Property Law Question Answer Series 2: Important Questions for Exams | Part – II

Legal Bites presents Property Law Important Question-Answer Series. The questions listed here will help students study for various Competitive and University Exams. Candidates can use Legal Bites' list of questions to help them determine the most important and often asked questions and practice their aptitude and knowledge.

Answering questions is a continuous process that is an inevitable component of any test preparation, as we all know. A well-written response displays not just a candidate's knowledge but also his or her ability to tailor the content to the question's requirements.

It is vital to prepare for this exam to pass it thoroughly. To attain mastery over the subjects studied, applicants only need to keep practising these questions in the months coming up to the examinations. Following it, the candidate's confidence level, as well as their scores, will vastly improve.

Property Law Question Answer Series 2: Important Questions for Exams | Part – II

Question 1

Section 5 of Transfer of Property provides that the expression "transfer of property" means an act by which a living person conveys property, in present or in future, to one or more living persons, or to himself and one or more other living persons:-

(i) Whether the family arrangement is transferred?

(ii) Whether surrender amounts to transfer?

(iii) Whether an Idol is a living person? [MPJS 2018]

Question 2

Though the Transfer of Property Act deals with transfer intervivos, yet an interest may be created in favour of an unborn person. Discuss. [BJS 2018]

Question 3

Under what circumstances conditional transfer of property under the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 becomes void? Discuss with reference to statutory provisions and case law. [Punj JS 2003]

Question 4

A transfers the ownership of certain lands to B, C and D by way of gift with a condition that they shall not divide the property for 10 years. Examine the validity of the condition. [BJS 1977]

Question 5

Explain in brief the various modes of the transfer of immovable property. How does a mortgage differ from a gift? [RJS 1992]

Question 6

"M" a member of a housing society purchases a plot and later on sells it to "D", a non-member. Under the bye-laws of the society, such transfer is not permitted. "M" claims that the bye-law of the society infringe Section 10 of the Transfer of Property Act. Decide. [UPJS 2012]

Question 7

Can a Pardanashin lady enter into a contract of transfer of property? Has the transferee to prove any facts to uphold such transaction in Court of Law? [UPJS 1982]

Question 8

Does the Transfer of Property Act make an exception to the general rule that a person cannot confer a better title to the property than he himself has in it? If so, how do you justify the exceptions? [UPJS 2013]

Question 9

“He who is prior in time is better in law.” Explain this statement. [UPJS 2023]

Question 10

In a Mutation case after the death of the husband a compromise was entered into between the widow and husband's brother that the widow would not make a transfer of the land to any on except her husband's brother and his heirs. The mutation was ordered without any condition. The widow sold the land to an outsider. Can this condition be enforced against the transferee? [UPJS 1982]