MCQ Collection
LAW-GAT Criminal Law MCQs
Practice LAW-GAT Criminal Law questions with answers and explanations.
Choose an option to check your answer.
A.
Murder is an aggravated form of culpable homicide
B.
They are completely unrelated offences
C.
Every culpable homicide is necessarily murder
D.
Murder is a civil offence only
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Correct Answer: A. Murder is an aggravated form of culpable homicide
Explanation:
All murder falls within culpable homicide, but not every culpable homicide amounts to murder.
Choose an option to check your answer.
A.
Only after police arrive
B.
Twenty-four hours after the incident
C.
When the reasonable apprehension of danger ends
D.
After the aggressor apologizes
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Correct Answer: C. When the reasonable apprehension of danger ends
Explanation:
Private defence exists only while the danger or reasonable apprehension continues.
Choose an option to check your answer.
A.
Only breaking a bone
B.
Causing bodily pain, disease, infirmity, or legally defined bodily injury
C.
Only permanent disability
D.
Mental annoyance without bodily effect in every case
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Correct Answer: B. Causing bodily pain, disease, infirmity, or legally defined bodily injury
Explanation:
The Penal Code recognizes several forms and degrees of hurt.
Choose an option to check your answer.
A.
Only after police arrive
B.
Twenty-four hours after the incident
C.
When the reasonable apprehension of danger ends
D.
After the aggressor apologizes
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Correct Answer: C. When the reasonable apprehension of danger ends
Explanation:
Private defence exists only while the danger or reasonable apprehension continues.
Choose an option to check your answer.
A.
Only breaking a bone
B.
Causing bodily pain, disease, infirmity, or legally defined bodily injury
C.
Only permanent disability
D.
Mental annoyance without bodily effect in every case
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Correct Answer: B. Causing bodily pain, disease, infirmity, or legally defined bodily injury
Explanation:
The Penal Code recognizes several forms and degrees of hurt.
Choose an option to check your answer.
A.
Only after police arrive
B.
Twenty-four hours after the incident
C.
When the reasonable apprehension of danger ends
D.
After the aggressor apologizes
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Correct Answer: C. When the reasonable apprehension of danger ends
Explanation:
Private defence exists only while the danger or reasonable apprehension continues.
Choose an option to check your answer.
A.
Only breaking a bone
B.
Causing bodily pain, disease, infirmity, or legally defined bodily injury
C.
Only permanent disability
D.
Mental annoyance without bodily effect in every case
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Correct Answer: B. Causing bodily pain, disease, infirmity, or legally defined bodily injury
Explanation:
The Penal Code recognizes several forms and degrees of hurt.
Choose an option to check your answer.
A.
Only after police arrive
B.
Twenty-four hours after the incident
C.
When the reasonable apprehension of danger ends
D.
After the aggressor apologizes
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Correct Answer: C. When the reasonable apprehension of danger ends
Explanation:
Private defence exists only while the danger or reasonable apprehension continues.
Choose an option to check your answer.
A.
Only breaking a bone
B.
Causing bodily pain, disease, infirmity, or legally defined bodily injury
C.
Only permanent disability
D.
Mental annoyance without bodily effect in every case
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Correct Answer: B. Causing bodily pain, disease, infirmity, or legally defined bodily injury
Explanation:
The Penal Code recognizes several forms and degrees of hurt.
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A.
Every accidental death
B.
A civil wrong without criminal consequences
C.
Only premeditated killing
D.
Causing death with the intention or knowledge specified by criminal law
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Correct Answer: D. Causing death with the intention or knowledge specified by criminal law
Explanation:
Culpable homicide is the broader category of unlawful homicide.
Choose an option to check your answer.
A.
Only breaking a bone
B.
Causing bodily pain, disease, infirmity, or legally defined bodily injury
C.
Only permanent disability
D.
Mental annoyance without bodily effect in every case
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Correct Answer: B. Causing bodily pain, disease, infirmity, or legally defined bodily injury
Explanation:
The Penal Code recognizes several forms and degrees of hurt.
Choose an option to check your answer.
A.
Every accidental death
B.
A civil wrong without criminal consequences
C.
Only premeditated killing
D.
Causing death with the intention or knowledge specified by criminal law
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Correct Answer: D. Causing death with the intention or knowledge specified by criminal law
Explanation:
Culpable homicide is the broader category of unlawful homicide.
