Law Of Torts - Study Mode
[#516] Act of State means
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(A) An exercise of power against an alien and neither intended nor purporting to be regally founded
[#517] A person was arrested by the policeman on suspicion of being in possession of stolen property. His property was kept in government Malkhana. The policeman in charge of Malkhana misappropriated the property and fled to Pakistan. Is the state liable to the owner of the property for the wrongful acts of its civil servant?
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(D) The state is liable even for sovereign functions
[#518] Vis major is an
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(C) Inevitable accident beyond human control
[#519] Read Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and answer by using below: Assertion (A): According to the 'law of tort' every wrongful act for which there is no justification or excuse to be treated as a tort. Reason (R): Theory of 'pigeon-hole' was propounded by Salmond.
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(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
[#520] Which of the following is a better definition of negligence?
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(B) Not foreseeing the consequences of an act which a reasonable person would have foreseen