LEGAL APTITUDE AND LOGICAL REASONING

LEGAL
APTITUDE
AND
LOGICAL
REASONING




Lesson


1 Indian Constitution 189

2 Elements of General Laws 215

A. Indian Contract Act

B. Law Relating to Torts
3. Elements of Company
Secretaries Legislation 252
4. Elements of Company Law 262
5. Legal Reasoning 291
6. Logical Reasoning 306
7. Verbal Reasoning 362
8. Non-Verbal Reasoning 401




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CONTENT

S. No. Lesson Topics Covered

Part A - Legal Aptitude

1. Indian Constitution • Preamble

• Citizenship

• Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Duties

• Directive Principles of State Policy

• State under Constitution

• President and Governors

• Council of Ministers and Prime Minister

• Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and Legislative Assembly,
Legislative Council

• Supreme Court and High Courts

• Landmark Amendment in Constitution

• List of subjects-Centre, State and Concurrent

2 Elements of General Laws A. Law of Contract
(Indian Contract Act and
Law of Torts) • Offer, Acceptance, Consideration and Competency to
Contract.
• Agreement
• Types of Contract: Void, Voidable, Unenforceable
• Performance of Contract
• Frustration of Contract
• Quasi Contract
• Breach of Contract and Remedies
B. Law of Torts
• Basics of Torts
• Specific Defenses
• Nuisance and Negligence
• Strict, Absolute and Vicarious Liability
• Trespass

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• Malicious Prosecution

3 Elements of Company • The Institute of Company Secretaries of India
Secretaries Legislation
• Vision, Mission, Motto and Core Values of the Institute

• Company Secretary under Company Secretaries Act,
1980.

• Functions of Company Secretary under the Companies
Act, 2013

• Role of Company Secretary in Employment

• Role of Company Secretary in Practice

4 Elements of Company Law • Meaning and Nature of Company

• Types of Companies

• Incorporation of a Company

• Types of capital

• Board of Directors - (Concept, Appointment
and Removal of Directors)

• Board Meetings & Shareholders Meetings

• Corporate Social Responsibility

• Business Ethics

• Ethical Dilemma

5 Legal Reasoning • Legal Fundamentals and Terms

• Legal Problems – Reading and understanding a case

• Legal Terminology and Maxims

• Legal Reasoning-

(a) Reasoning by Analogy

(b) Inductive and Deductive Reasoning

• Questions of Fact (or factual issues)

• Questions of Law (or legal issues)

• Landmark Judgments of Supreme Court and High Court

• Reading Comprehension

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Part B - Logical Reasoning

6 Logical Reasoning • Calendars
• Cause and Effect Reasoning
• Clocks
• Coding and Decoding

• Deriving Conclusion from Passages
• Drawing Inference
• Number Test
• Sequence and Series
• Statement and Assumptions
7 Verbal Reasoning • Alphabet Test
• Alpha Numeric Sequence Puzzle
• Analogy
• Assertion and Reason
• Blood Relations
• Decision Making
• Inserting Missing Characters
• Logical Sequence Test
• Logical Venn Diagram
• Number, Ranking and Time Sequence Test
• Syllogism
• Truth Tellers and Liars
8 Non-Verbal Reasoning • Analytical Reasoning
• Classification
• Completion of Incomplete Pattern
• Figure Matrix
• Grouping of Identical Figures
• Mirror Image
• Rule Detection
• Numeric and Alphabet Series