🧠 25 MCQs – ADVERSE POSSESSION × LIMITATION ACT (TRAPS)
1. Suit for possession based on title must be filed within:
A. 3 years from dispossession
B. 6 years from knowledge
C. 12 years from date possession becomes adverse
D. 12 years from date of purchase
✅ Answer: C
📚 Article 65, Limitation Act
2. Article 64 of Limitation Act applies when suit is based on:
A. Ownership
B. Previous possession and dispossession
C. Mutation
D. Title deed
✅ Answer: B
📚 Nair Service Society v. K.C. Alexander
3. Difference between Article 64 and 65 is:
A. Parties involved
B. Relief claimed
C. Basis of suit: possession vs title
D. Period of limitation
✅ Answer: C
4. Limitation starts against true owner when:
A. Possession begins
B. Mutation is entered
C. Possession becomes hostile
D. Rent is unpaid
✅ Answer: C
📚 Khatri Hotels v. Union of India (2011)
5. Section 27 of Limitation Act provides for:
A. Bar of suit
B. Computation of time
C. Extinction of title
D. Condonation of delay
✅ Answer: C
6. Possession initially permissive becomes adverse from:
A. Date of entry
B. Date of mutation
C. Date of clear repudiation
D. Date of suit
✅ Answer: C
📚 Saroop Singh v. Banto
7. In co-ownership cases, limitation begins when:
A. One co-owner occupies
B. Rent is not paid
C. Ouster is proved
D. Mutation occurs
✅ Answer: C
📚 P. Lakshmi Reddy v. L. Lakshmi Reddy
8. Which Article applies when plaintiff was dispossessed but has no title?
A. Article 58
B. Article 64
C. Article 65
D. Article 113
✅ Answer: B
9. A person claiming adverse possession must plead:
A. Date of suit
B. Date of purchase
C. Date when possession became adverse
D. Date of mutation
✅ Answer: C
📚 Khatri Hotels v. Union of India
10. Failure to prove starting point of limitation results in:
A. Partial decree
B. Remand
C. Failure of adverse possession claim
D. Extension of time
✅ Answer: C
11. Suit filed after 12 years is always barred by limitation.
A. True
B. False
✅ Answer: B
📚 Limitation runs only when possession is adverse
12. Section 3 of Limitation Act mandates that:
A. Delay can be condoned
B. Limitation is optional
C. Court must dismiss time-barred suit
D. Limitation applies only if pleaded
✅ Answer: C
13. Possession under void sale deed becomes adverse from:
A. Date of knowledge
B. Date of sale deed
C. Date of hostile possession
D. Date of suit
✅ Answer: C
📚 Nair Service Society v. K.C. Alexander
14. Which Article governs adverse possession against private individual?
A. Article 64
B. Article 65
C. Article 112
D. Article 113
✅ Answer: B
15. Article 112 applies to suits by:
A. Private individuals
B. Companies
C. State or Central Government
D. Panchayat
✅ Answer: C
16. Period under Article 112 is:
A. 12 years
B. 30 years
C. 60 years
D. 90 years
✅ Answer: B
17. Adverse possession against Government requires:
A. Less proof
B. Same proof
C. Stricter proof
D. No proof
✅ Answer: C
📚 State of Haryana v. Mukesh Kumar
18. Limitation does not run against true owner when possession is:
A. Hostile
B. Continuous
C. Permissive
D. Exclusive
✅ Answer: C
19. A plea of adverse possession implies:
A. Admission of possession only
B. Denial of ownership
C. Admission of true owner’s title
D. Neutral stance
✅ Answer: C
📚 Mohan Lal v. Mirza Abdul Gaffar
20. Which provision bars remedy but not right?
A. Section 27
B. Section 3
C. Article 65
D. Article 64
✅ Answer: B
21. Which provision extinguishes right itself?
A. Section 3
B. Section 27
C. Article 64
D. Article 113
✅ Answer: B
22. Limitation begins in tenant cases from:
A. Date of lease
B. Date of expiry
C. Date of hostile denial of landlord’s title
D. Date of suit
✅ Answer: C
23. Adverse possession is primarily a defence because:
A. Limitation bars remedy
B. Title is extinguished only incidentally
C. Courts discourage it
D. CPC bars suits
✅ Answer: B
📚 Gurudwara Sahib v. Gram Panchayat
24. Which Article applies where possession is taken forcibly without title?
A. Article 65
B. Article 64
C. Article 58
D. Article 112
✅ Answer: B
25. Correct pairing is:
A. Article 64 – Title based suit
B. Article 65 – Possession based suit
C. Article 64 – Previous possession
D. Article 112 – Private land
✅ Answer: C
🏆 EXAMINER’S FAVOURITE TRAP
👉 Do NOT confuse Article 64 & 65
👉 Always check basis of suit
👉 Limitation starts from hostility, not entry