BLS LLB 5 Years Sem 5 Contract I Solved Question Papers with Answers 2017 to 2026 - Mumbai University | munotes

The first thing to know about this paper is that it is two statutes and not one. It is called Contract I, and roughly a third of every paper is set on the Specific Relief Act, 1963, rather than on the Indian Contract Act, 1872. In the long answer section that share is often two questions out of five. The University said so itself in 2024-25, when the 75 mark paper was renamed Law of Contract and Specific Relief under code 67122, but the papers had been built that way for years before the name caught up. A student who revises offer, acceptance, consideration and free consent and stops there has prepared about two thirds of the paper.

The Specific Relief half is finite and it repeats. Specific performance and the contracts that cannot be specifically enforced; injunctions, meaning the difference between temporary and perpetual, the mandatory injunction, and the grounds on which a court refuses one; recovery of possession of immovable property under Sections 5 and 6, and of movable property under Sections 7 and 8; rectification of instruments under Section 26; rescission under Section 27; cancellation under Sections 31 and 32; and the declaratory decree under Section 34. Those nine topics account for nearly every Specific Relief question in the fifteen papers solved here.

The situational section is the part most worth preparing in advance, because it is not really unpredictable. Across these papers the same small stock of fact patterns comes round with the names changed. A passenger buys a steamer or cruise ticket with a condition printed on the back and nothing on the face to point to it. A seller conveys land knowing of a neighbour's right of passage and says nothing. A father advertises a reward for his missing son and the finder did not know of the offer. Two people agree to become partners and do not state how long the partnership will last. A sixteen year old says he is nineteen and borrows money. A customer orders a quantity of goods and telephones shortly afterwards to change it. A proposal is posted on Monday, an acceptance on Wednesday, and a revocation on Friday. Learn those seven and you will recognise most of what you are given.

Every situational question in every one of these papers is built the same way: one half asks a bookwork question and the other half asks you to apply it. What is rescission of contract, and can B get the contract rescinded. What is acceptance to a proposal, and will B succeed. What is specific performance, and can this partnership be specifically enforced. So answer the definition first and in full, because those marks are certain, and then apply it to the facts. A candidate who writes only the application is throwing away half the question.

Some of the problems are the Act's own illustrations with Indian names put on them. The May 2026 paper sets three in a row: A, B and C jointly borrow three thousand rupees and one of them is insolvent, which is the illustration to Section 43 and the answer is 1,250 rupees from B and 500 from A's estate; a promise to deliver either rice or opium, which is the illustration to Section 58; and goods resold below a fixed price by a sub-buyer, which is Dunlop against Selfridge. Reading the illustrations printed under the sections is therefore not optional revision in this subject. It is where several of the questions come from.

One point of law is easy to get wrong and it runs right through this subject. The Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018, replaced Section 20 entirely. Papers up to 2019-20 ask what the discretionary power of the court under Section 20 is, and for two of the guidelines in it, because until 2018 that section governed the court's discretion to decree specific performance. Papers from 2024-25 ask what substituted performance is, which is the new Section 20. Both are correct questions about their own periods, and the amendment also made specific performance the rule rather than a discretionary exception under Section 10. Know both versions and say which is which, because a textbook printed before 2018 will not.

Three patterns run through the folder and the codes tell you which one you are holding. Up to 2019-20 this was a 100 mark paper in three hours: ten short questions of 2 marks, short notes at 5 marks, three situational problems of 6, and four long answers of 12. From 2022-23 there is code 75812, Contract-I, 60 marks in two hours, ending with two long answers of 12 marks. From 2024-25 there is code 67122, Law of Contract and Specific Relief, 75 marks in two and a half hours, ending with three long answers of 13 marks. The 2021-22 sitting is the outlier, an online examination of twenty multiple choice questions and ten descriptive ones with no marks or duration printed on it.

Two things about the papers themselves will save you time. The two 2025-26 papers were each filed twice, once for the regular cohort and once for ATKT, and they are the same papers: Q.P. Code 01079 is both the 60:40 regular and the 60:40 ATKT paper, and Q.P. Code 95777 is both 75:25 papers. Solving one is solving both. And the 2017-18 file is not one paper but two bound together, Q.P. Code 03434 on its first two pages and Q.P. Code 26949 on the next two, each of them a complete 100 mark paper in its own right.

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