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Book Description
A contract is an agreement giving rise to obligations which are enforced or recognised by law. The Indian Contract Act 1872 originating as a regulatory process modelled in English common law to guide the realm of trade and commerce, evolved by the specific needs of our country and now growing in complexity and sophistication with India participating closely in global transactions as a member of WTO, makes a fascinating subject of juristic study for all.
Spectrum of the work
The Second Edition of this classic treatise, which is an outcome of scholarship and sustained labour of the learned author, deals with sections 1 to 75 of the Indian Contract Act. The growth of the law with the impact it had of the English common law and the Indian adaptation thereto makes a special feature combining the best of both the schools of thought and the author referred to those distinct aspect, wherever it is needed to understand the basic tenets of the law. In order to illustrate the subject and chart the basic principles of law of contract the erudite author has succinctly quoted from the leading case laws of different High Courts and the Supreme Court of India.
Critical analysis
The wok takes the readers through all the areas of application of the law of contract. While dealing with the subject author has touched every stone of it, such as • the concept of mistake under the common law • effect of fraudulent representation • right of the third party • doctrine of undue influence • effect of fraud, coercion and misrepresentation • family settlements • marriage brokage contract • contract with enemy • joint right and joint liabilities • quasi-contract • promissory estoppel, etc.
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Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Formation of Contract
Chapter 3. Acceptance
Chapter 4. Communication of proposal, Acceptance and Revocation
Chapter 5. Contracts with the Government
Chapter 6. Agreement
Chapter 7. Consent
Chapter 8. Mistake
Chapter 9. Consideration
Chapter 10. Lawful Consideration and Lawful Object
Chapter 11. Public Policy
Chapter 12. Agreements Specifically Declared void
Chapter 13. Discharge by Performance
Chapter 14. Discharge by Agreement
Chapter 15. Discharge by Impossibility
Chapter 16. Discharge by Breach
Chapter 17. Rules as to Appropriation of Payment
Chapter 18. Rules relating to joint Rights and Joint Liabilities
Chapter 19. Contingent Contract
Chapter 20. Quasi-Contract
Chapter 21. The Doctrine of Promissory Estoppel
Appendix – The Indian Contract Act, 1872
Index
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Author Details
S.S. Ujjannavar, Advocate, Former Principal of G.K. College Hubli
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