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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Contract Act, 1872 Section 38

EFFECT OF REFUSAL TO ACCEPT OFFER OF PERFORMANCE Where a promisor has made an offer of performance to the promisee, and

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Contract Act, 1872 Section 38 is part of Contract Act, 1872 - EFFECT OF REFUSAL TO ACCEPT OFFER OF PERFORMANCE Where a promisor has made an offer of performance to the promisee, and. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) it must be unconditional :

(2) it must be made at a proper time and place, and under such circumstances that the person to whom it is made may have a reasonable opportunity of ascertaining that the person by whom it is made is able and willing there and then to do the whole of what he is bound by his promise to do:

(3) if the offer is an offer to deliver anything to the promisee, the promisee must have a reasonable opportunity of seeing that the thing offered is the thing which the promisor is bound by his promise to deliver. An offer to one of several joint promisees has the same legal consequences as an offer to all of them.

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What does Contract Act, 1872 Section 38 provide?

Section Section 38 of the Contract Act, 1872 (EFFECT OF REFUSAL TO ACCEPT OFFER OF PERFORMANCE Where a promisor has made an offer of performance to the promisee, and) is reproduced on this page as part of the Contract Act, 1872. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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