Age of Majority (Mentioned in different books):

In Avtar Singh's book, the position of a minor has been stated in terms of its age and the effects of
minor contract.

It says that the age of majority has been nowhere mentioned except in The Indian Majority Act,
1875, S. 3, which reads: "Every person domiciled in India shall be deemed to have attained his
majority when he shall have completed his age of eighteen years, and not before. In the case,
however, of a minor of whose person or property or both a guardian has been appointed by a court,
or of whose property the superintendence is assumed by a court of wards, before the minor has
attained the age of eighteen years when he has completed the age of 21 years.

Major mentions to be included in the paper but in a summarised way:

(pollock and Mulla )

 No person is competent to contract who is not of the age of majority according to the law to
which he is subject; in other words, a minor is not competent to contract. This proposition is
capable of two constructions: either that a minor is absolutely incompetent to contract, in
which case his agreement is void, or that he is incompetent to contract only in the sense that
he is not liable on the contract though the other party is, in which case there is a voidable
contract.

 But there is nothing in the Indian Contract Act correspon¬ ding to the rule of English law
(saved by the Infants Relief Act, 1874) which makes a contract for the infant’s benefit
enforceable; all contracts in India made by an infant are void. In Raj Raniy . Prcrn Adib™ a
film producer entered into an agreement with a minor girl to act in a fiim, and the same
agreement was entered into by the father of the minor on her behalf with the producer. On a
breach of the agreement, the minor sued the producer through her father as next friend.
Desai J. held that the agreement with the father was void, seeing that the con¬ sideration
moving from the father was the minor’s promise to act, and as the minor could not in law
promise, there was no consideration. On the other hand, had the consideration moved from
the father in the shape of an undertaking by him that his daughter should act, the father
could have sued, but could recover only the damages he had suffered.