legal reasoning and legal aptitude main different

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Legal Reasoning is the most significant component of the legal aptitude section, in terms of marks allotted. The other component is Legal Knowledge, which consists of questions based on legal facts and current events related to the field of law . ... Till 2019, CLAT entrance had a separate Legal aptitude section.

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Legal Reasoning section focuses on legal propositions, where a set of facts are given along with a principle of law. The given principle has to be applied to the facts. Below is the question given from legal reasoning section of CLAT.

Q. PRINCIPLE: Penal laws provide that whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man or woman, shall be punished for rape.

FACTUAL SITUATION: A Police Officer found a man engaged in carnal intercourse with an animal. The Police Officer arrested the man and produced him before the Court.

1. Court will punish the police officer.
2. Court will not punish the police officer.
3. Court will not punish the man for rape.
4. Court will punish the man for rape.

Legal aptitude section checks the knowledge of students on legal facts, like Indian constitution, penal code, judgements etc. Below is an example question from CLAT.

Q. Lex loci means:

1. Law of a place
2. Italian laws
3. Domestic laws
4. Latin regulations

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