30 MCQs on Pakistan Penal Code 1860 Chapter II Explanations

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Pakistan Penal Code MCQs

1. According to Section 8, the word "Gender" in the Pakistan Penal Code is interpreted as:
   Words importing the masculine gender include females.
2. Section 11 defines "Person" as:
   Any Company or Association, or body of persons, whether incorporated or not.
3. Section 12 defines "Public" as:
   The word "public" includes any class of the public or any community.
4. The term "Servant of the State" under Section 14 refers to:
   Any officer or servant continued, appointed or employed in India by or under the authority of the Central Government.
5. Section 19 defines a "Judge" as:
   A Judge is not only a person officially designated as a Judge, but also includes every person who is empowered by law to give a definitive judgment.
6. According to Section 21, a "Public servant" includes:
   Every officer who is in the service or pay of the Government or remunerated by fees or commission for the performance of any public duty.
7. Section 23 defines "Wrongful gain" as:
   Wrongful gain is gain by unlawful means of property to which the person gaining is not legally entitled.
8. "Dishonestly" under Section 24 means:
   Whoever does anything with the intention of causing wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss to another person.
9. The term "Fraudulently" as per Section 25 signifies:
   A person is said to do a thing fraudulently if he does that thing with intent to defraud but not otherwise.
10. Section 26, "Reason to believe" means:
    A person is said to have "reason to believe" a thing, if he has sufficient cause to believe that thing but not otherwise.
11. According to Section 27, property in possession of wife, clerk or servant:
    When property is in the possession of a person's wife, clerk, or servant on account of that person, it is in that person's possession.
12. The term "Counterfeit" in Section 28 is described as:
    A person is said to "counterfeit" who causes one thing to resemble another thing, intending by means of that resemblance to practice deception.
13. Section 29 defines "Document" as:
    A document is any matter expressed or described upon any substance by means of letters, figures, or marks intended to be used or which may be used for the purpose of recording that matter.
14. According to Section 30, "Valuable security" means:
    A document which is, or purports to be, a document whereby any legal right is created, extended, transferred, restricted, extinguished or released, or where by any person acknowledges that he lies under legal liability, or has not a certain legal right.
15. Section 31 defines "A will" as:
    The words "a will" denote any testamentary document.
16. Section 32 states that words referring to acts include illegal omissions, meaning:
    Words which refer to acts done extend also to illegal omissions.
17. According to Section 33, "Act" and "Omission" are defined as:
    The word "act" denotes as well a series of acts as a single act, and the word "omission" denotes as well a series of omissions as a single omission.
18. Section 34 covers Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention, meaning:
    When a criminal act is done by several persons in furtherance of the common intention of all, each of such persons is liable for that act in the same manner as if it were done by him alone.
19. According to Section 35, when an act is criminal by reason of being done with a criminal knowledge or intention:
    Whenever an act which is criminal only by reason of its being done with a criminal knowledge or intention is done by several persons, each of such persons who joins in the act with such knowledge or intention is liable for the act in the same manner as if the act were done by him alone with that knowledge or intention.
20. Section 36 deals with effect caused partly by act and partly by omission, meaning:
    Wherever the causing of a certain effect, or an attempt to cause that effect, by an act or by an omission, is an offence, it is to be understood that the causing of that effect partly by an act and partly by an omission is the same offence.
21. Section 37 explains co-operation by doing one of several acts constituting an offence, meaning:
    When an offence is committed by means of several acts, whoever intentionally co-operates in the commission of that offence by doing any one of those acts, either singly or jointly with any other person, commits that offence.
22. Section 38 explains that persons concerned in criminal act may be guilty of different offences, meaning:
    Where several persons are engaged or concerned in the commission of a criminal act, they may be guilty of different offences by means of that act.
23. According to Section 39, "Voluntarily" means:
    A person is said to cause an effect "voluntarily" if he causes it by means whereby he intended to cause it, or by means which, at the time of employing those means, he knew or had reason to believe to be likely to cause it.
24. Section 40 defines "Offence" as:
    The word "offence" denotes a thing made punishable by this Code.
25. Section 41 explains "Special law" as:
    A law applicable to a particular subject.
26. According to Section 42, "Local Law" means:
    A law applicable only to a particular part of Pakistan.
27. Section 43 states that "Illegal" is:
    Illegal is applicable to everything which is an offence or which is prohibited by law, or which furnishes ground for a civil action.
28. According to Section 44, "Injury" means:
    Any harm whatever illegally caused to any person, in body, mind, reputation or property.
29. Section 45 defines "Life" as:
    The word "life" denotes the life of a human being, unless the contrary appears from the context.
30. According to Section 46, "Death" refers to:
    The word "death" denotes the death of a human being, unless the contrary appears from the context.