Interpretation of Statutes Questions and Answers Part-6

1.What Statute is an aid in the interpretation of Statutes?
a) General Clauses Act, 1897
b) Interpretation of Statutes Act, 1897
c) Law of Legislations, 1897
d) All of the above

Answer: a

2. While applying the literal rule of interpretation, it is important to keep in mind the
a) language
b) theme
c) context
d) applicability

Answer: c

3.Illustration: While interpreting a statute, one has internal and external aids to construction. Question: Which of the following in not an Internal aid to construction?
a) long title)
b) preamble
c) Parliamentary history
d) definitions

Answer: c

4. Delegatus non potest delegare
a) Debtor follows the person of the debtor
b) The reason of a decision
c) A delegated power cannot be further delegated
d) The law does not concern itself with trifling matters

Answer: c

5.expressumn facit cessare tacitum
a) Private disadvantage is counter balanced by public good
b) The reason of a decision
c) An action does not arise from a bare promise
d) express mention of one person or thing is exclusion of another

Answer: d

6. Generalia specialibus non derogant
a) The king can do no wrong
b) general things do not derogate from special things
c) The land passes with its burdens
d) An accessory follows the principal

Answer: b

7.Utres valet potior quam pareat.
a) it may rather become operative than null”.
b) A matter adjudged is taken for truth
c) An accessory follows the principal
d) The land passes with its burdens.

Answer: a

8. Expressum facit cessare tacitum.
a) Private disadvantage is counter balanced by public good
b) what is expressed makes what is implied to cease
c) An accessory follows the principal
d) A matter adjudged is taken for truth.

Answer: b

9.Judicium simper pro veritate accipitur
a) A judgment always accepted as true
b) A judgment pronounced by a judge to decide in a matter falling within his jurisdiction is of no effect
c) In equal delict, the position of the defender is the stronger
d) The immediate and not the remote cause is to be considered.

Answer: a

10.Supreme Courts precedent in binding on
a) Courts
b) Appellate Tribunals
c) Income Tax Authorities
d) All of the above

Answer: d