Essential Ingredients for Enforceability (Sections 10 — 30)

You and a friend agree to meet at Marine Drive at six. She does not turn up. You are annoyed, but you cannot sue her. Now you agree to buy a flat from a builder, and he does not hand it over. You can sue. Both were agreements. Why does the law care about one and not the other? Section 10 of the Indian Contract Act gives the checklist, and the next twenty sections fill it in.

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An agreement becomes a contract only when it passes the section 10 test: free consent, competent parties, lawful consideration, lawful object, and it is not one of the agreements the Act expressly declares void.

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