Contract - I (General Principles)

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Description
'Law of Contract' is the heart of the legal framework for formation of trade, business and commercial transactions. It touches equally upon the lives of ordinary persons and the activities of small and big business. This branch of law deals with law relating to promises, their formation, performance and enforceability. It is a subject of interest of not only advocates and judges, but also of every one i.e., academicians, students, arbitrators, businessmen, corporate houses, accountants, administrators, etc. There is, perhaps, no subject which touches a person's life at more points than the Law of Contract. Its fundamental principles were evolved in England and took shape through judicial decisions over a number of centuries. In India, it was crystalised in the sections of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, which was based mainly on the English Common Law. Now, the Law of Contract consists of the Contract Act, 1872, Specific Relief Act, 1963, Sale of Goods Act, 1930 and Partnership Act, 1932. All these acts have been dealt with in these two volumes of 'Contract-I & IF in detail along with case law, illustrations and practical problems.
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Contents
Unit I    Formation of Contract
Chapter 1 :   Definition and Essentials of Contract
Chapter 2 :   Definition and Essentials of a Valid Offer
Chapter 3 :   Definition and Essentials of Valid Acceptance
Chapter 4 :   Communication of Offer, Acceptance and Revocation of Offer and Acceptance
Chapter 5 :   Consideration
Chapter 6 :   The Doctrine of Privity of Contract and Exceptions to the Privity of Contract
Chapter 7 :   Standard Form of Contract
Unit II    Capacity of Parties and Certain Concepts
Chapter 1 :   Effect of Minor's Agreement
Chapter 2 :   Contract with Insane Person or a Person With Unsound Mind or a Person
                        Non Compos Mentis
Chapter 3 :   Contracts with Persons Disqualified by Law
Chapter 4 :   Free Consent
Chapter 5 :   Coercion or Duress
Chapter 6 :   Undue Influence
Chapter 7 :   Misrepresentation
Chapter 8 :   Fraud
Chapter 9 :   Mistake
Chapter 10 :  Lawful and Unlawful Object and Various Heads of Public Policy
Chapter 11 :  Immoral, Illegal (Void), Uncertain and Wagering Agreements
Chapter 12 :  Kinds of Contracts: Contingent Contracts; Void and Voidable Contracts
Unit III    Discharge of Contracts
Chapter 1 :   Methods or Modes of Discharge of Contracts
Chapter 2 :   Discharge by Performance
Chapter 3 :   Appropriation of Payments
Chapter 4 :   Performance by Joint Promisors
Chapter 5 :   Discharge by Novation, Rescission and Alteration
Chapter 6 :   Remission
Chapter 7 :   Accord and Satisfaction
Chapter 8 :   Discharge of Contract by Impossibility of Performance and The Doctrine
                        of Frustration
Chapter 9 :   Discharge by Breach
Unit IV    Certain Relations Resembling those Created by Contract and Remedies for Breach of
                  Contract
Chapter 1 :   Quasi-Contract (Relation Resembling Contract)
Chapter 2 :   Necessaries Supplied to a Person who is Incapable of Entering into a Contract
Chapter 3 :   Payment by an Interested Person
Chapter 4 :   Liability to Pay for Non-gratuitous Acts
Chapter 5 :   Rights and Responsibility of Finder of Lost Goods
Chapter 6 :   Things Delivered by Mistake or Coercion
Chapter 7 :   Quantum Meruit
Chapter 8 :   Remedies of Breach of Contract
Chapter 9 :   Damages
Chapter 10 :   Liquidated and Unliquidated Damages and Penalty
Chapter 11 :   Duty to Mitigate (Mitigation of Damages)
Unit V    The Specific Relief Act, 1963
Chapter 1 :  Nature of Scope of Specific Relief
Chapter 2 :  Recovering Possession of Property
Chapter 3 :  Specific Performance of The Contracts
Chapter 4 :  Rectification of Instruments
Chapter 5 :  Rescission of Contracts
Chapter 6 :  Cancellation of Instruments
Chapter 7 :  Declaratory Decrees
Chapter 8 :  Preventive Relief - Injunction
Annexure
List of Books For Referencer
Subject Index
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Author Details
Dr. S.R. Myneni, M.A., M.Ed., LL.M., Ph.D., P.G. Diploma in Journalism & Mass Communication, P.G. Diploma in Econometrics, P.G. Diploma in Mathematics Ekadhika in Vedic Mathematicss, Rashtra Bhasha Praveena (Hindi) Diploma in Russian Language.