The Specific Relief Act, 1877 Model Test 7 (English)

Time Allowed30 Minutes

Total Questions50 MCQs

Total Marks50 Marks

Negative Marking-0.25 Marks

Qualifying Mark50% Pass

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Specific Relief Act Model Test 7 (English)

The Specific Relief Act, 1877

Questions: 50
Full Marks: 50
Time: 30 Minutes

1 / 50

A contracts to sell B an estate. It contains a valuable unknown property. Specific performance should be:

A) Cancelled entirely

B) Granted strictly

C) Granted with double price

D) Refused to B unless he waives claim to the unknown property

2 / 50

A, claiming land as heir of B (believed dead without proof), contracts to sell to Z. Can A compel Z to perform?

A) No, A cannot compel Z specifically

B) Yes

C) Only if Court declares dead

D) Yes, with discount

3 / 50

Can a reversioner in remainder obtain specific performance of a covenant entered into with his predecessor?

A) No, never

B) Yes, if he will sustain material injury by its breach

C) Only if predecessor alive

D) Only for commercial

4 / 50

Specific performance cannot be enforced in favour of a person who had notice that a settlement of the subject-matter:

A) Had been made and was then in force

B) Was oral

C) Was illegal

D) Had been planned

5 / 50

Under Section 35(b), rescission may be adjudged where the contract is unlawful for causes not apparent, and:

A) Both equally

B) The defendant is more to blame than the plaintiff

C) Plaintiff more to blame

D) Neither

6 / 50

The provisions of Chapter II as to contracts shall apply to:

A) Criminal sentences

B) Government treaties

C) Awards and directions in a will to execute a particular settlement

D) Oral gifts

7 / 50

A contracts to sell land to B for 5,000. A conveys for 6,000 to C, who has notice. B may enforce against:

A) C

B) A only

C) Nobody

D) Government

8 / 50

Under Section 22, the discretion of the Court to decree specific performance must be guided by:

A) Financial status

B) Public opinion

C) Arbitrary choices

D) Judicial principles

9 / 50

Under Section 42, no Court shall make a declaration where the plaintiff, being able to seek further relief:

A) Asks for too much

B) Does so

C) Is a minor

D) Omits to do so

10 / 50

A and B negotiate to secure land for B for life. Contract confers absolute ownership. This contract:

A) Must be enforced as written

B) Must be cancelled

C) Makes B absolute owner

D) Cannot be specifically enforced as framed

11 / 50

A trustee of land with power to lease for 7 years enters into a contract to grant a 7-year lease with a covenant to renew. Can this be specifically enforced?

A) No, it cannot be specifically enforced

B) Only if registered

C) Yes

D) Only if beneficiary agrees

12 / 50

On adjudging the cancellation of an instrument, what may the Court require from the party receiving relief?

A) Public declaration

B) Government fees

C) Compensation to the other which justice may require

D) New contract

13 / 50

A tenant for life contracts to sell to C (with notice). A dies. C may enforce against:

A) A's executor

B) B (the remainderman)

C) Government

D) Nobody

14 / 50

Under Section 26(d), a variation is required if the object of the parties was to produce a certain legal result, which the contract is:

A) Calculated to produce

B) Too long

C) Unregistered

D) Not calculated to produce

15 / 50

Specific performance may be enforced against promoters of a public company if the company ratified it and:

A) It is warranted by the terms of the incorporation

B) Promoters employed

C) It is profitable

D) Government approves

16 / 50

A contracts to buy land from B. The contract is silent on access, and no right of way exists. Specific performance:

A) Must be granted

B) Cannot be challenged

C) Requires road

D) Should be refused to B

17 / 50

Under Section 23(b), if personal quality is a material ingredient, the representative in interest:

A) Can transfer

B) Shall not be entitled to specific performance unless his part is already performed

C) Can always enforce it

D) Must pay penalty

18 / 50

Under Section 21A, a contract for the sale of immovable property must be:

A) In writing and registered under the Registration Act, 1908

B) Notarized only

C) Oral and witnessed

D) Stamped

19 / 50

Promoters contract to purchase mineral property without precautions at an extravagant price. Can this be enforced?

A) Cannot be specifically enforced

B) Enforceable after incorporation

C) Can be enforced if vendors agree

D) Yes

20 / 50

A contracts to bequeath lands to B. A dies intestate, C takes out administration. B may enforce against:

A) Nobody

B) Relatives

C) C

D) State

21 / 50

A contracts to let B a wharf. Orally B proposed another strip, A assented. B signed. A cannot obtain specific performance EXCEPT:

A) With the variation set up by B

B) With new contract

C) Without variation

D) By damages

22 / 50

A agrees to sell a ship to B. B pays with four bills. Ship not delivered. A sues B on one bill. B may obtain:

A) The ship

B) Compensation

C) Cancellation of all the bills

D) Cancellation of one bill

23 / 50

If promoters enter into a contract before incorporation, who may obtain specific performance if warranted?

