General Riddles

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

Two lawyers were fighting against each other in a case in a courtroom. One of them is the father of the other's son. How are they related?
They are husband and wife.

I am an eight letter standard word used by almost everybody. If you take away two alphabets from me I will make a logical sequence. Who am I?
STANDARD

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
Mountain.

I don't have legs but I have hands. I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?
A clock.

A grandfather, a father and 2 sons were having tea in the garden. But there are only 3 cups on the table. Justify how.
Grandfather is the father of one son and he himself also has one son. That makes two fathers and two sons.

A woman met one of her classmates after 20 long years. After exchanging pleasantries, the first woman told the other that she has 4 children, half of them female. At this, the other woman smiled and replied, even half of her children too are female. However, she has 3 children. How is this possible?
The second woman has all female children.

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