Law of Contract – I
Goa University · LL.B. Semester 1 · LLB-100
Unit 1 — General Principles of Contract
1. History and Nature of Contractual Obligations · 2. Nature and kinds of Contract · 3. Definition, Essentials for valid Contract · 4. Agreement: · Definition of agreement · Definition of Offer, Essentials, kinds and lapse of offer · Definition of Acceptance, Essentials, Revocation of · Acceptance. · 5. Consideration: · Definition, Essentials, Kinds of Consideration, · Agreements without Consideration, Exceptions to the rule, · Privity of Contract, Indian and English Concept of Privity.
Unit 2 — Competence/capacity of parties
1. Minor · 2. Insanity and other grounds of disqualification · Free consent: Voidable and Void Contracts · 1. Coercion · 2. Undue Influence · 3. Fraud · 4. Misrepresentation · 5. Mistake of fact and law
Unit 3 — Legality of Object
1. Effect of Illegal Agreements, · 2. Various Illegal Agreements and · 3. Agreements opposing public policy · Void agreements · 1. Agreements in restraint of marriage · 2. Agreements in restraint of Trade · 3. Agreements in restraint of legal proceedings · 4. Uncertain agreements · 5. Wagering Agreements
Unit 4
1. E-Contract-Essentials and validity · 2. Standard Form of Contracts · 3. Contingent contracts · 4. Quasi Contracts · 5. Government Contracts
Unit 5 — Discharge of contracts
1. Discharge by Performance · 2. Discharge by Impossibility · 3. Discharge by Breach · 4. Discharge by Agreement · Remedies for Breach of Contract: · 1. Kinds of Remedies · 2. Damages: Remoteness of Damages, Measure of damages · Kinds of damages, Quantum Meruit.
Unit 6 — The Specific Relief Act, 1963
1. Specific performance of contracts · 2. Recovery of Possession of property · 3. Rectification of instruments · 4. Rescission of Contracts · 5. Cancellation of Instruments · 6. Declaratory Decrees · 7. Injunctions