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Contract I

94 chapters · 5 modules · about 17 hours of reading

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Unit I Locked 0 of 24 read
  1. 1 Contract I: What This Paper Covers, and How to Read This Book (locked) 7 min
  2. 2 What a Contract Is, and Why the Law Enforces a Promise (locked) 8 min
  3. 3 History and Nature of a Contractual Obligation (locked) 12 min
  4. 4 The Contemporary Relevance of the Law of Contract (locked) 10 min
  5. 5 Section 2: the Interpretation Clause that Carries the Whole Act (locked) 9 min
  6. 6 Agreement, Contract, and the Difference that Decides Cases (locked) 9 min
  7. 7 Section 10: What Agreements Are Contracts (locked) 11 min
  8. 8 Proposal: What an Offer Is, and What Only Looks Like One (locked) 9 min
  9. 9 Communication of Proposal, Acceptance and Revocation (locked) 9 min
  10. 10 Revocation of Proposals and Acceptances (locked) 9 min
  11. 11 Acceptance Must Be Absolute and Unqualified (locked) 9 min
  12. 12 Acceptance by Performing Conditions, and Implied Promises (locked) 8 min
  13. 13 Contracts Between Absent Parties: the Post, the Telephone and the Inbox (locked) 9 min
  14. 14 Standard Form Agreements (locked) 9 min
  15. 15 Consideration: What It Is, and the Rules It Obeys (locked) 10 min
  16. 16 Agreements Without Consideration Are Void, Unless (locked) 12 min
  17. 17 Privity of Contract and Privity of Consideration (locked) 11 min
  18. 18 E-Contracts and the Scheme of the Information Technology Act (locked) 10 min
  19. 19 Legal Recognition of Electronic Records and Electronic Signatures (locked) 10 min
  20. 20 Electronic Governance (locked) 10 min
  21. 21 Section 10A: the Validity of Contracts Formed Through Electronic Means (locked) 9 min
  22. 22 Attribution, Acknowledgment and Despatch of Electronic Records (locked) 10 min
  23. 23 Secure Electronic Records, Secure Signatures and Security Procedures (locked) 10 min
  24. 24 Clickwrap and Shrink Wrap Contracts (locked) 10 min
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  1. 25 Competency of Parties, and the Age of Majority (locked) 8 min
  2. 26 A Minor's Agreement Is Void Ab Initio (locked) 12 min
  3. 27 The Minor's Position: Necessaries, Restitution and Ratification (locked) 13 min
  4. 28 Persons of Unsound Mind, and Persons Disqualified by Law (locked) 11 min
  5. 29 Consent and Free Consent (locked) 10 min
  6. 30 Coercion (locked) 15 min
  7. 31 Undue Influence (locked) 13 min
  8. 32 Setting Aside a Contract Induced by Undue Influence (locked) 8 min
  9. 33 Fraud (locked) 12 min
  10. 34 Misrepresentation (locked) 10 min
  11. 35 Voidability of Agreements Without Free Consent (locked) 10 min
  12. 36 Mistake of Fact and Mistake of Law (locked) 13 min
  13. 37 Unlawful Consideration and Object (locked) 14 min
  14. 38 Agreements Void in Part, and Severability (locked) 9 min
  15. 39 Agreements in Restraint of Marriage (locked) 8 min
  16. 40 Agreements in Restraint of Trade (locked) 13 min
  17. 41 Agreements in Restraint of Legal Proceedings (locked) 11 min
  18. 42 Agreements Void for Uncertainty (locked) 10 min
  19. 43 Wagering Agreements (locked) 13 min
  20. 44 Contingent Contracts (locked) 11 min
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  1. 45 The Obligation to Perform, and Who Is Bound (locked) 9 min
  2. 46 Offer of Performance: Tender, and Its Effect (locked) 10 min
  3. 47 Effect of Refusal of a Party to Perform Wholly (locked) 10 min
  4. 48 By Whom a Contract Must Be Performed (locked) 8 min
  5. 49 Joint Liabilities and Joint Rights (locked) 13 min
  6. 50 Time and Place for Performance (locked) 11 min
  7. 51 Performance of Reciprocal Promises (locked) 12 min
  8. 52 Time as the Essence of the Contract (locked) 12 min
  9. 53 Impossibility of Performance, and Frustration (locked) 12 min
  10. 54 The Doctrine of Frustration in Indian Law (locked) 10 min
  11. 55 Reciprocal Promises to Do Legal and Illegal Things (locked) 8 min
  12. 56 Appropriation of Payments (locked) 9 min
  13. 57 Discharge by Agreement: Novation, Rescission and Alteration (locked) 9 min
  14. 58 Remission and Waiver of Performance (locked) 9 min
  15. 59 Consequences of Rescission, and Restoration of Benefit (locked) 11 min
  16. 60 Communicating Rescission, and the Promisee's Neglect (locked) 9 min
  17. 61 Discharge of a Contract: the Whole Picture (locked) 9 min
  18. 62 Breach of Contract, Actual and Anticipatory (locked) 10 min
Unit IV Locked 0 of 6 read
  1. 63 Compensation for Loss or Damage Caused by Breach (locked) 11 min
  2. 64 Remoteness of Damage, and the Duty to Mitigate (locked) 11 min
  3. 65 Liquidated Damages and Penalty (locked) 17 min
  4. 66 Compensation to a Party Rightfully Rescinding (locked) 9 min
  5. 67 Types of Damages, and the Remedies for Breach (locked) 11 min
  6. 68 Quasi Contracts: Obligations Resembling Those Created by Contract (locked) 13 min
Unit V Locked 0 of 26 read
  1. 69 The Origin of Specific Relief as an Equitable Relief (locked) 11 min
  2. 70 The Scheme of the Specific Relief Act 1963 (locked) 10 min
  3. 71 Recovering Possession of Immovable Property (locked) 11 min
  4. 72 Recovering Possession of Movable Property (locked) 10 min
  5. 73 Specific Performance After 2018: the Rule, Not the Discretion (locked) 14 min
  6. 74 Defences in Suits for Relief Based on Contract (locked) 9 min
  7. 75 Contracts Connected with Trusts, and Specific Performance of Part (locked) 13 min
  8. 76 Rights of a Purchaser or Lessee Against a Person with No Title (locked) 11 min
  9. 77 Contracts That Cannot Be Specifically Enforced (locked) 11 min
  10. 78 The Court's Power to Engage Experts (locked) 10 min
  11. 79 Who May Obtain, and Against Whom It May Be Enforced (locked) 12 min
  12. 80 Personal Bars to Relief (locked) 13 min
  13. 81 Substituted Performance of Contract (locked) 11 min
  14. 82 Infrastructure Projects, Special Courts and Expeditious Disposal (locked) 11 min
  15. 83 Compensation With or Instead of Specific Performance (locked) 14 min
  16. 84 Specific Performance of Awards and Testamentary Directions (locked) 7 min
  17. 85 Rectification of Instruments (locked) 11 min
  18. 86 Rescission of Contracts (locked) 14 min
  19. 87 Cancellation of Instruments (locked) 12 min
  20. 88 Declaratory Decrees (locked) 11 min
  21. 89 Preventive Relief, and the Kinds of Injunction (locked) 9 min
  22. 90 Perpetual and Mandatory Injunctions (locked) 11 min
  23. 91 Damages in Lieu of, or in Addition to, an Injunction (locked) 8 min
  24. 92 When an Injunction Cannot Be Granted (locked) 11 min
  25. 93 Injunction to Perform a Negative Agreement (locked) 11 min
  26. 94 The Closing Sections of the Act, and What Was Repealed (locked) 9 min

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