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1. It is true to say that natural law 6. Which of the following was traditionally
the only remedy available under the
(A) is similar to morality and common law?
Christianity
(B) is a command of the sovereign that (A) Damages
must be obeyed (B) Injunction
(C) is an instrument of social control (C) Rectification
and public order (D) Specific Performance
(D) must conform to an acceptable code
of moral behaviour
7. What is the MAIN difference between the
High Court and the Magistrates’ Court?
2. Which of the following BEST describes
literary sources of law? (A) Appeals are heard by the High
Court.
(A) Reception of law (B) Three magistrates need to sit to hear
(B) Location of the law a single case in the Magistrates’
(C) Basis of the law’s validity Court.
(D) Causative factors behind a rule (C) The Magistrates’ Court is superior
to the High Court.
(D) Cases in the High Court are
3. Primary legislation refers to legislation primarily tried by a judge and
jury.
(A) made by a government authority
(B) proposed by the Governor General
(C) created by parliament as part of its 8. Which of the following are reasons a person
inherent function may be discharged from jury service?
(D) arising from bodies which have
independent authority I. Illness
II. Criminal record
III. Ignorance of legal terms
4. The Judicature Acts of 1873 and 1875 fused
law and (A) I and II only
(B) I and III only
(A) equity (C) II and III only
(B) custom (D) I, II and III
(C) morality
(D) judicial precedent
9. John and James recently had an intense
argument in which John asserted, “I bought
5. Which of the following is NOT a maxim this property from the government a long
of equity? time ago. It is mine.”

(A) Equity is equality. The area of law in which John’s action will
(B) Delay defeats equity. be pursued is
(C) He who comes to equity must come
with clean hands. (A) public
(D) Equity was created to ease the (B) private
harshness of the common law. (C) criminal
(D) constitutional

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