Unit 2 of Law of Contract and Specific Relief (syllabus: Module 2 — ICA ss. 10–30). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.
What this unit covers
- Free consent: what vitiates it, and what follows
- Why must a promise have a price, and when does it bind without one?
- Is a covenant not to compete enforceable in India?
- What becomes of an agreement made by a minor?
Treat that list as a self-test: recite each topic's rule from memory before you open its cases.
Provisions
- Indian Contract Act 1872, s. 14
- Indian Contract Act 1872, s. 2(d)
- Indian Contract Act 1872, s. 27
- Indian Contract Act 1872, s. 11
Leading cases
- Subhas Chandra Das Mushib v Ganga Prosad Das Mushib
- Kedarnath Bhattacharji v Gorie Mahomed
- Superintendence Company of India (P) Ltd v Krishan Murgai
- Mohori Bibee v Dharmodas Ghose (1903)
Full case summaries
- Mohori Bibee v Dharmodas Ghose (1903)
- Chinnaya v Ramayya (1882)
- Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Ltd v Brojo Nath Ganguly (1986)
- Gherulal Parakh v Mahadeodas Maiya (1959)
- Niranjan Shankar Golikari v Century Spinning and Manufacturing Co Ltd (1967)
- Taylor v Caldwell (1863) and Krell v Henry (1903)
- Sales Tax Officer, Banaras v Kanhaiya Lal Mukund Lal Saraf (1958)
- State of West Bengal v B.K. Mondal & Sons (1962)