Indian Easements Act Law 100/56 MCQ With Free Exam SET:-1

Q21. Which of the following is not an ingredient of easement ?

(A) Easement must be a fractional right
(B) Easement is a personal right
(C) The dominant and the servient tenements must be distinct
(D) Easement is an incorporeal right in-rem

Answer: Easement is a personal right

Q22. Right which cannot be acquired by prescription

(A) A right for over 5 years
(B) A right which has the effect of destroying the servient tenement
(C) A right to the free passage of light or air to an open space or ground
(D) A right to underground water not passing in a definite charmed

Answer: A right for over 5 years

Q23. Choose the correct answer

(1) Simple licence is always revocable at the will of the licensor and it is also not assignable.

(2) Simple licence is not revocable at the will of the licensor and it is assignable.

(3) In licence coupled with a grant of interest the licensor cannot in general revoke it so as to defeat the grant to which it is incident.

(4) In licence coupled with a grant of interest the licensor can in general revoke it.

(A) (1), (3)
(B) (1), (4)
(C) (2), (3)
(D) (2), (4)

Answer: (1), (3)

Q24. When did The Indian Easements Act 1882, come into force ?

(A) 1st April, 1883
(B) 1st March, 1882
(C) 1st July, 1882
(D) 23rd April, 1883

Answer: 1st July, 1882

Q25. A, the owner of a mill, has acquired a prescriptive right, to divert to his mill part of the water of a stream. A alters the machinery of his mill. He

(A) Cannot increase his right to divert water
(B) Can increase his right to divert water
(C) Needs permission from concerned authority to divert water
(D) Has no right to alter the machinery of his mill

Answer: Cannot increase his right to divert water

Q26. Which section of The Indian Easements Act 1882 deals with the Transfer of dominant heritage passes easement ?

(A) Section 17 of The Indian Easements Act 1882
(B) Section 19 of The Indian Easements Act 1882
(C) Section 14 of The Indian Easements Act 1882
(D) Section 15 of The Indian Easements Act 1882

Answer: Section 19 of The Indian Easements Act 1882

Q27. In case of customary rights, easements are . . . . . . . . rights annexed to the place in general

(A) Private
(B) Public
(C) Customary
(D) None of the above

Answer: Public

Q28. Section 25 of The Indian Easements Act 1882 deals with . . . . . . . . ?

(A) Right to alter the mode of enjoyment
(B) Liability for expenses necessary for the preservation of easement
(C) Injunction to restrain disturbance
(D) Extinction by destruction of either heritage

Answer: Liability for expenses necessary for the preservation of easement

Q29. The Limitation Act provides, “a right not arising from contract, by which one person is entitled to remove and appropriate for his own profit any part of the soil belonging to another or anything growing in, or attached to, or subsisting upon, the land of another,” What is name this right ?

(A) Limitation right
(B) Customary right
(C) Easement
(D) Appropriators’ right

Answer: Easement

Q30. Which section of The Indian Easements Act 1882 deals with Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient heritage ?

(A) Section 16 of The Indian Easements Act 1882
(B) Section 14 of The Indian Easements Act 1882
(C) Section 13 of The Indian Easements Act 1882
(D) Section 18 of The Indian Easements Act 1882

Answer: Section 16 of The Indian Easements Act 1882