Tort Multiple Choice Questions
Tort Multiple Choice Questions
Tort Multiple Choice Questions
16. Write the defenses available in cases of strict liability and absolute liability. (Max-100 words)
Name: Test – 1 (TORT)
Roll No. Date – 24 Sept. 2016
Signature: Max. Time – 20 min.
1. Tort committed while performing a duty in 7. In a recent case, the Supreme Court, while
discharge of obligations imposed by law has deviating from the ratio of kasturilal’s case,
been considered: held that the principle of sovereign immunity
a) To be a defense in India of state will not absolve it from tortuous
b) To be a defense in England liability of its servants, and that the
c) To be a defense in England and not India distinction between sovereign and non-
d) Both (a) and (b) sovereign functions no longer exists. The
2. Which article of the Constitution of India Case is
deals with suability of union of India? a) Narendra Rao & co. v State of A.P
a) Article 300 b) Rup Ram v State of Punjab
b) Article 301 c) Shyam sunder v state of Rajasthan
c) Article 302 d) Union of India v Savita Sharma
d) None of the Above 8. The rule of strict liability implies
3. An act done by government servants in a) No-fault liability i.e. the fault or
exercise of statutory powers is a defense negligence of the guilty party is
a) If the said act is a constitutional act immaterial
b) If the said act is in exercise of sovereign b) Liability based on fault
functions c) State liability
c) If the said act is in exercise of non- d) Absolute liability
sovereign functions 9. The rule of ‘absolute liability’ implies
d) None of the above a) strict liability
4. The distinction between sovereign and non- b) stricter than strict liability
sovereign functions of the state was laid c) state liability
down in d) none of the above
a) Rylands v Fletcher 10. The rationale of absolute liability is that the
b) Donoghue v Stevenson undertakers of hazardous activities
c) M.C. Mehta v Union of India. a) if they are at fault.
d) Peninsular and Oriental steam Navigation b) Partially even if they are not at fault
Co. v Secretary of State, India. c) regardless of any fault on their part.
5. Which of the following is not a sovereign d) if they have not taken reasonable care.
function of the state? 11. The rule of strict liability was laid down in
a) Administration of Justice Rylands v Fletcher by
b) Maintenance of Law and order a) Blackburn J. in 1868
c) Defense b) Lord Atkin in 1635
6. Family relief work. In which of the case it c) Winfield in 1765
was laid down that the state should be liable d) Holt, C J. in 1868
like just an ordinary employer 12. The “Absolute liability” theory as the basis for
a) State of Rajasthan v Vidyawati liability in court for industrial injuries was
b) Rup Ram v State of Punjab propounded by
c) Kasturi Lal Ralia Ram Jain v state of UP a) Blackburn, J.
d) Both (a) & (b) b) V. R. Krishna Iyer, J.
c) P. N. Bhagwati, C. J
d) Lord Atkin