Question

Principle: An interest created, dependent upon a condition fails, if the fulfillment of the condition is impossible.
Facts: A promises to pay Rs. Ten Lakh to B on condition that he shall marry A's daughter C. At the date on which A gave Rs. Ten Lakh to B, C was dead.

• A. B's interest fails
• B. B's interest fails because of immorality
• C. B's interest fails because of prohibition by law
• D. B's interest does not fail

Hint:

When the condition becomes impossible, the related interest cannot be enforced.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

As per the principle, an interest created dependent on a condition fails if the fulfillment of that condition is impossible. In this case, the condition for B to receive the Rs. Ten Lakh was that he should marry C. However, since C is dead, the condition becomes impossible to fulfill. Therefore, B’s interest fails.
Thus, the correct answer is (A). B’s interest fails.
Option (B) is incorrect because there is no immorality involved in this situation. Option (C) is incorrect because the issue is not a legal prohibition, but the impossibility of the condition. Option (D) is incorrect because the condition’s impossibility directly results in the failure of B’s interest.

Answer 2

The principle says an interest tied to a condition fails once that condition becomes impossible to meet. Here, B's payment depended on marrying C, and C was already dead when A made the promise. Let's go through each option on its own terms.

1. B's interest fails: The condition attached to B's interest, marrying C, could never be performed because C had already died before the promise was even made. Since the condition cannot be met, the interest itself has no basis to stand on and simply fails.
2. B's interest fails because of immorality: Nothing in the facts suggests the condition itself was immoral or against public policy. Marrying a person is not an immoral act; it is the impossibility of marrying a dead person that defeats the condition, not any moral objection to the arrangement.
3. B's interest fails because of prohibition by law: There's no rule of law forbidding this marriage. The obstacle here is a plain physical impossibility, C is dead, not a legal prohibition on the marriage itself.
4. B's interest does not fail: This would only hold if the condition could still be satisfied in some way. Since C's death makes marriage impossible for good, there is no route left for B to fulfil the condition, so this option cannot be right.

The only option that fits the stated principle without adding a reason the facts don't support is the first one: B's interest fails simply because the underlying condition is impossible, with no need to dress that up as immorality or illegality.

So the correct answer is B's interest fails.

Answer 3

This problem turns on what happens to a conditional interest when the underlying condition can never be performed. Rather than testing each option against the facts one by one, it helps to ask what kind of mistake each wrong option makes.

1. B's interest fails: This is the only option that identifies the correct legal consequence, impossibility of performance, as the ground for failure, without inventing any additional reason the principle does not call for.
2. B's interest fails because of immorality: This option makes the mistake of substituting a different legal ground, immorality of the condition, for the one the principle actually addresses. Nothing about marrying a person is immoral; the option imports a concept that has no connection to the facts.
3. B's interest fails because of prohibition by law: This commits a similar error, treating a plain factual impossibility (marrying someone who has already died) as though it were a legal bar. No statute or rule forbids the marriage; the obstacle is that it simply cannot happen, which is a different category of problem from illegality.
4. B's interest does not fail: This option denies the consequence the principle expressly commands. Once a condition becomes impossible, the principle does not leave room for the interest to survive; asserting that it continues ignores the rule altogether rather than misapplying it.

Two of the wrong options invent grounds (immorality, illegality) the facts never raise, and the third simply contradicts the principle outright. Only the first option states the failure on the exact ground the principle supplies: impossibility of the condition.

Therefore, the correct answer is B's interest fails.