Law Of Torts MCQ question and answer | Law MCQ question

A tort is a breach of duty, which is

In which of the following cases the 'Principal of common Employment' was evolved for the first time?

Z digs the mud road in front of his house. In the evening after it became dark a passerby hits the debris and is injured. The passerby brings a civil suit as well as files a criminal case of public nuisance. He can

The manufacturer's liability principle was laid down in:

In nuisance, a defendant is liable to unusually sensitive plaintiff:

Match the following

a. Negligence	1. Rylands v. Fletcher
b. Strict Liability	2. M. C. Mehta v. Union of India
c. Absolute Liability	3. Glasgow Corporation v. Muir
d. Nervous Shock	4. Bourhill v. Young

The main supporter of the theory, that it is 'Law of Tort' and not 'Law of Torts' is

Principle: Even if a person suffers a loss, he will be entitled to receive compensation only if a legal right is violated.
Factual Situation: An English teacher in a famous 'English School' after having some rift with the management left the school and started a new 'Language School' very close to the English School. Many students of the English School left it and joined the new Language School. As a result, the English School suffered huge financial loss and hence filed a suit for compensation against the new school.

Match the following

a. Winfield	1. Tort means a civil wrong, which is not exclusively a breach of contract or breach of trust.
b. Fraser	2. a civil wrong for which the remedy is a common law action for unliquidated damages and which is not exclusively the breach of a contract or the breach of a trust or other merely equitable obligation
c. Salmond	3. tortuous liability arises from the breach of a duty primarily fixed by the law; this duty is towards persons generally and its breach is redressable by an action for unliquidated damages
d. Section 2(m), Limitation Act	4. an infringement of a right in rem of a private individual giving a right of compensation at the suit of the injured party

"Res ipsa loquitur" is the maxim used when