the difference between law and morals

4.      What are the sources of obligation?

Part 3

1.      What are the theories of punishment

2.      Examine custom as a source of law

3.      What are the various types of ownership? State the difference between ownership and possession

4.      Critically evaluate the contribution of sociological school of jurisprudence

First semester LL.B (3 Year) Degree examination May 2009. 2008 admissions

Part 1

1.      Write short note on natural law

2.      Distinguish between condition precedent and condition subsequent

3.      State briefly Roscoe Pounds theory of social engineering

4.      Explain delegated legislation

5.      Distinguish between substantive and procedural law

6.      Explain the maxim actus non facit rea nisi mens sit rea

7.      What is solitary obligation

8.      What is golden rule of interpretation

Part 2

1.      Explain the merits of legislation over other sources of law

2.      What are the different kinds of possession?

3.      The function of a judge is not to make law but to declare law comment

4.      Explain Austins imperative theory of law

Part 3

1.      What are the various kinds of legal rights

2.      What are the theories of corporate personality

3.      Examine the purpose of criminal justice

4.      Explain the requisites of a valid custom

 First semester LL.B ( 3 Year) Degree examination

APRIL 2008

Part 1

1.      What is meant by social engineering theory?

2.      There  cannot be no right without corresponding duty explain

3.      Explain obiter dicta and ratio decidendi

4.      State the difference between legal custom and conventional custom

5.      What is meant by codification

6.      Critically examine marks concept of whithering away of the law of state

7.      What is obligation? What are the sources of obligation

8.      Distinguish positive rights from negative rights

Part 2

1.      What are the uses and purposes of incorporation

2.      Discuss the grounds for abolition of death penalty

3.      Possession is nine points in law comment

4.      What are the merits of comparative jurisprudence

Part 3

1.      What is meant by legislation? What are the advantages of legislation over precedent as a source of law

2.      Define ownership. What are the kinds of ownership

3.      Explain the different theories of punishment

4.      Discuss the important characteristics of analytical jurisprudence