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What is a Contract?
When Consideration
PROPOSAL PROMISE AGREEMENT
Accepted
Promisor Promisee
Enforceable at the
option of one or more
Enforceable by Law Not Enforceable by Law parties but not at the
[S. 2(h)] [S. 2(g)] option of other(s)
[S. 2(i)]
When the person to whom the proposal is made signifies his assent thereto, the
proposal is said to be accepted. [S. 2(b)]
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What is Promise?
When
PROPOSAL PROMISE
Accepted
Promisor Promisee
What is an Agreement?
When Consideration
PROPOSAL PROMISE AGREEMENT
Accepted
Promisor Promisee
AGREEMENT: Every promise and every set of promises, forming the consideration
for each other, is an agreement [S. 2(e)]
Consideration
CONSIDERATION: When, at the desire of the promisor, the promisee or any other
person has done or does or promises to do, something, such act or abstinence or
promise is called a consideration for the promise. [S. 2(d)]
Past Consideration: If the act has been done before any promise is made, it is called
past consideration and a past consideration is no consideration.
Executed Consideration: means an act which has been done in response to a positive
promise.
What is a Contract?
When Consideration
PROPOSAL PROMISE AGREEMENT
Accepted
Promisor Promisee
Enforceable at the
option of one or more
Enforceable by Law Not Enforceable by Law parties but not at the
[S. 2(h)] [S. 2(g)] option of other(s)
[S. 2(i)]
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Mistake of Fact or Foreign Law [S. 20, 22] Void [S. 20, 22]
Fraudulent
Agreements
Based on Mistake of Fact or mistake of Foreign Law [S. 20, 21]
With unlawful object or consideration [S. 24]
Without consideration [S. 25]
In restraint of Marriage [S. 26]
In restraint of Trade [S. 27]
In restraint of Legal Proceedings [S. 28]
Uncertain [S. 29]
By way of Wager [S. 30]
Contingent on impossible events [S. 36]
To do impossible acts [S. 56]
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Compensation
In case of rescinding a Voidable Contracts [S. 19, 19A, 39]
A person who rightfully rescinds a contract is entitled to compensation for any
damage which he has sustained through the non-fulfilment of the contract. [S. 75]
Such person shall restore benefits, if received any, to the other party. Other party
need not perform any promise therein. [S. 64]
Quasi Contracts
Some obligations are neither contracts nor torts but justice
require them to be fulfilled. Such situations resemble like
partial contracts.
[S. 68] Claims for necessaries supplied to person incapable of contracting on his
account
[S. 69] Reimbursement of person paying money due by another, in payment of
which he is interested
[S. 70] Obligation of person enjoying benefit of non-gratuitous act
[S. 71] Responsibility of finder of goods as bailee
[S. 72] Liability of person to whom money is paid, or thing delivered by mistake
or under coercion