Indian Contract Act, 1872
Comprehensive section-wise Law of Contract MCQs for state judiciary prelims, CLAT LLM, and civil law examinations.
Statutory Chapters & Parts
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Preliminary (Sections 1–2)
Short title, extent, commencement, and statutory definitions of proposal, promise, promisor, promisee, consideration, agreement, reciprocal promises, void agreement, contract, voidable contract, and void contract
Chapter I: Of the Communication, Acceptance and Revocation of Proposals (Sections 3–9)
Communication of proposals, acceptance, and revocation, completion of communication, rules of revocation, acceptance by performing conditions or receiving consideration, and express vs implied promises
Chapter II: Of Contracts, Voidable Contracts and Void Agreements (Sections 10–30)
Competency of parties, free consent, undue influence, fraud, misrepresentation, unlawful consideration/objects, void agreements (restraint of marriage, trade, legal proceedings, uncertainty, wagering agreements), and statutory exceptions
Chapter III: Of Contingent Contracts (Sections 31–36)
Definition of contingent contract, rules of enforcement, contingent agreements on impossible events, and difference between wagering and contingent contracts
Chapter IV: Of the Performance of Contracts (Sections 37–67)
Obligation of parties, tender of performance, anticipatory breach, joint and several liability, time and place of performance, reciprocal promises, supervening impossibility/doctrine of frustration, appropriation of payments, and novation, rescission or alteration
Chapter V: Of Certain Relations Resembling Those Created by Contract (Sections 68–72)
Quasi-contracts and unjust enrichment, claim for necessaries supplied to minor or lunatic (Section 68), reimbursement of person paying money due by another (Section 69), obligation of person enjoying benefit of non-gratuitous act (Section 70), responsibility of finder of goods (Section 71), and liability for money paid or thing delivered by mistake or under coercion (Section 72)
Chapter VI: Of the Consequences of Breach of Contract (Sections 73–75)
Compensation for loss or damage caused by breach of contract (Section 73), remoteness of damage (Hadley v. Baxendale), duty to mitigate loss, compensation for breach of contract where penalty stipulated for (Section 74), liquidated damages vs penalty, earnest money forfeiture, and party rightfully rescinding contract entitled to compensation (Section 75)
Chapter VIII: Of Indemnity and Guarantee (Sections 124–147)
Contract of indemnity defined (Section 124), rights of indemnity-holder (Section 125), contract of guarantee defined (Section 126), consideration for guarantee (Section 127), surety's liability co-extensive with principal debtor (Section 128), continuing guarantee (Section 129), revocation of continuing guarantee (Sections 130–131), discharge of surety by variance or release of principal debtor (Sections 133–139), right of surety to securities (Section 141), invalid guarantees (Sections 142–143), implied promise to indemnify (Section 145), and co-sureties contribution (Sections 146–147)
Chapter IX: Of Bailment (Sections 148–181)
Bailment defined (Section 148), bailor and bailee, delivery of goods actual/constructive (Section 149), bailor's duty to disclose faults in goods (Section 150), care to be taken by bailee (Section 151), bailee's duty to return goods and accretions (Sections 160–163), finder of lost goods rights and responsibilities (Sections 168–169), pledge/pawn defined (Section 172), pawnee's right of retainer (Sections 173–176), and pledge by person with limited interest or mercantile agent (Sections 178–179)
Chapter X: Agency (Sections 182–238)
Agent and principal defined (Section 182), who may employ agent (Section 183), who may be an agent (Section 184), consideration not necessary for agency (Section 185), express and implied authority (Section 186–187), agent's authority in emergency (Section 189), sub-agent defined (Section 191), sub-agent's responsibility and representation of principal (Section 192), substituted agent defined (Section 194), ratification of acts (Sections 196–200), termination of agency (Sections 201–210), agency coupled with interest (Section 202), agent's duty to principal and accounting (Sections 211–221), principal's duty to agent (Sections 222–225), and effect of agency on contracts with third persons (Sections 226–238)
General Principles & Miscellaneous Provisions
Core general principles of contract law, executed and executory contracts, privity of contract (Tweddle v. Atkinson) and statutory exceptions, doctrine of uberrimae fidei, standard form contracts, res ipsa loquitur, consensus ad idem, quantum meruit, non est factum, and statutory definitions
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