II - B.S.L.,LEGAL LANGUAGE (Sem. - IV),University Of Pune Question Paper,2011 Question Paper

University Of Pune Question Paper
 II - B.S.L.
LEGAL LANGUAGE
 (Sem. - IV) (2003 Pattern)
Time : 3 Hours] [Max. Marks : 100
Instructions to the candidates :
1) All questions are compulsory.
2) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
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Q1) a) Analyse the following words and mention the process of word formation.
(any ten) : [10]
i) Book mark
ii) Story-teller
iii) Counterfoil
iv) Embrace
v) Night walk
vi) Quarter final
vii) Embody
viii) LL.B
ix) Trisemester
x) Undertaking
xi) On-the-cloud
xii) Inheritance
b) Give synonyms of the following words (any five). [5]
i) Mansion
ii) Obey
iii) Summary
iv) Abide
v) Resume
vi) Abstract
vii) Talent
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c) Give antonyms of the following words (any five). [5]
i) Blunt
ii) Cunning
iii) Concave
iv) For
v) Ascend
vi) Constant
vii) Benevolence
Q2) a) Use the following phrases and set expressions in your own sentence
bring out their meaning clearly (any ten). [10]
i) Ad-hoc
ii) In rem
iii) Ab-initio
iv) Bell the cat
v) Bonafide
vi) In lieu of
vii) In- toto
viii) In response to
ix) Call of
x) Obiter dicta
xi) Get rid of
xii) Face to face
b) Explain the following legal terms (any five). [10]
i) Cy-press
ii) Injunction
iii) De facto
iv) Mandatory
v) In situ
vi) Mala fide
vii) In camera
Q3) a) Use the following cohesive devices and sentence connectors in your
own sentences so as to bring out their meaning clearly (any five). [5]
i) But
ii) None the less
iii) Between
iv) Because
v) Until and unless
vi) Indeed
vii) As far as
b) Do you agree with the following statements? If yes, why? If no, Why?
(any one): [5]
i) Media trials are affecting the judicial process.
ii) Present legal system should be rectified.
iii) Reservation for women is a need.
c) Write an essay on Any one of the following: [10]
i) Judicial activism.
ii) Euthanasia.
iii) Environmental protection.
Q4) a) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given
bellow: [10]
It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific
methods. I venture to think that the people who talk most about it are the
people who do least about it. Scientific method is what working scientists
do, not what other people or even they themselves may say about t. No
working scientist when he plans an experiment in the laboratory asks
himself whether he is not being properly scientific, nor is he interested in
whatever method he may be using as method.
When the scientist ventures to criticize the work of his fellow scientist,
as is not uncommon, he does not base his criticism n such glittering
generalities as failure to follow the ‘scientific method’, but his criticism
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is specific, based on some features characteristic of the particular situation.
The working scientist is always too much concerned with getting down
to brass tacks to be willing to spend his time on generalities.
Scientific method is something talked about by people standing on
the outside and wondering how the scientist manages to do it. These
people have been able to uncover various generalities applicable to at
least most of what the scientist does, but it seems to me that these
generalities are not very profound and could have been anticipated by
anyone who knew enough about scientists to know what is their primary
objective. I think that the objectives of all scientists have this in common
that they are trying to get the correct answer to the particular problem in
hand. This may be expressed in more pretentious language as the persuit
of truth. Now if the answer to the problem is correct- the very meaning
of truth implies the possibility of checking his result always inheres in
what the scientist does. Furthermore, this checking must be exhaustive,
for the truth of a general proposition may be disproved by a single
exceptional case. A long experience has shown the scientist that various
things are inimical to getting the correct answer. He has found that if he
wants to be sure, he must be able to check a result for himself. Hence the
scientist is the enemy of all authoritanism. Futhermore, he finds that he
often makes mistakes himself and he must learn how to guard against
them. He cannot permit himself any preconception as to what sort of
results he will get nor must he allow himself to be influenced by wishfull
thinking or any personal bias. All these things together give that 'objectivity'
to science which is often thought to be the essence of the scientific
method.
But to the working scientist himself all this appears obvious and
trite. What appears to him as the essence of the situation is that he is not
consciously following any prescribed course of action but feels complete
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freedom to utilize any method or device whatever which in particular
situation before him seems likely to yield the correct answer. In his attack
on his specific problem he suffers no inhibitions of precedents or authority,
but is completely free to adopt any course that his ingenuity is capable
of suggesting to him. No one standing on the outside can predict what
the individual scientist will do or what method he will follow. In short,
science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods
as there are individual scientists.
i) This passage is based on a contrast between two views on scientific
method. What are these two views?
ii) What are the common goals of all scientists?
iii) What are the things the scientist should be watchful against?
iv) Why does the scientist not rely on the authority?
v) What do you understand by the following phrases:
1) ‘Getting down to brass tacks’.
2) ‘Suffers no inhibitions’.
b) Read and comprehend the following passage carefully and make note on it.
[10]
A person may have legitimate expectations of being treated in a
certain way by an administrative authority even though he has no legal
right in private law to receive such treatment. The expectation may arise,
either from a representation or promise made by the authority, including
an implied representation, or from consistent past practice. The doctrine
of legitimate expectation has an important place in the developing law of
judicial review. It is, however, not necessary o explore the doctrine, in a
particular case, however, it is to be noted that a legitimate expectation
can provide a sufficient interest to enable one who cannot point to the
existence of a substantive right to obtain the leave of the court to apply
judicial review. It is generally agreed that 'legitimate expectation' gives
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the applicant sufficient locus standi for judicial review and that the doctrine
of legitimate expectation to be confined mostly o right of a fair hearing
before a decision which results in negativating a promise or withdrawing
an undertaking. The doctrine does not give scope to claim relief
straightway from the administrative authorities as no crystallized right is
involved. The protection of such legitimate expectation does not require
the fulfillment of the expectations where an overriding public interest
requires otherwise.
Q5) a) Translate the following passage into Marathi/Hindi. [10]
The right of admission into an educational institution is a right which
an individual citizen has as a citizen and not as a member of any community
or class of citizens. Hence a school run by minority, if it is aided by state
funds, cannot refuse admission to children belonging to other
communities. But minority community may reserve upto 50 percent of
seats for the members of its own community in educational institution
established and administered by it even if the institution is getting aid
from state. The state, however, cannot direct minority educational
institutions to restrict admission to the members of their own communities.
A Bombay government circular order directing the schools with English
medium to admit only Anglo-Indian and citizens of non-Asiatic descent
in classes taught in English was held ultra-vires, because the order denied
to all pupils whose mother tongue was not English, admission to any
school where he medium of instruction was English. The order would
not be valid even if the object for making I is the promotion or
advancement of the national language.
OR
Write a precis of the following passage:
Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her
blessings among the different regions of the world with an eye to this mutual
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intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the natives of several parts of the
globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another, and be united
together by their common interest. Almost every degree produces something
peculiar to it. The food often grows in one country, and the sauce in another.
The fruits of Portugal are corrected by the products of Barbadoes, and the
infusion of a China plant is sweetened by the pith of Indian cane. The Philippine
islands give a flavor to our European bowls. The single dress of a women of
quality is often the product of a hundred climates. The muff and the fan come
together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid
zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat rises out of
mines of peru, and the dimond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.
b) Draft a Mortgage deed of a house. [10]
OR
Draft a legal and valid will under the Indian succession Act.

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