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3. What constitutes a partnership? What are the reciprocal rights and liabilities of partners (1) as between themselves (2) as between themselves and strangers?

4. A, a partner in a firm, purchases the house in which the partnership business is carried on. Can he, on the expiration of a then running lease, enhance the rent payable by the firm? If not, why not? What difference. if any, would it make, if the house became his by gift or bequest?

5. A and B jointly promise to pay C Rs. 1000 on demand. C, afterwards, without A's concurrence, releases B from his promise. Is A still liable to pay C, and if so, how much? A, knowing that C has released B, voluntarily pays the whole Rs. 1000 to C. Can he afterwards sue B for contribution? If not, why not?

6. Define fraud and misrepresentation. What is their effect upon a contract?

7. What is the law as to appropriation of payments?

8. What is contributory negligence? A, the customer of a bank, has been warned by his bankers to keep his cheque-book under lock and key. He does not do so, but negligently leaves it on the table in an empty room. B, A's servant, enters the room, tears out a leaf from the cheque-book, forges a cheque for Rs. 500, cashes it at the bank, and then disappears. Who must bear the loss?

9. What is stoppage in transitu? If goods, that have been stopped in transitu, are resold by the seller after reasonable notice to the buyer, who is bound to bear any loss, and who is entitled to any profit that may result from such resale ?

10. A sold, and delivered to B, a horse warranted to be sound but which was in fact unsound at the time of the sale. Has B any remedy? Can he return the horse without A's consent?

11. What is a bailment? How many kinds of bailments are there, and what obligations are in each case imposed upon the bailee ? 12. A's dog kills B's donkey, without the knowledge of either A or B; B's donkey is left lying on the high road; C, a shortsighted man, was driving in a buggy to present for payment a cheque, the property of his employer D, and coming across the donkey's body, upsets his buggy, and gets one of his legs broken. The bank, upon which the cheque was drawn, stops payment the same afternoon, and the cheque was not presented in time, solely on account of the accident to C. Can B sue A ? Can C sue either A or B ? Can D sue A, B, or C? Can C sue D for injury sustained while employed in his service ?

CIVIL PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE.

Examiner-MR. C. PIFFARD.

1. What is an admission? In what cases is it inadmissible to prove a previous admission or statement as against the person or the representative of the person who made it? In what cases, if any, may a previous admission or statement, be

proved on behalf of the

person who made it? Give reasons and illustrations.

2. When the question in issue is whether A did or did not survive B, and the date of B's death is known, what evidence is necessary to place the burden of proving that A died before B on the party who so states? What evidence given by him is sufficient to throw the burden of proof on the other side?

3. When is a foreign judgment no bar to a suit in British India? 4. In what cases, if any, may a Court make a decree upon a lost negotiable instrument?

5. From what materials may a Court frame issues upon a settlement of issues?

6. When may a case be disposed of at the first hearing?

7. If a suit has been instituted or an application made in a Court which has no jurisdiction to try the suit or hear the application, can such Court make any order as to costs? If such an order should be made, (1st) how could it be executed? (2nd) Would an appeal lie against it? And (3rd) if so, to what Court?

8. If an order has been made in a suit in which a minor is concerned, without the minor being represented by a next friend or guardian, how may the Court deal with the matter, and what order may it make as to costs ?

9. How may the credit of a witness be impeached? May the party who has called a witness afterwards impeach his credit? If so, under what circumstances?

10. Under what circumstances may a Court before final judgment issue a warrant (1) to arrest a defendant? (2) to attach his property? 11. What is a public charity? What remedy does the law provide in case of a breach of trust in the administration of a public charity P

12. Draw an ordinary plaint by the owners of a cargo totally destroyed by fire against the insurers.

CRIMINAL LAW.

Examiner-MR. B. L. GUPTA, C. S.

1. What provisions, if any, are there in the I. P. Code specially affecting persons who own, occupy, or have an interest, in land?

2. Define "mischief." May a person commit mischief on his own property? Give reasons and illustrations.

3. Define "wrongful gain," "wrongful loss," "dishonesty" and "good faith."

4. Uuder what limitations, if any, are minors criminally respon sible for their acts, and what application is there of the doctrine of burden of proof to this subject?

5. To what extent, if at all, and under what limitations, if any, is a wrongful act, if done under compulsion, free from criminality?

6. What offence or offences, if any, has Z committed in each of the following cases? Give reasons for your answers. (a) Intending to annoy A, Z throws dirt and brickbats into A's house. (b) Z challenges A to a duel and in fair fight and without taking any undue advantage kills A. (c) Z sets his dog at A. The dog springs on A and bites him severely. (d) Z padlocks the door of a room in the lawful possession of A, not believing in good faith that he has a right to do so, and thereby prevents A from entering the room. (e) Z finding his toddy (tári) stolen every night by some person or persons unknown, puts poison into it. A drinks it by stealth and dies in consequence. (f) Z, in payment for goods purchased by him, gives a cheque on a bank, where he has no funds, and without intending at the time to put funds there. The cheque is presented and dishonoured. (g) A owes money to several persons who apply to Z, the village chowkidar, for the recovery of their just dues. Z, without intending any gain to himself, seizes some of A's cattle, against his will, and without his consent, sells them, distributes the proceeds among the creditors, and makes over the balance to A.

7. Distinguish between summons and warrant cases, and note the principal points of difference in the procedure prescribed for the trial of the two classes of cases.

8. May a magistrate holding preliminary enquiry into a case triable by the court of sessions examine witnesses for the defence? Is he bound to do so, if the accused so desires?

9. Under what circumstances, if ever, may the evidence of witnesses examined before the committing magistrate, be referred to by the sessions judge, and his judgment grounded thereon?

10. What are the respective positions of assessors and jurors? What course or courses are open to the judge, if he differs (a) from the opinion of the former, (b) from the verdict of the latter?

B. 6. E. and L. C. E. Gxamination.

1880.

ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA.

Examiner-DR. H. W. M'CANN.

1. What is a

prime number" ? Resolve into prime factors the numbers 129600, 254016, 5775: and hence determine the L. C. M. and G. C. M. of these numbers.

2. Explain what is meant by a "vulgar fraction" and show from your explanation that of is equal to

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4. A bath is supplied with water from two pipes, one of which can fill it in 12 minutes, the other in 15 minutes: there is also a discharging pipe, which would empty it, when filled, in 10 minutes. The first pipe is open alone for 4 minutes, and then the first and second open together for one minute: if now the third pipe be opened as well, how long will it take to fill the bath?

5. A with a capital of Rs. 60,000 began business on the 1st day of January, and wishing to extend his trade, he took in B as a partner, with a capital of Rs. 50,000 on the 15th March following: and on the 27th May they admitted C as a third partner, who brought Rs. 70,000 into the concern. On taking stock at the end of the year they find the profits of the firm to be Rs. 24,850: how must this sum be divided amongst the partners?

6. If 72 men can make an embankment 324 yards long, 12 yards wide, and 8 feet high in 9 days, working 12 hours a day: how many men must be employed to make an embankment 1458 yards long, 40 feet wide, and 3 yards high, in 36 days, working 9 hours a day? (Solve this without using the Rule of Three.")

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Find the logarithm of 800/50 to the base 25.

GEOMETRY AND CONIC SECTIONS.

Examiner-DR. H. W. M'CANN.

1. If a straight line be divided into two equal, and also into two unequal parts, the squares on the two unequal parts are together double of the square on half the line and the square on the line between the points of section.

Ilustrate this from Algebra.

2. If any chord of a circle be produced until the part produced is equal to the radius, and its extremity be joined with the centre of

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