Chapter 1 Self-test questions

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Which of the following activities does NOT trigger legal rights or duties?

Buying a ready meal from the supermarket correct incorrect

Eating the ready meal correct incorrect

Tweeting about the quality of the ready meal correct incorrect

Thinking about the ready meal correct incorrect

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Which of the following academic questions is NOT also a legal question?

Does the Prime Minister have the right to ignore Parliament? correct incorrect

What is the Higgs Boson? correct incorrect

What is the ideal system of government? correct incorrect

Which is most effective, direct taxation or indirect taxation? correct incorrect

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Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Legal, Moral and Social duties often overlap. There is sometimes a causal link between them. correct incorrect

Legal duties are derived from moral duties, but social duties are not relevant to law-making. correct incorrect

Legal duties are derived from social duties, but moral duties belong exclusively to the sphere of religion and ethics. correct incorrect

Legal, Moral and Social duties are entirely separate and do not affect each other. correct incorrect

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Which of the following is not (in the UK) prohibited?

Adultery correct incorrect

Polygamy correct incorrect

Sex with someone under the age of 13 correct incorrect

Rape correct incorrect

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a 'Duty theory' principle?

'Love thy Neighbour' correct incorrect

'You shall love … your neighbour as yourself' correct incorrect

'The rule that you are to love your neighbour becomes in law, you must not injure your neighbour; and the lawyer's question, Who is my neighbour? receives a restricted reply. You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour.' (per Lord Atkin, Donoghue v Stevenson) correct incorrect

Whether one should act in a certain way towards one's neighbour should be determined by the degree to which doing so increases total human happiness and wellbeing. correct incorrect

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Read the following quote from a famous legal theorist. What sort of statement is it? "When … the step from pre-legal into the legal world is taken, so that the means of social control now includes a system of rules containing rules of recognitions, adjudication and change, this contrast between legal and other rules hardens into something definite" To which of the following jurisprudential traditions does the statement belong?

Natural Law correct incorrect

Positivist correct incorrect

Realist correct incorrect

Critical Legal Studies correct incorrect

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In the case of Stilk v Myrick [1809] EWHC KB J58, the claimant was a sailor contracted to sail from London to the Baltic and back. A quarter of the crew deserted so the captain agreed to split their wages between the remaining crew in return for their completing the voyage. On their return to London the captain refused to pay the remaining sailors on the grounds that they were merely doing what they were contracted to do in the first place, so the original contract had not been validly varied. One interpretation is that this reflected no great moral imperative or legal logic, but that it just reflected the prevailing pro-mercantile political climate in the UK at the time. From what legal tradition would this interpretation derive its strength?

Natural Law correct incorrect

Positivist correct incorrect

Realist correct incorrect

Critical Legal Studies correct incorrect

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Imagine a country, XLand, where the following events occur:
1800 - Revolution; republic created - Constitution A passed.
1850 - Case W v X on deceit establishes clear legal principle.
1900 - Revolution: constitutional monarchy established- Constitution B passed.
1950 - Case Y v Z on deceit confirms that under constitution B Case W v X remains good law.
Which of the following is the grundnorm in respect of the law of deceit in XLand?

Constitution A correct incorrect

W v X correct incorrect

Constitution B correct incorrect

Y v Z correct incorrect

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Which of the following institutions shares sovereignty in the UK?

Local Councils correct incorrect

The Scottish Parliament correct incorrect

The Greater London Authority correct incorrect

The House of Lords correct incorrect

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Imagine a fictional state, YLand, where its institutions have the following powers:
The Government of YLand which is in charge of putting laws into effect using the organs of state, like the YLand police.
The Ystag initiates and passes legislation and has a committee which operates as a court in certain matters.
The YLand Constitutional Court is the final court of appeal on public and constitutional matters and publishes binding case law. There is also a supreme court that deals with all other legal matters and published binding case law.
The Lord Protector of YLand who signs all primary legislation into law.
Which of the institutions does NOT have legislative powers?

The Government of YLand correct incorrect

The Ystag correct incorrect

The YLand Constitutional Court correct incorrect

The Lord Protector of YLand correct incorrect