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Q.1
Q.1: Answer any six in two sentences
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(1)What is lex loci contract?[2]
Answer
Lex loci contractus means the law of the place where the contract was made. It is a connecting factor for contracts with a foreign element.
Where a contract is made. It is made where the last act needed for a binding agreement is done. For a deed, that is the place of delivery. For a contract by post, English law treats it as made where the acceptance is posted.
Its old role. Older systems tested a contract by the lex loci contractus alone. Some writers, and the first American Restatement, did so.
Why it was given up as the general rule. The place of contracting is often a matter of chance. Take a contract made by telephone between London and Paris, or on a train passing through Germany. It has no real link with the place where it happened to be concluded.
Its present use.
- Formal validity. A contract is formally valid if it complies with the law of the place of contracting. On the better view, compliance with the proper law also suffices.
- A factor in finding the proper law. Where the parties have not chosen a law, the place of contracting is one factor in the closest-connection test. In National Thermal Power Corporation v. Singer Company, (1992) 3 SCC 551, the Supreme Court listed it among the links to be weighed.
Not the same as lex contractus. Lex contractus means the proper law of the contract, which may be a different law.
Conclusion. The lex loci contractus is the law of the place of contracting. Today it decides form and helps find the proper law, but it no longer governs the contract by itself.
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