Law of Contract
Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya · LL.B. Semester 2 · LAIBTT1N
Unit I — Introduction and Formation of Contract:
Historical development and evolution of contract law · Nature and significance of contractual obligations · Meaning and types of contracts · Essentials of a valid contract · Agreement and contract · Offer and acceptance · Types of offers · Invitation to offer · Communication and revocation of offer and acceptance · Formation of contracts in physical and digital modes including e-contracts.
Unit II — Capacity, Consent, and Consideration:
Capacity to contract and effects of agreements with incompetent persons · Free consent and factors vitiating consent including coercion, undue influence, fraud, misrepresentation, and mistake · Meaning, nature, and significance of consideration · Doctrine of privity of contract · Exceptions to consideration.
Unit III — Validity and Discharge of Contracts:
Valid, void, voidable, and illegal agreements · Unlawful and opposed-to-public-policy agreements · Agreements with uncertain terms · Contingent agreements · Quasi-contractual obligations and their legal effects · Modes of discharge of contract · Performance and attempted performance · Discharge by agreement, lapse of time, operation of law, and frustration · Breach of contract and its legal consequences.
Unit IV — Remedies and Specific Relief:
Remedies for breach of contract · Types of damages and remoteness of damages · Restitution and quantum meruit · Specific performance and injunctions · Meaning and purpose of specific relief · Contracts specifically enforceable · Judicial discretion · Declaratory decrees · Rescission, rectification, and cancellation of instruments.
- Types of Damages & Remedies for Breach
- Origin of Specific Relief as Equitable Relief
- KINDS OF RELIEF IN Specific Relief Act 1963
- Specific Performance of Contracts
- Contracts that cannot be specifically performed
- Rectification of Instruments
- Recession of Contract
- Cancellation of instrument
- Declaratory Decree
- Injunctions
Unit V — Landmark Case Studies in Contract Law:
Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. · Balfour v. Balfour · Lalman Shukla v. Gauri Datt · Bhagwandas Goverdhandas Kedia v. Girdharilal Parshottamdas & Co. · Felthouse v. Bindley · Kedarnath Bhattacharji v. Gorie Mahomed · Mohori Bibee · v. Dhurmodas Ghose · Subhas Chandra Das Mushib v. Ganga Prasad Das · Mushib · Niranjan Shankar Golikari v. Century Spinning & Manufacturing Co. Ltd. · and Hadley v. Baxendale .