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Title: Effect of Default as to That Promise Which Should Be First Performed, in Contract Consisting of Reciprocal Promises
State: Central
Year: 1872
.....A does not provide any cargo for the ship. A cannot claim the performance of B's promise, and must make compensation to B for the loss which B sustains by the non-performance of the contract. (b) A contracts with B to execute certain builder's work for a fixed price, B supplying the scaffolding and timber necessary for the work. B refuses to furnish any scaffolding or timber, and the work cannot be executed. A need not execute the work, and B is bound to make compensation to A for any loss caused to him by the non-performance of the contract. (c) A contracts with B to deliver to him, at a specified price, certain merchandise on board a ship which cannot arrive for a month, and B engages to pay for the merchandise within a week from the date of the contract. B does not pay within the week. A's promise to deliver need not be performed, and B must make compensation. (d) A promises B to sell him one hundred bales of merchandise, to be delivered next day, and B promises A to pay for them within a month. A does not deliver according to his promise. B's promise to pay need not be performed, and A must make compensation.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Contract Act, 1872 Section 55
Title: Effect of Failure to Perform at a Fixed Time, in Contract in Which Time is Essential
State: Central
Year: 1872
.....voidable at the option of the promisee, if the intention of the parties was that time should be of the essence of the contract. Effect of such failure when time is not essential If it was not the intention of the parties that time should be of the essence of the contract, the contract does not become voidable by the failure to do such thing at or before the specified time; but the promisee is entitled to compensation from the promisor for any loss occasioned to him by such failure. Effect of acceptance of performance at time other than that agreed upon. - If, in case of a contract voidable on account of the promisor's failure to perform his promise at the time agreed, the promisee accepts performance of such promise at any time other than that agreed, the promisee cannot claim compensation for any loss occasioned by the non-performance of the promise at the time agreed, unless, at the time of such acceptance he gives notice to the promisor of his intention to do so.1 ______________________ 1. Cf. section 62 and 63, infra.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Contract Act, 1872 Section 74
Title: Compensation for Breach of Contract Where Penalty Stipulated for
State: Central
Year: 1872
.....loan of Rs.1,000 by five equal monthly instalments, with a stipulation that, in default, of payment of any instalment the whole shall become due. This stipulation is not by way of penalty, and the contract may be enforced according to its terms. (g) A borrows Rs.100 from B and gives him a bond for Rs.200 payable by five yearly instalments of Rs.40, with a stipulation that, in default of payment of any instalment, the whole shall become due. This is a stipulation by way of penalty.] _________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 6 of 1899, section 4, for the first paragraph of section 74. 2. Added by Act 6 of 1899, section 4 3. Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "Government of India". 4. Inserted by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government".
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Contract Act, 1872 Section 231
Title: Rights of Parties to a Contract Made by Agent Not Disclosed
State: Central
Year: 1872
If an agent makes a contract with a person who neither knows, nor has reason to suspect, that he is an agent, his principal may require the performance of the contract; but the other contracting party has, as against the principal, the same rights as he would have had as against the agent if the agent had been principal. If the principal discloses himself before the contract is completed, the other contracting party may refuse to fulfil the contract, if he can show that, if he had known who was the principal in the contract, or if he had known that the agent was not a principal, he would not have entered into the contract.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Contract Act, 1872 Section 12
Title: What is a Sound Mind for the Purposes of Contracting
State: Central
Year: 1872
A person is said to be of sound mind for the purpose of making a contract if, at the time when he makes it, he is capable of understanding it and of forming a rational judgment as to its effect upon his interests. A person who is usually of unsound mind, but occasionally of sound mind, may make a contract when he is of sound mind. A person who is usually of sound mind, but occasionally of unsound mind, may not make a contract when he is of unsound mind. Illustrations A patient in a lunatic asylum, who is at intervals of sound mind, may contract during those intervals. A sane man, who is delirious from fever or who is so drunk that he cannot understand the terms of a contract or form a rational judgment as to its effect on his interests, cannot contract whilst such delirium or drunkenness lasts.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Contract Act, 1872 Section 16
