Property Law — CLAT Previous Year Questions
30 solved PYQs · 2017–2026 · Legal Reasoning
- Solved PYQs
- 30
- Years covered
- 2017–2026
- Avg / year
- ~3
- Subject
- Legal Reasoning
How many CLAT questions come from Property Law?
Property Law has contributed 30 questions to Common Law Admission Test papers between 2017 and 2026 — an average of about 3 questions a year. That count is measured from EByAi’s bank of 19,890 CLAT questions, not estimated from a syllabus. Every one of the 30 questions carries a written, step-by-step solution, and each is tagged to Property Law within Legal Reasoning, so you can drill this chapter across every year at once instead of hunting through paper PDFs. Practising a chapter’s full PYQ history is the fastest way to learn the patterns examiners reuse.
Sample Property Law questions from real CLAT papers
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Question 1 · CLAT 2021
Which of the following judgments is not related to property rights of daughter as a coparcener under Hindu law?- (A)Vineeta Sharma v. Rakesh Sharma, (2020) 9 SCC 1.
- (B)Danamma v. Amar, (2018) 3 SCC 343.
- (C)Prakash v. Phulavati, (2016) 2 SCC 36.
- (D)Kalindi Damodar Garde v. Manohar Laxman Kulkarni, (2020) 4 SCC 1
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Answer: (D) Kalindi Damodar Garde v. Manohar Laxman Kulkarni, (2020) 4 SCC 1Question 2 · CLAT 2021
Which of the following is the doctrine of legal fiction created to ascertain the share of the deceased in a joint property?- (A)Doctrine of Notional Partition
- (B)Doctrine of Factum Valet
- (C)Doctrine of General Partition
- (D)Doctrine of Partial Partition
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Answer: (A) Doctrine of Notional PartitionQuestion 3 · CLAT 2018
The transfer of 'spes successionis' under the Transfer of Property Act is- (A)void ab initio
- (B)voidable
- (C)perfectly valid
- (D)valid only if approved by the court.
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Answer: (A) void ab initioQuestion 4 · CLAT 2018
A mortgage by deposit of title deeds for which a loan of Rs 3 crores is raised- (A)can be effected only with the help of a written deed
- (B)only with the help of a written and attested deed
- (C)can be effected only with the help of a written, attested and registered document.
- (D)can be effected without an attested or registered document.
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Answer: (D) can be effected without an attested or registered document.Question 5 · CLAT 2018
Who defined ownership as 'a right - indefinite in point of user - unrestricted in point of
disposition - and unlimited in point of duration'?- (A)Salmond
- (B)Austin
- (C)Marx
- (D)Glanville Williams
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Answer: (B) Austin
Property Law questions by year
| Year | Questions | Share of chapter questions |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | |
| 2025 | 9 | |
| 2024 | 4 | |
| 2022 | 3 | |
| 2021 | 2 | |
| 2020 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 1 | |
| 2018 | 3 | |
| 2017 | 3 |
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How many CLAT questions have been asked from Property Law?
EByAi's bank holds 30 real CLAT questions from Property Law, asked between 2017 and 2026 — about 3 per year on average. Every count is measured from actual papers, not estimated.
Is Property Law important for CLAT?
30 questions over 9 papers make Property Law a steady-weightage chapter in CLAT Legal Reasoning. The year-wise table above shows exactly how often it appears.
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