1. Introduction
2. Public law, private law and the common law
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- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Is contract law part of public law or private law & does it matter?
- 2.3 Sources of the law of civil wrongs
- 2.4 Subdivisions of the law of civil wrongs—Contract, tort, unjust enrichment and equity
- 2.5 Overlap in the application of one or more bodies of law and extending private law
- 2.6 Private law chart
- 2.7 Exercises
3. Origin and function of contract law
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- 3.1 Collaborating for survival and progress
- 3.2 Instinctive collaboration to contracts
- 3.3 Exercises
4. Formation of an agreement/ potential contract
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- 4.1 Introduction: Creating an agreement
5. Offer
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- 5.1 What is an offer?
- 5.2 Invitation to treat—Ads & displayed goods
- 5.3 Invitation to treat—Auctions & tenders
- 5.5 Exercises set 1
- 5.6 Exercises set 2
- 5.7 Examination pointers
- 5.8 Full text of leading cases
6. Acceptance
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- 6.1 Promisor—the master of the bargain
- 6.2 Acceptance must be a mirror image of the offer: counter offers
- 6.3 Motive of acceptance is irrelevant, but knowledge of the offer is essential
- 6.4 Reasonable period for acceptance
- 6.5 Acceptance must be communicated, knowledge of acceptance is not sufficient
- 6.6 Postal communication rule
- 6.7 Acceptance by performing conditions of the proposal
- 6.8 Exercises set 1
- 6.9 Exercises set 2
- 6.10 Exercise set 3
- 6.11 Examination pointers
- 6.12 Full text of leading cases
7. Unilateral contracts
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- 7.1 Unilateral offers: only one side is bound
- 7.2 Communication of acceptance by performance
- 7.3 Revocation of unilateral offers
- 7.4 Exercises
- 7.5 Examination pointers
- 7.6 Full text of leading cases
8. Requirements for an agreement to be a contract
9. Intention to create legal relations
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- 9.1 Intent and informal promises
- 9.2 Intent and puffery
- 9.3 No intent in domestic arrangements
- 9.4 Where intent exists in domestic arrangements
- 9.5 Where intent exists in informal social arrangements
- 9.6 Presumption of intent in commercial cases
- 9.7 Exercises
- 9.8 Examination pointers
- 9.10 Full text of leading cases
10. Certainty
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- 10.1 Contractual terms must be certain
- 10.2 Exercises
- 10.3 Full text of leading cases
11. Free consent
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- 11.1 One must consent and the consent must be free
12. Competency to contract
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- 12.1 Competency to contract
- 12.2 Exercises
- 12.3 Examination pointers
- 12.4 Full text of leading cases
13. Lawful consideration and object
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- 13.1 Consideration
- 13.2 Consideration must be exchanged
- 13.3 Gifts
- 13.4 Past consideration for acts done at request
- 13.5 Executed consideration for a new promise given later
- 13.6 Lawful consideration with lawful object
- 13.7 Exercises
- 13.8 Examination pointers
- 13.9 Full text of leading cases
14. Consideration: Desire of the promisor
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- 14.1 Consideration must be given ‘at the desire of the promisor’
- 14.2 When consideration is not at the desire of the promisor
- 14.3 Consideration from 'promisee or any other person'
- 14.4 Exercises
- 14.5 Examination pointers
- 14.6 Full text of leading cases
15. Consideration: Minimal, worthless and inadequate
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- 15.1 Minimal but sufficient consideration
- 15.2 Worthless consideration
- 15.3 Inadequate consideration as evidence of unequal bargaining power
- 15.4 Consideration and unilateral contracts
- 15.5 Exercises
- 15.6 Examination pointers
- 15.7 Full text of leading cases
16. Consideration: Pre-existing duties
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- 16.1 Pre-existing obligation—Subsisting obligations
- 16.2 Re-negotiation based on practical benefit
- 16.3 Practical benefit: English versus Indian law
- 16.4 Exercises
- 16.5 Examination pointers
- 16.6 Full text of cases
17. Concluding module one
18. INDEX (Full text of cases)
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- 18.1 INDEX: Full text of cases