Question

Principle: Property consists of right to posses, right to use, right to alienate and right to exclude others. Sale is complete when property gets transferred from the seller to the buyer.
Facts: ‘A’ sold his car to ‘B’ B requested A to keep the car in his care on behalf B for one month. A agreed.
This question consists of legal principle(s) (hereinafter referred to as ‘principle’) and facts. Such proposition may or may not be true in the real and legal sense, yet you have to conclusively assume them to be true for the purposes of this section. Principles have to be applied to the given facts to arrive at the most reasonable conclusion. Only one of the alternatives, i.e., (A), (B), (C), or (D) is the most reasonable conclusion. In other words, in answering the following questions, you must not rely on any principle except the principles that are given herein below for every question. Further you must not assume any facts other than those stated in the question. The objective of this section is to test your ability in legal aptitude, study of law, research aptitude and problem solving ability even if the 'most reasonable conclusion‘ arrived at may be absurd or unacceptable for any other reason.

• A. Sale of car is complete.
• B. Sale of car is not complete.
• C. Sale will be completed when B keeps the car in his own care.
• D. Sale will be automatically completed after the expiry of one month.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

The correct option is (A): Sale of car is complete.

Answer 2

The principle defines property as consisting of the right to possess, use, alienate (transfer), and exclude others, and says a sale is complete once these rights transfer from seller to buyer. A sold the car to B, and B then asked A to physically keep the car for a month on B's behalf, which A agreed to. Let's check each option against this principle.

1. Sale of car is complete: The facts state plainly that A "sold his car to B," meaning ownership, and with it the rights to possess, use, alienate and exclude others, transferred to B at that point. A keeping physical custody afterward is only a separate care arrangement on B's behalf, it does not undo the sale that already happened.
2. Sale of car is not complete: This would only be true if the rights of ownership had not yet passed to B, but the facts describe the sale as already done, with the custody arrangement coming afterward as a distinct, later step.
3. Sale will be completed when B keeps the car in his own care: This wrongly treats physical possession by the buyer as the trigger for completing the sale, but the principle defines sale completion by the transfer of ownership rights, not by where the car is physically kept.
4. Sale will be automatically completed after the expiry of one month: There is nothing in the principle or the facts suggesting the sale is delayed until the one month custody period ends, the sale is described as already having happened before that arrangement began.

Since the facts describe the sale as already having taken place, with A retaining the car afterward only as a caretaker on B's behalf, the sale of the car is complete.

Therefore, the correct answer is sale of car is complete.

Answer 3

The principle sets up a conditional test: property consists of the rights to possess, use, alienate and exclude others, and a sale is complete precisely when this bundle of rights passes from seller to buyer, regardless of who physically holds the item afterward. Applying this test to the facts, the facts state that A sold his car to B, and only afterward does B ask A to keep the car in his care for a month. Let's test each option against this rule.

1. Sale of car is complete: The rule is satisfied the moment the rights of ownership pass from seller to buyer. The facts describe the sale as already having happened, "A sold his car to B", so the rights condition is met at that point, independent of where the car physically sits afterward. This option follows directly from the rule.
2. Sale of car is not complete: For this to hold, the transfer of ownership rights would have to still be pending, but the facts assert the sale as a completed past event before the custody arrangement is even mentioned. This option requires treating the rule's condition as unmet when the facts say otherwise.
3. Sale will be completed when B keeps the car in his own care: This option ties completion of sale to physical possession by the buyer, but the rule's condition is the transfer of ownership rights, not physical location of the item. Since the facts already show the ownership rights transferred before any mention of custody, this option misapplies the rule's own condition.
4. Sale will be automatically completed after the expiry of one month: This option makes completion depend on the passage of time tied to the custody arrangement, but the rule's condition concerns only the transfer of ownership rights, which the facts show already occurred before the one month arrangement began. There is no basis in the rule for delaying completion to a later date.

Since the facts place the transfer of ownership rights before the custody arrangement, the rule's condition for a complete sale is already satisfied, and the later care arrangement does not undo it.

Therefore, the correct answer is sale of car is complete.