Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 21-08-23 Question

    Uploaded by

    Jay Kakadiya
    18 views1 page
    This document discusses three questions related to contracts: 1) Can an employee (Y) who found their employer's (X) brother claim a reward that X offered to anyone, even though Y found the brother in the course of their regular employment duties? 2) Is a coolie at a railway station entitled to payment from a passenger (R) if the coolie carried the passenger's luggage without being asked, but the passenger allowed it? 3) The document asks to comment on two statements about acceptance in contracts: a) acceptance must be absolute and unqualified, and b) acceptance must be in the prescribed mode.

    Original Description:

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    This document discusses three questions related to contracts: 1) Can an employee (Y) who found their employer's (X) brother claim a reward that X offered to anyone, even though Y found the brother in the course of their regular employment duties? 2) Is a coolie at a railway station entitled to payment from a passenger (R) if the coolie carried the passenger's luggage without being asked, but the passenger allowed it? 3) The document asks to comment on two statements about acceptance in contracts: a) acceptance must be absolute and unqualified, and b) acceptance must be in the prescribed mode.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    18 views1 page

    21-08-23 Question

    Uploaded by

    Jay Kakadiya
    This document discusses three questions related to contracts: 1) Can an employee (Y) who found their employer's (X) brother claim a reward that X offered to anyone, even though Y found the brother in the course of their regular employment duties? 2) Is a coolie at a railway station entitled to payment from a passenger (R) if the coolie carried the passenger's luggage without being asked, but the passenger allowed it? 3) The document asks to comment on two statements about acceptance in contracts: a) acceptance must be absolute and unqualified, and b) acceptance must be in the prescribed mode.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    of 1

    Date: 21-08-2023

    UNIT 1: NATURE OF CONTRACTS


    1. X’s brother runs away from the house. Y who is an employee of X offers to search
    for the brother and goes out for the purpose. In the absence of Y, X offers a reward
    of 500 to anyone who can either find out the brother or give clues enabling X to find
    him out. Y gets the brother back to X in ignorance of the offer for reward. Can Y
    now claim the reward?

    2. A coolie in uniform picks up the luggage of R to be carried out of the railway station
    without being asked by R and R allows him to do so. Examine whether the coolie is
    entitled to receive money from R under the Indian Contact Act, 1872
    (Nov’18 ICAI RTP)

    3. Comment on the following statements:


    (a) Acceptance must be absolute and unqualified.
    (b) Acceptance must be in the prescribed mode. (May’19 ICAI RTP)

    You might also like