Judicial Services (PCS-J) Mains — Answer Writing
A judiciary mains answer is not an essay about the law: it states the provision, applies it to the facts given, and concludes. Judgment and order writing is examined as a format in its own right, and format errors there cost marks no amount of legal knowledge recovers.
Attempt all questions. Support your answers with the relevant provisions and case law. Marks are indicated against each question.
- 1.A files a suit for specific performance of an agreement to sell. B contends that the agreement is unregistered and hence inadmissible. Decide, giving reasons.10
- 2.Frame the issues arising from the pleadings set out above and state the burden of proof on each.15
- 3.Explain the doctrine of res judicata and distinguish it from res sub judice.10
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A files a suit for specific performance of an agreement to sell. B contends the agreement is unregistered and hence inadmissible. Decide, giving reasons.
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An agreement to sell does not create any interest in property. Registration is not compulsory for an agreement to sell. So the agreement is admissible and A can get specific performance if he was ready and willing to perform his part?. Under the Transfer of Property Act a sale is a transfer of ownership for a price and it is the sale deed which requires registration, while an agreement to sell only creates a right to obtain another document in future. Since no interest in the property passes under it, the objection taken by B is not correct in law. The document can be looked into by the court for the purpose for which it is being used in this suit. The court will consider the pleadings and the evidence led by both sides and then decide whether the relief claimed should be granted to A.
- Section 49 proviso — an unregistered document may be received as evidence of a contract in a specific performance suit
- Section 16(c) as amended, and the pleading requirement
- The discretionary nature of the relief under Section 20
Model answer for this question
State Section 54 TPA (an agreement to sell creates no interest), then Section 17 read with the proviso to Section 49 of the Registration Act (an unregistered agreement is receivable as evidence of the contract in a suit for specific performance). Apply: the objection therefore fails. Then Section 16(c) — readiness and willingness must be pleaded and proved — and Section 20 discretion. Conclude with the finding and the consequential order.
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The proposition is stated; the section is not cited.
Not cited. This is the provision the objection actually turns on.
Test named without the section or the pleading requirement.
The facts are engaged and a conclusion reached.
States the outcome but not the order that follows.
PCS-J Mains at a glance
| Conducting body | State Public Service Commissions and High Courts |
|---|---|
| Mode | Handwritten in an answer booklet |
| Papers | 4 |
| Marking | PCS-J Mains — examiner criteria |
What PCS-J Mains sets
The papers you sit, and what each is worth.
Typically CPC, Contract, Transfer of Property, Specific Relief and the state's local laws.
Typically the penal code, the procedure code and the evidence law in force.
Translation, precis and composition in the state language and English.
Framing issues, findings, reasoning and the operative order.
- Marked to the PCS-J Mains scheme
- Model answer, every time
- Handwriting read from a photo
- AI viva on any topic
- Full timed papers
- Every attempt kept in your archive
- WriteA question, answered and marked.
- VivaQuestioned on Order VII Rule 11 CPC and more.
- Full paperA timed paper, one scorecard.