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(i) Agreement
(ii)Legal Obligation
Therefore,
Agreement = Offer + Acceptance
The party making the offer is known as offerer
or proposer and the party to whom the offer
is made is known as offeree. When the offeree
gives his assent to the offer he is known as
‘acceptor’
Conditions of Enforceability
According to Sec 10, “All agreements
are contracts if they are made by the
free consent of the parties
competent to contract, for a
lawful consideration and with a
lawful object and are not hereby
expressly declared to be void”.
Essentials of Contract
(i) Offer & Acceptance
(ii) An Intention to Create Legal Relations
(iii) Lawful Consideration
(iv) Capacity of Parties
(v) Free Consent
(vi) Lawful Object
(vii)Writing and Registration
(viii)Certainty
(ix) Possibility of Performance
(x) Not Expressly Declared void
Proposal or Offer
The term proposal has been defined in Sec
2(a) as: “when one person signifies to
another his willingness to do or abstain
from doing anything, with a view to
obtaining the assent of that other to
such act or abstinence, he is said to
make a proposal.”