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The answers in this volume state the law as it stands today, not as it stood when this paper was set. That matters in this subject: the Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018, took effect on 1 October 2018 and rewrote Sections 10, 14, 16 and 20, so specific performance is now the rule rather than a discretionary remedy. Where a question asks about a provision that has since been replaced, the answer gives the provision as it then stood and the present position, and says which is which. A repeated question from an older paper can therefore be answered from these pages as they are written.
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The questions below are the paper as the University of Mumbai set it at the Nov 2011 examination, in the order it was set.
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SECTION I
Answer the following
all 10 · 20 Marks
1.Who is a Promisor and who is a Promisee under Indian Contract Act?[2]
Answer
Section 2(c) of the Indian Contract Act, 1872: "The person making the proposal is called the promisor, and the person accepting the proposal is called the promisee."
So the promisor is the one who makes the promise. The promisee is the one to whom it is made and who accepts it. In most contracts each party is both. A seller promises to deliver goods and is the promisor of that promise. The buyer promises to pay the price and is the promisor of that promise. Each is the promisee of the other's promise.
The promisee need not himself give the consideration. Under Section 2(d) it may come from "any other person". In Chinnaya v. Ramayya (1882 Mad) the brother was the promisee of his niece's promise to pay him an annuity, though the consideration came from his sister. He could sue as promisee.
The terms matter for the rules that follow. Only the promisee can release or extend the time for performance (Section 63). And a promise must be performed by the promisor himself where the parties intended it, as in a contract for personal skill (Section 40). Otherwise his representatives or an agent may perform it.
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