General Principles of Law of Contract

Unit 1 — Historical development of law of contract in India

Definition · Essentials of contract -Agreements which are not contracts · Void and voidablecontracts

• INTRODUCTION
• Types of Contracts

Unit 2 — Offer

Essentials · Kinds of offer · Invitation to offer · Lapse ofoffer · Acceptance -Essentials · Communication of acceptance · Contract through post · Provisional acceptance · Revocation ofacceptance

• OFFER, ACCEPTANCE AND ITS COMMUNICATION

Unit 3 — Consideration

Definition and essentials · Past, present and future consideration · Privity ofcontract

• Consideration

Unit 4 — Capacity to contract

Contracts by or with Minors, lunatics, drunkard, alien enemies, foreign sovereign, insolvents, convicts, andbarristers

• Competency of Parties

Unit 5 — Free consent

Coercion · Duress · Undue influence · Misrepresentation · Fraud -Mistake

• Free Consent

Unit 6 — Lawful object

Unlawful agreements · Agreements opposed to public policy -Recovery of things given under an illegal agreement · Wagering contract · Contingent contract -Uncertainagreement

• Unlawful Object and Consideration
• Void Agreements

Unit 7 — Discharge of contract

By performance · By impossibility of performance · By novation -By breach · Remedies for breach · Rules relating todamages

• Performance of Contract
• Discharge of contract
• Breach of Contract
• Types of Damages & Remedies for Breach

Unit 8 — Quasi

contract · Theories · Kinds of quasi-contract

Unit 9 — Specific Relief Act, 1963

Recovery of possession of immovable and moveableproperty · Specific performance of contract · Injunctions

• KINDS OF RELIEF IN Specific Relief Act 1963
• Possessory Remedies
• Specific Performance of Contracts
• Injunctions