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Important Questions on Legal Maxims

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Self Study Guide Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for Legal Reasoning>Chapter 6 - Legal Maxims>Practice Exercise>Q 25
"Res ispa loquitur" means:
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Self Study Guide Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for Legal Reasoning>Chapter 6 - Legal Maxims>Practice Exercise>Q 26
"Delegates non protest delegare" means?
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Self Study Guide Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for Legal Reasoning>Chapter 6 - Legal Maxims>Practice Exercise>Q 27
A "ratio decidendi" means?
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Self Study Guide Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for Legal Reasoning>Chapter 6 - Legal Maxims>Practice Exercise>Q 28
The doctrine of "res judicata" means that?
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Self Study Guide Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for Legal Reasoning>Chapter 6 - Legal Maxims>Practice Exercise>Q 29
Stare decisis means
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Self Study Guide Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for Legal Reasoning>Chapter 6 - Legal Maxims>Practice Exercise>Q 30
"Ubi jus ibi remedium" means?
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Self Study Guide Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for Legal Reasoning>Chapter 6 - Legal Maxims>Practice Exercise>Q 31
Principle Res ipsa loquiturie i.e. the thing speaks for itself.
Facts Seema got herself operated on for the removal of her uterus in the defendant's hospital, as there was diagnosed to be a cyst in one of her ovaries. Due to the negligence of the surgeon, who performed the operation, an abdominal pack was left in her abdomen. The same was removed by a second surgery.
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Self Study Guide Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for Legal Reasoning>Chapter 6 - Legal Maxims>Practice Exercise>Q 32

Qui facit per alium facit per se, i.e. he who does things through others does it himself.

Facts Nisha, the owner of a car, asked her friend Saurabh to take her car and drive the same to her office. As the car was near her office, it hit a pedestrian Srikant on account of Saurabh's negligent driving and injured him seriously. Now, Srikant files a suit for damages against Nisha. [CLAT 2013]