AILET 2019 LLM Question Paper with answer key for online practice

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Give correct response. In Allen v. Whitehead, the defendant, an occupier and licensee of a refreshment house employed a manager for running the refreshment house. He used to visit it only once or twice a week. He had given express instructions to the manager that no prostitutes were to be allowed to congregate on the premises of the house. The manager, inspite of his instructions to the contrary, allowed some women, whom he knew to be prostitutes, to congregate on the premises. The defendant had no personal knowledge of it. Held that

The defendant was not liable but the manager was liable because the defendant had given express instructions to the manager not to allow prostitutes to congregate on his premises
The defendant was not liable for the offence of allowing prostitutes to congregate on his premises because he had no knowledge about it
The defendant was held vicariously liable for knowingly suffering prostitutes to meet and remain in the refreshment house
None of the above answer is right

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