B.Com (Programme), Semester I, DSC-1.2
Business Laws
149 answers across 4 recent sittings and 4 older papers.
- answers
- 149
- papers
- 8
- topics ranked
- 19
The whole Business Laws syllabus in short notes, in order, with every topic linked to its past DU questions.
Current syllabus UGCF, 2022 onwards
Older papers CBCS syllabus, 59 answers; not counted in Where the marks are
- 2022CBCS2022, set B paper
28 question parts, paper 55428 being checked - 2022CBCS2022, set A paper
20 question parts, paper 68520 being checked - 2021CBCSMay–June 2021 (old course) paper
6 question parts, paper number not printed6 solved - 2020CBCSAugust 2020, open book (old course) paper
12 question parts, paper number not printed12 solved - 2019CBCSMay–June 2019 paper
22 question parts, paper 315620 solved2 being checked - 2018CBCSMay–June 2018 paper
26 question parts, paper 788126 being checked - 2017CBCSMay–June 2017 paper
22 question parts, paper 185521 solved1 being checked - 2016CBCSMay–June 2016 paper
20 question parts, paper 661320 being checked
Every topic, every paper
12 papers from 2016 to 2025, older syllabus included. Open a topic for its marks paper by paper.
- Contract of sale, goods and property12/122 as OR
- LLP: partners, designated partners, liability, whistle-blowing10/121 as OR
- Conditions, warranties and caveat emptor9/122 as OR
- Contract: nature, kinds, offer and acceptance9/123 as OR
- Legality of object and void agreements9/125 as OR
- Unpaid seller9/126 as OR
- LLP: nature, features, comparisons, small LLP8/121 as OR
- LLP: incorporation, registration, name, office8/123 as OR
- Agency8/125 as OR
- Conversion into LLP8/126 as OR
- Indemnity and guarantee7/123 as OR
- Bailment and pledge6/122 as OR
- Free consent6/122 as OR
- Consideration6/124 as OR
- Capacity: minors5/122 as OR
- Performance and discharge of contract5/122 as OR
- Transfer of title by non-owners5/122 as OR
- Quasi-contracts3/12
- Breach and remedies2/12
AskedOnly as an OR choiceNot askedCurrent-syllabus paper
Study order
Learn the topics in this order. Each one shows the marks it adds to a 90-mark paper on top of the topics above it, from the 4 current-syllabus papers (March 2023 to December 2025). An OR choice counts once.
Learn firsteach adds 9 marks or more
- 1adds +10.510.5
- 2adds +10.521
- 3adds +10.531.5
Subtotal, 3 topics31.5 of 90 marks
Then these3 to 9 marks each
- 4adds +7.539
- 5adds +7.546.5
- 6adds +4.551
- 7adds +354
- 8adds +4.558.5
- 9adds +361.5
- 10adds +364.5
Subtotal, 10 topics64.5 of 90 marks
If time allowsunder 3 marks each
- 11adds +1.566
- 12adds +1.567.5
- 13adds +1.569
- 14adds +1.570.5
Total, 14 topics70.5 of 90 marks
The other 19.5 marks of a typical paper sit in parts that mix several topics, or none of the named ones.
Pick one of each pair
The first topic only comes up as the OR choice against the second, so one of the two is enough.
Doing every question in the order once, at exam pace, takes about 22 h 12 m. Averages over past papers, not promises.
Turn it into a day-by-day planNot on the ladder not ranked; the reason is against each
- Short notes and true or false across several topicsspans several topics at once (short notes, true or false)
- LLP: taxation, accounts, solvency statement and auditis from the older CBCS syllabus and not in the current one
- IT Act: digital and electronic signatures, keys, hash functionis from the older CBCS syllabus and not in the current one
- IT Act: cyber contraventions and offences, adjudication, Appellate Tribunalis from the older CBCS syllabus and not in the current one
- IT Act: certifying authorities, Controller, subscribers, signature certificatesis from the older CBCS syllabus and not in the current one
- IT Act: objects, scope, e-governance, electronic recordsis from the older CBCS syllabus and not in the current one
- LLP: winding up and dissolutionis from the older CBCS syllabus and not in the current one
Question by question
The topics each question has asked in the 4 current-syllabus papers (March 2023 to December 2025). The faded squares are the 8 old-syllabus papers (2016–22): their questions were numbered differently, so they show only whether a topic came up.
Question 1
- Contract: nature, kinds, offer and acceptance, asked in 3 of the 4 papers; came up in 6 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Capacity: minors, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 3 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Free consent, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 4 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Consideration, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 4 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Legality of object and void agreements, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 6 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
Question 2
- Bailment and pledge, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 3 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Contract: nature, kinds, offer and acceptance, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 6 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Indemnity and guarantee, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 4 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Legality of object and void agreements, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 6 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Agency, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 5 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Breach and remedies, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 1 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Consideration, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 4 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Performance and discharge of contract, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 4 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Quasi-contracts, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 2 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
Question 3
- Contract of sale, goods and property, asked in 3 of the 4 papers; came up in 8 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Conditions, warranties and caveat emptor, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 5 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Unpaid seller, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 6 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Agency, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 5 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Bailment and pledge, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 3 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- LLP: partners, designated partners, liability, whistle-blowing, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 6 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Transfer of title by non-owners, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 2 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
Question 4
- LLP: nature, features, comparisons, small LLP, asked in 3 of the 4 papers; came up in 5 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Conditions, warranties and caveat emptor, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 5 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- LLP: incorporation, registration, name, office, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 5 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- LLP: partners, designated partners, liability, whistle-blowing, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 6 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Transfer of title by non-owners, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 2 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Contract of sale, goods and property, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 8 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Conversion into LLP, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 5 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Unpaid seller, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 6 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
Question 5
- LLP: incorporation, registration, name, office, asked in 3 of the 4 papers; came up in 5 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- LLP: partners, designated partners, liability, whistle-blowing, asked in 3 of the 4 papers; came up in 6 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Conversion into LLP, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 5 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- LLP: nature, features, comparisons, small LLP, asked in 2 of the 4 papers; came up in 5 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Agency, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 5 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
- Indemnity and guarantee, asked in 1 of the 4 papers; came up in 4 of the 8 old-syllabus papers
AskedOnly as the OR choiceNot askedCame up in an old-syllabus paper