A) Shareholders

B) Promoters individually

C) Government

D) The company

24 / 50

Specific performance cannot be enforced in favour of a vendor who, previous to the contract, has made a:

A) Settlement of the subject-matter

B) Lease

C) Will

D) Mortgage

25 / 50

Section 42 empowers the Court to make a declaration of:

A) Status or right

B) Corporate insolvency

C) Independence

D) Criminal guilt

26 / 50

A sells land to a railway company, which contracts to execute works for his convenience. Specific performance of the works:

A) Should be decreed in favour of A

B) Cannot be enforced

C) Is voidable

D) Substituted with money

27 / 50

If a registered instrument is cancelled by the Court, the registering officer shall:

A) Arrest parties

B) Return fee

C) Note on the copy of the instrument in his books the fact of its cancellation

D) Delete document

28 / 50

A holding land under a contract for a lease commits waste or treats it unhusbandlike. Can A enforce specific performance?

A) Only if he pays rent

B) No

C) Yes

D) Only if he stops

29 / 50

A contracts to let B use A's railway for 21 years, requiring A to supply engine power and repair it. Specific performance:

A) Must be refused to B

B) Requires approval

C) Applies only to repair

D) Must be granted

30 / 50

A lessee of mines contracts that lessor B may take machinery at valuation. If this is most injurious to the lessee's business, specific performance:

A) Is mandatory

B) Requires arbitrator

C) Should be granted

D) Should be refused to B

31 / 50

Specific performance cannot be enforced in favour of a person who has become incapable of performing any:

A) Essential term of the contract

B) Minor detail

C) Future contract

D) Oral promise

32 / 50

A and B, trustees, join C to sell estate to D, agreeing to clear encumbrances. The purchase-money is not enough. Specific performance:

A) Forces C to pay

B) Should be refused to D

C) Should be granted to D

D) Transfers encumbrances

33 / 50

Section 27A regarding part performance of a contract to lease requires the contract to be:

A) Registered strictly

B) Made in writing signed by the parties or on their behalf

C) Notarized

D) Oral

34 / 50

If a contract provides for compensation for mistake, and assent was given under mistake, the contract may be specifically enforced if:

A) Mistake ignored

B) Property moveable

C) Mistake fatal

D) Compensation is made for a mistake within the scope of such provision

35 / 50

The Directors have power to sell a concern with sanction. They contract to sell it without sanction. This contract:

A) Can be enforced by shareholders

B) Is valid but voidable

C) Can be enforced

D) Cannot be specifically enforced

36 / 50

On adjudging the rescission of a contract, the Court may require the party to whom relief is granted to:

A) Surrender passport

B) Make any compensation to the other which justice may require

C) Apologize

D) Forfeit properties

37 / 50

The inhabitants of a village claim a right of way across A's land. A may sue for a declaration that:

A) They are not entitled to the right so claimed

B) Land belongs to village

C) He is leaving

D) They must pay toll

38 / 50

Specific performance cannot be enforced against a party if his assent was obtained by:

A) Registered document

B) Misrepresentation, concealment, circumvention or unfair practices

C) Legal advice

D) Fair negotiation

39 / 50

A person can sue to have a written instrument adjudged void or voidable if it may cause him:

A) Loss of friendship

B) Slight annoyance

C) Serious injury

D) Political disadvantage

40 / 50

A contracts to buy all goods from B. The Court cannot compel B to supply. A is ruined unless he buys elsewhere. Specific performance:

A) Should be refused to B

B) Must be granted to B

C) Enforced against A

D) Requires intervention

41 / 50

Under the Specific Relief Act, 1877, the term "obligation" includes every duty enforceable by:

A) Morality

B) Society

C) Religion

D) Law

42 / 50

Under Section 33, in rectifying an instrument, the Court may inquire what were intended to be its:

A) Grammatical structure

B) Location

C) Drafter

D) Legal consequences

43 / 50

A plaintiff cannot obtain specific performance without variation if the defendant supposed the contract to be different due to:

A) Fraud or mistake of fact

B) Plaintiff dislikes it

C) Verbal contract

D) Defendant bankrupt

44 / 50

A contracts to let and B to take a house. B refuses. A gets compensation. Can A later obtain specific performance?

A) Only if small

B) Yes

C) Only if B changes mind

D) No

45 / 50

A builds a new house, B orally agrees to pay 120 Taka instead of 100. B sues on written contract. He cannot enforce it except:

A) With the variations made by the subsequent oral contract

B) At 100 Taka

C) If A pays compensation

D) At market rate

46 / 50

A fraudulently represents a ship as seaworthy, inducing B to insure. What relief can B obtain?

A) Specific performance

B) Declaratory decree

C) Cancellation of the policy

D) Rescission

47 / 50

A institutes a suit for specific performance. If the Court refuses, it may, if A prayed in the alternative, direct it to be:

A) Handed to police

B) Published

C) Assigned to B

D) Rescinded and delivered up to be cancelled

48 / 50

Under Section 31, if the Court finds fraud or mistake, it may rectify the instrument so far as it can be done:

A) Without limit

B) Without prejudice to rights acquired by third persons in good faith

C) Immovable property

D) Only if defendant agrees

49 / 50

Is the Court bound to grant specific performance merely because it is lawful to do so under Section 22?

A) No, the jurisdiction is discretionary

B) Only immovable

C) Only if both request

D) Yes

50 / 50

Where an instrument is evidence of different rights, the Court may, in a proper case:

A) Cancel it in part and allow it to stand for the residue

B) Ignore it

C) Cancel entirely

D) Enforce fully

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