Title: Undue Influence Defined
State: Central
Year: 1872
.....sum for his professional services, B employs undue influence. (c) A, being in debt to B, the money-lender of his village, contracts a fresh loan on terms which appear to be unconscionable. It lies on B to prove that the contract was not induced by undue influence. (d) A applies to a banker for a loan at a time when there is stringency in the money market. The banker declines to make the loan except at an unusually high rate of interest. A accepts the loan on these terms. This is a transaction in the ordinary course of business, and the contract is not induced by undue influence.] ______________________ 1.Substituted by Act 6 of 1899, section 2, for the original section 16.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Contract Act, 1872 Section 39
Title: Effect of Refusal of Party to Perform Promise Wholly
State: Central
Year: 1872
When a party to a contract has refused to perform, or disabled himself from performing, his promise in its entirety, the promisee may put an end to the contract, unless he has signified, by words or conduct, his acquiescence in its continuance. Illustration (a) A, a singer, enters into a contract with B, the manager of a theatre, to sing at his theatre 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. B is at liberty to put an end to the contract. (b) A, a singer, enters into a contract with B, the manager of a theatre, to sing at his theatre two nights in every week during the next two months, and B engages to pay her at the rate of 100 rupees for each night. On the sixth night A wilfully absents herself. With the assent of B, A sings on the seventh night. B has signified his acquiescence in the continuance of the contract, and cannot now put an end to it, but is entitled to compensation for the damage sustained by him through A's failure to sing on the sixth night.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionContract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 Section 30
Title: Effect of Laws and Agreements Inconsistent with This Act
State: Central
Year: 1970
(1) The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law or in the terms of any agreement or contract of service, or in any standing orders applicable to the establishment whether made before or after the commencement of this Act: Provided that where under any such agreement, contract of service or standing orders the contract labour employed, in the establishment are entitled to benefits in respect of any matter which are more favourable to them than those to which they would be entitled under this Act, the contract labour shall continue to be entitled to the more favourable benefits in respect of that matter, notwithstanding that they received benefits in respect of other matters under this Act. (2) Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as precluding any such contract labour from entering into an agreement with the principal employer or the contractor, as the case may be, for granting them rights or privileges in respect of any matter which are more favourable to them than those to which they would be entitled under this Act.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionINDIAN CONTRACT ACT, 1872 Section 17
Title: 'Fraud' defined
State: Central
Year: 1872
.....by his agent1 , with intent to deceive another party thereto or his agent, or to induce him to enter into the contract : (1) the suggestion, as a fact, of that which is not true, by one who does not believe it to be true; (2) the active concealment of a fact by one having knowledge or belief of the fact; (3) a promise made without any intention of performing it; (4) any other act fitted to deceive; (5) any such act or omission as the law specially declares to be fraudulent. Explanation.-Mere silence as to facts likely to affect the willingness of a person to enter into a contract is not fraud, unless the circumstances of the case are such that, regard being had to them, it is the duty of the person keeping silence to speak2 , or unless his silence is, in itself, equivalent to speech. Illustrations (a) A sells, by auction, to B, a horse which A knows to be unsound. A says nothing to B about the horse's unsoundness. This is not fraud in A. (b) B is A's daughter and has just come of age. Here, the relation between the parties would make it A's duty to tell B if the horse is unsound. (c) B says to A-"If you do not deny it, I shall assume that the horse is sound.".....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Contract Act, 1872 Section 31
Title: Contingent Contract Defined
State: Central
Year: 1872
A "contingent contract" is a contract to do or not to do something, if some event, collateral to such contract, does or does not happen. Illustration A contracts to pay B Rs.10,000 if B's house is burnt. This is a contingent contract.
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