AaptPrep Indian Contract Act

An agreement enforceable by law is:

• A voidable contract

• Void

• A contract

• A void contract

In order to convert a proposal into a promise, the acceptance must:

• Be absolute and qualified.

• Be expressed in some usual and reasonable manner, unless the proposal prescribes the manner in which it is to be accepted.

• Be absolute and unqualified

• Both B and C only.

An agreement was entered into with the minor. This is agreement is:

• Void

• Voidable

• Bad

• Void ab initio

Where both the parties to any agreement are under a mistake as to a matter of fact essential to the agreement,

• The agreement is voidable.

• The agreement can’t be enforceable at law.

• The agreement is void.

• The agreement is not void.

A, a builder, contracts to erect and finish a house by the first of January, in order that B may give possession of it at that time to C, to whom B has contracted to let it. A is informed of the contract between B and C. A builds the house so badly that, before the first of January, it falls down and has to be rebuilt by B, who in consequence, loses the rent which he was to have received from C, and is obliged to make compensation to C for the breach of his contract.

• A must make compensation to B for the cost of rebuilding the house

• A must make compensation to B for the rent lost

• A must make compensation to B for the compensation made to C

• All of them

A, a merchant in England, directs B, his agent or Bombay, who accepts the agency, to send him 100 bales of cotton by a certain ship. B, having it in his power to send the cotton, omits to do so. The ship arrives safely in England. Soon after her arrival, the price of cotton rises.

• B is not bound to make good to A profit which he might have made by 100 bales of cotton at the time the ship arrived

• B is bound to make good to A any profit he might have made by the subsequent rise

• B is bound to make good to A profit which he might have made by 100 bales of cotton at the time the ship arrived. But not any profit he might have made by the subsequent rise

• All of these

A, a singer, contracts with B, the manager of a theatre, to sing at his theatre for two nights in every week during the next two months, and B engages to pay her 100 rupees for each night’s performance. On the sixth night, A wilfully absents herself from the theatre, and B, in consequence, rescinds the contract.

• B is not entitled to claim compensation the damage which he has sustained through the non-fulfilment of the contract

• B is entitled to claim compensation the damage which he has sustained through the non-fulfilment of the contract

• A is entitled to claim compensation the damage which she has sustained due to the rescinding of the contract by B.

• None of these

A owns a shop in Serampur, living himself in Calcutta, and visiting the shop occasionally. The shop is managed by B, and he is in the habit of ordering goods from C in the name of A for the purposes of the shop, and of paying for them out of A’s funds without A’s knowledge.

• B has no implied authority from A to order goods from C in the name of A for the purposes of the shop

• B has an implied authority from A to order goods from C in the name of A for his own purposes

• B has an implied authority from A to order goods from C in the name of A for the purposes of the shop

• None of these

A contracts to pay B a sum of money when B marries C. C dies without being married to B.

• The contract still can be forced

• The contract becomes void

• Either (A) or (B)

• None of these

A contracts to take in cargo for B at a foreign port. A’s Government afterwards declares war against the country in which the port is situated.

• The contract cannot become void when war is declared

• The contract becomes partly void when war is declared

• The contract becomes void when war is declared

• None of these