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Shumaila Chandni
Assistant Professor
Unit - 1
The Indian Contract
Nature
Contract
Act,of1872
Special Contracts
Classification
Offer & Acceptance
Capacity of parties to
contract
Indemnity
Free Consent
Guarantee
Consideration
Bailment & Pledge
Legality of object
Agency
Agreement declared
void
Performance of contract
Discharge of Contract
Remedies for breach of
contract
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Law of Contract
Object:
Branch of law which determines the
circumstances in which promises
made by the parties to a contract
shall
be legally
binding
them. is
Purpose
of the
law ofon
contract
to ensure the realization of
reasonable expectation of the
parties who enter into a
contract.
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Definition of Contract
Sec. 2(h) defines contract as an
agreement
enforceable
by law.
Enforceability
by Law
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Consensus ad idem
The parties to the agreement must
have agreed about the subjectmatter of the agreement in the same
sense and at the same time.
Unless there is consensus ad idem,
there can be no contract.
Hence, it is usual to employ the
language of offer and acceptance.
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Obligation
A legal tie which imposes upon a
definite person or persons the
necessity of doing or abstaining from
doing a definite act or acts.
May relate to:
Social Matters
All Matters
contracts are agreements
Legal
but
all agreements are not
necessarily contracts.
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Classification of
Contracts
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