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AILET Legal Reasoning Questions
Practise legal reasoning (legal aptitude) for the All India Law Entrance Test: 10 multiple-choice questions, each with the correct answer and a worked explanation. Click an option to check it, or “New questions” for another set.
Legal Reasoning practice
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Q1.Principle: A minor’s agreement is void ab initio. Facts: A 16-year-old takes a loan and later refuses to repay. Can the lender enforce the loan?
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Answer: B — No
Agreements with minors are void (Mohori Bibee v. Dharmodas Ghose).
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Q2.Principle: A person is liable for negligence if they owe a duty of care and breach it, causing damage. Facts: A shopkeeper leaves a wet floor unmarked; a customer slips and breaks an arm. Is the shopkeeper liable?
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Answer: D — Yes
The shopkeeper owes customers a duty of care, breached it by not marking the hazard, and caused the injury.
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Q3.Principle: An offer must be communicated to be accepted. Facts: X finds a lost dog and returns it without knowing a reward was announced. Can X claim the reward?
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Answer: D — No
X could not accept an offer they did not know about (cf. Lalman Shukla v. Gauri Dutt).
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Q4.Principle: Trespass is unlawful entry onto another’s land. Facts: A enters B’s garden to save a child from drowning in B’s pond. The best defence is:
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Answer: C — Necessity
Entering to prevent serious harm can be justified by necessity.
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Q5.Principle: Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Facts: A tourist imports a banned item, saying he did not know it was banned. He is:
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Answer: D — Liable
Ignorantia juris non excusat — not knowing the law is no defence.
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Q6.Principle: Defamation requires a false statement harming reputation, published to a third party. Facts: A sends B a private letter calling B a thief; no one else reads it. Is it defamation?
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Answer: B — No — there is no publication to a third party
Without communication to a third person there is no publication.
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Q7.Principle: An employer is vicariously liable for torts committed by employees in the course of employment. Facts: A delivery driver hits a pedestrian while delivering parcels. Who can the pedestrian sue?
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Answer: D — The driver and the employer
The employer is vicariously liable; the driver remains personally liable.
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Q8.Principle: No one shall be a judge in their own cause. Which situation violates it?
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Answer: C — A judge hears a case involving a company in which the judge holds shares
A financial interest creates bias — nemo judex in causa sua.
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Q9.Principle: A public servant must not be punished without being heard. This reflects:
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Answer: C — Audi alteram partem
Audi alteram partem — ‘hear the other side’ — a rule of natural justice.
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Q10.Principle: Acceptance must be absolute and unqualified. Facts: A offers to sell a car for ₹5 lakh; B replies, “I accept at ₹4.5 lakh.” There is:
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Answer: A — No contract — B made a counter-offer
A conditional or modified acceptance is a counter-offer, not acceptance.
How to approach legal reasoning questions
Apply ONLY the principle given, even if real law differs. Identify the rule, match each fact to an element of the rule, and choose the option that follows strictly from the principle.
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AILET practice topics
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| Legal Reasoning | Legal aptitude | Question bank |
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| Logical Reasoning | Reasoning | Calculated (new numbers every set) |
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