CCSU LLB - Legal Language Legal Writing - 2023 - Old question paper

LLB 6th Semester Examination, June 2023
Legal Language, Legal Writing Including Proficiency in Gen. English
(K-6002)

Section A
Note: Answer all questions. Each question carries 4 marks

1. Convert the following as directed
(i) Aradhana said she could carry all the books. (Direct Speech)

Ans: Aradhana said, "I can carry all the books".

(ii) Reema said, "I drove the bike." (Indirect Speech)

Ans. Reema said that she had driven the bike.

(iii) Hari said he would come the next day. (Direct speech)

Ans. Hari said, "I shall go tomorrow."

(iv) He said, "I haven't seen Pragya." (Indirect speech)

Ans. He said that he has not seen Pragya.

2. Correct the following sentence
(i) The student regretted from his behaviour.

Ans. The student regretted to his behaviour.

(ii) Being a rainy day, I could not walk to college.

Ans. It being a rainy day, I could not walk to college.

(iii) A fifty year old has joined our university.

Ans. A fifty year old student has joined our university.

(iv) She is suffering from strong fever.

Ans. She is suffering from high fever.

3. Change the sentences as directed
(i) Mohan changed the flat tire. (Passive voice)

Ans. The flat tire is changed by Mohan.

(ii) A movie is going to be watched by us tonight. (Active voice)

Ans. We are going to watch a movie tonight.

(iii) He loves me. (Passive voice)

Ans. I am loved by him.

(iv) The novel was read by mom in one day. (Active voice)

Ans. Mom read the novel in one day.

4. Write synonyms
(i) Acquittal

Ans: Discharge

(ii) Confinement

Ans: Imprisonment 

(iii) Damage

Ans: Penalty

(iv) Guilty 

Ans: convicted    

5. Write full form of the following abbreviations:

(i) AIR

Ans: All India Reporter

(ii) SCC

Ans: Supreme Courte Case

(iii) CrLJ

Ans: Criminal Law of Justice

(iv) JT

Ans: Jury Trial

Section B
Note: Answer any one question. Each question carries 20 marks

6. Write short not on the following:

(i) Audi alteram partem

Ans: The maxim is taken from Latin which means “Listen to the other side” or “let the other side be heard as well”. It is fundamental legal principle in which each party is entitled to a fair hearing and given the opportunity to respond to evidence against them.

(ii) Nemo judex in causa sua

Ans: The phrase is taken from Latin which means "no-one is judge in his own cause". It is a principle of natural justice that no person can judge a case in which they have an interest.

Click here for commonly asked maxims

7. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper about the misleading advertisements.

Ans: 

8. Explain Obter Dictum

Ans: Obiter dictum is a Latin phrase which mean “that which is said in passing,” an incidental statement. Specifically, in law, it refers to a passage in a judicial opinion which is not necessary for the decision of the case before the court. Such statements lack the force of precedent but may nevertheless be significant.

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Section C
Note: Answer any two questions. Each question carries 30 marks

9. Write an essay on any one of the following:
(i) Judicial system in India.
(ii) Child labour
(iii) Consumer Protection
(iv) Right to die.

10. Explain the following legal maxims.
(i) Res nullius

(ii) Locus standi

(iii) Ultra-vires

(iv) Respondeat superior

Ans: Click here for explanations of all of these maxims and more

11. Translate the following in the English-
12. Translate the following in to Hindi-

13. Comprehension-

Rights and duties are the two sides of the same coin. One can't exist without the other. Duties without rights are mere slavery. Similarly rights without duties amount to lawlessness. In any civilized society, rights and duties must go side by side. But in today's world everyone talks about much of his rights. There is a great hue and cry if our rights are infringed. But nobody seems to bother much about his duties. That is why there is a great unrest in our day to day life. Actually duties come first, right afterwards.

(i) Why there is great unrest in our present day life?

Ans: In any civilized society, rights and duties must go side by side. But in today's world everyone talks about much of his rights. There is a great hue and cry if our rights are infringed. But nobody seems to bother much about his duties. That is why there is a great unrest in our day to day life.

(ii) What do you think comes first... rights or duties?

Ans: Duties come first, right follows.

(iii) Give one example to show one man's right another man's duty.

Ans: For example, right to life is a right for every citizen. To protect this right, the police should perform their duties. Unless the police perform their duties, right to life can not be protected. So in this way we can see that one man's right is another man's duty.