Deck 1: Hindu Marriage and Succession Laws: Understanding Prohibited Relationships, Bigamy, and Property Rights

Question 1

According to Hindu Marriage Act marriage is termed as

A)a contract
B)a sacrament
C)agreement
D)settlement.

Answer 1

a sacrament

Question 2

How to become a Hindu?

A)By conversion
B)By Saptapadi
C)Datta Homam
D)Nupital fire.

Answer 2

By conversion

Question 3

Section 26 of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 provides

A)Custody of minor children
B)Adoption
C)inheritance
D)Right in mothers womb.

Answer 3

Custody of minor children

Question 4

Under which section of Hindu Marriage act included prohibited relationships?

A)Section 3 (e)
B)Section 3 (f)
C)Section 3(d)
D)Section 3(g).

Question 5

The marriage may be solemnized between two Hindus if

A)bride completes the age of 18 years and bridegroom completes the age of 21 years
B)bride completes the age of 21years and bridegroom completes the age of 18 years
C)bride completes the age of 14 years and bridegroom completes the age of 18 years
D)bride completes the age of 18 years and bridegroom completes the age of 18 years .

Question 6

Bigamy laws are not applicable to

A)Hindus
B)Muslims
C)Sikhs
D)Jains

Question 7

The Hindu Succession Act,2005, abolishes

A)the doctrine of the right survivorship
B)untouchability
C)Sati System
D)caste system.

Question 8

Bigamy under the Hindu Marriage act, 1955 includes

A)patriachal and patrilocal
B)matriachal and matrilocal
C)Polygamy and polyandry
D)Polygamy.

Question 9

Desertion is a

A)total repudiation of obligation of marriage.
B)Renounced the world by entering religious order.
C)heard of being as alive for a period of seven years.

Question 10

Which of the following is provided in the section 7 of Hindu Marriage act?

A)Registration
B)ceremonies of a Hindu Marriage
C)Adoption of child
D)Void marriages.

Question 11

Presumption that the younger survived the elder under section 21 of Hindu Succestion Act 2005 is

A)Presumption of fact
B)Presumption of fact and law.
C)Rebuttable presumption of law.
D)Irrebuttable presumption of law.

Question 12

Which of the following is correct with respect to Section 5(i) of Hindu marriage Act 1955?

A)neither party has a spouse living at the time of marriage
B)neither party has a living children at the time of marriage
C)Husband should not have a spouse at the time of marriage
D)wife should not have a spouse at the time of marriage.

Question 13

Section 14 of the Hindu Succession Act 2005 applies to

A)movable property
B)Immovable property
C)Immovable and movable property
D)Public property.

Question 14

Section 8 of Hindu Marriage Act 1955 relates to

A)Celebration of marriages
B)Dowry
C)Registration of Hindu marriages
D)Restitution of Conjugal rights.

Question 15

'Heir' has been defined under:

A)Section 3(d) of the Hindu Succession Act
B)Section 3(e) of the Hindu Succession Act
C)Section 3(f) of the Hindu Succession Act
D)Section 3(g) of the Hindu Succession Act.

Question 16

A share to which an aliene of an interest of a coparcener is entitled is the share which the alienor is entitled on.

A)date of alienation
B)the date of suit
C)The date of the decree
D)as directed by the court.

Question 17

A coparcener has

A)a right to renounce his interest in the coparcenary property but subject to the consent to all other coparceners.
B)a right to renounce his interest in the coparcenary property generally
C)no right to renounce his interest in the coparcenary property
D)A coparcener can renounce his interest in the coparcenary property in favouur of any one coparcener

Question 18

Who amongst the following has a right to challenge the alienation of joint hindu property

A)a coparcener in the womb at the time of alienation
B)a coparcener conceived and born after the alienation
C)an adopted son , adopted after the alienation
D)a stranger on behalf of adopted son

Question 19

Alienation by the karta without legal necessity or the benefit of estate is

A)Voidable at the 'instance of any coparcener
B)Voidable at the instance of the alienee
C)Void abinitio.

Question 20

An alienee-purchaser of an undivided share or a coparcener is

A)entitled to the mesne profits from the date of is purchase , till the date of decree
B)entitled to the mesne profits from the date of his purchase , till the date of the suit
C)not entitled to the mesne profits from the date of his purchase, till the date of the decree
D)not entitled to the mesne profits from the date of his purchase , till the date of the suit

Question 21

Each son acquires at his birth an equal interest with his father in all ancestral property held by the father under

A)Mitakshara law
B)Dayabhaga law
C)Mitakshara law and dayabhaga law
D)Hindu Succession law.

Question 22

Father under the Dayabhaga law,can dispose of the ancestral property by

A)sale
B) gift
C)will
D)Sale, gift and will.

Question 23

on the death of father, the sons under the Dayabhaga law, take the ancestral property as

A)joint tenants
B)tenants in common
C)as per the law of primo geniture
D)joint tenants or tenants in common as per the consent of all.

Question 24

kartas power of alienation of ancestral property are

A)wider than that of karta under the Mitakshara law
B)restricted then that of karta under Mitakshara law
C)same as that of karta under Mitakshara law
D)wider in certain respects and restricted in certain others, than that of karta under the Mitakshara law.

Question 25

A hindu male is under a pious obligation to pay the private debts of his

A)father
B)grand father
C)great grand father
D)Father, grandfather and great grand father