Definition of Contract
Agreement
Enforceable by law
Scope
Proposal or offer
General offers
Offer and invitation to treat
Catalogues and Display of Goods
Announcement to hold Auction
Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS)
Offers in standard form contracts
1.Reasonable Notice of Terms
2.Theory of Fundamental Breach
3.Strict Construction
4.Liability in tort
5.Unreasonable Terms
6.Exemption Clauses and Third Parties
Acceptance
Communication to Offeror
Communication from Acceptor
When Communication not Necessary
Mode of Communication
When is contract concluded?
When Parties in Direct Communication
Absolute and unconditional
Counter proposals
Acceptance with Condition Subsequent
Provisional Acceptance
Acceptance and Withdrawal of Tenders
Lapse of offer or its revocation
AGREEMENT, CONTRACT, PROPOSAL AND ACCEPTANCE (Contd.)
Notice of revocation
Revocation of proposals
Revocation of Time-Bound Proposals
Withdrawal of General Proposals
Revocation of a Bid
Lapse of time
By failure to accept condition precedent
By death or insanity of offeror
Revocation of acceptance
CONSIDERATION
Definition
At the desire of the promisor
Act Done at Request
Promises of Charitable Nature
Unilateral Agreements
Revocation of unilateral promises
Promissory Estoppel and Government Agencies
Privity of contract and of consideration
Promisee or any other person
CONSIDERATION (Contd.)
Exceptions to consideration
Exceptions under S. 25
Natural Love and Affection
Past voluntary service
Time-barred debt
Gift actually made [S. 25 Explanation I]
Inadequacy of consideration [S. 25 Explanation II]
CAPACITY TO CONTRACT
Minor
Age of majority
Nature of minor’s agreement
Effects of minor’s agreement
No estoppel against minor
No liability in contract or in tort arising out of contract
Doctrine of Restitution
Relief under Specific Relief Act of 1963
Beneficial contracts
Contracts of Marriage
Contracts of Apprenticeship
Ordinary Trade Contracts not included in Beneficial Contracts
Option to Retire from Beneficial Contracts on Majority
Ratification
Liability for necessaries [S. 68]
Meaning of Necessaries
Nature of Liability
Persons of unsound mind
SPECIFIC RELIEF ACT, 1963 (Contd.)
Partial cancellation
Limitation
Compensation and Restitution
Declaratory decrees
Entitlement to legal character or property
Essentials to be set up for relief under Section 34
Frame of plaint
Further relief where plaintiff entitled to it (Proviso)
Parties who are bound by declaration
Amendment of plaint and limitation
Injunctions
Kinds of injunction
Temporary injunctions
Cases in which temporary injunction may be granted
For protection of interest in property
Injunction to restrain repetition or continuance of breach
Discretionary relief
Interim Injunction when perpetual injunction is prayed for
Disobedience or breach of injunction
Perpetual injunctions
Requirements for applicability
Injunction to restrain possession
Refusal of injunctive relief
Restraint on person or property outside jurisdiction
Order for rescuing arbitration process
Mandatory Injunctions
Damages in lieu of or in addition to Injunction [S. 40]
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