DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018.
Third Semester
BUSINESS LAWS
(Upto 2012-13 Academic Year and 2013 Calendar Year)
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
1. What do you understand by performance of a contract?
2. Write short notes on 'agency by estoppel'.
3. What are the modes of delivery of goods while performing
a contract of sale?
4. What are the essential characteristic features of a
negotiable instrument?
5. Explain what test would you apply to determine the
existence of partnership?
6. What are the exceptions to the rule of supremacy of the
majority of shareholders?
7. What are the popular types of marine insurance?
8. What is prospectus and what are its contents?
Sub. Code
35
DE-4200
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SECTION B — x 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
9. State briefly the various modes in which a contract may
be discharged.
10. Explain the distinctions between a contract of indemnity
and a contract of guarantee.
11. Discuss the rights and duties of a common carrier.
12. Brief the fundamental principles of life insurance.
13. State the various ways of dissolution of a firm.
14. Discuss the requisites of a valid general meeting as per
the Companies Act, 1956.
15. Discuss the different ways by which an agency can be
terminated.
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