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- A. Assistant agent
- B. Associate agent
- C. Sub-agent
- D. None of above
Explanation: A sub-agent is appointed by the original agent and works under that agent’s control in the agency business.
Correct answer: Sub-agent- A. Servant
- B. A Labour
- C. None of above
- D. An agent
Explanation: Section 183 states that a person of majority age and sound mind may employ an agent.
Correct answer: An agent- A. Employer
- B. Principal
- C. Managing director
- D. None of above
Explanation: The principal is the person for whom an agent performs an act or whom the agent represents.
Correct answer: Principal- A. Pledge by Trust agent
- B. Pledge by international agent
- C. Pledge by mercantile agent
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 178 deals with a mercantile agent’s authority to pledge goods in specified circumstances.
Correct answer: Pledge by mercantile agent- A. 146
- B. 147
- C. All of above
- D. 148
Explanation: Section 148 defines bailment as delivery of goods by one person to another for a specific purpose, with an obligation to return or dispose…
Correct answer: 148- A. A thing which is given as security
- B. A thing which is saled out
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: A pledge is a bailment of goods as security for a debt or performance of a promise, so the security element identifies option a.
Correct answer: A thing which is given as security- A. Both A and B
- B. Special bailment
- C. Pledge
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 172 of the Contract Act defines a pledge as the bailment of goods as security for payment of a debt or performance of a promise.
Correct answer: Pledge- A. 148, of the Contract Act
- B. 149, of the Contract Act
- C. None of above
- D. 150, of the Contract Act
Explanation: Section 150 requires the bailor to disclose faults in the goods bailed that materially interfere with their use or expose the bailee to…
Correct answer: 150, of the Contract Act- A. Bailor
- B. Bailee
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: The bailor is the person who delivers goods to another person for a particular purpose under a bailment contract.
Correct answer: Bailor- A. Delivery of goods without cost for welfare of public
- B. Delivery of goods free of cost
- C. A delivery of a thing entrusted for some special purpose or object upon a contract
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 148 describes bailment as delivery of goods by one person to another for a specific purpose, under a contract that the goods will…
Correct answer: A delivery of a thing entrusted for some special purpose or object upon a contract- A. None of above
- B. Valid
- C. Both A and B
- D. Invalid
Explanation: Under section 143, a guarantee obtained by the creditor through concealment of material circumstances is invalid because the surety's…
Correct answer: Invalid- A. The creditor
- B. Principal debtor
- C. Without giving any notice to any person
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 130 allows a surety to revoke a continuing guarantee for future transactions by giving notice to the creditor.
Correct answer: The creditor- A. Principal debtor
- B. Surety
- C. Both (a) and (b)
- D. None of above
Explanation: In a contract of guarantee, the person who gives the guarantee is the surety.
Correct answer: Surety- A. Guarantee obtained by free consent
- B. Guarantee obtained by fraud
- C. Guarantee obtained by miscrepresentation
- D. Non of these
Explanation: Section 142 deals with a guarantee obtained through misrepresentation by the creditor or concealment of material circumstances.
Correct answer: Guarantee obtained by miscrepresentation- A. Special guarantee
- B. None of above
- C. Specific guarantee
- D. Continuing guarantee
Explanation: A guarantee covering multiple or successive transactions is called a continuing guarantee under section 129 of the Contract Act.
Correct answer: Continuing guarantee- A. Contracts of indemnity
- B. Contracts of conditions
- C. Contracts of minor
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 124 of the Contract Act, 1872 defines a contract of indemnity as an agreement in which one party promises to save the other from…
Correct answer: Contracts of indemnity- A. Nothing
- B. Compensation against the breacher
- C. Registration of criminal Case against the breacher
- D. None of above
Explanation: Under section 73 of the Contract Act, the injured party may claim compensation for loss or damage naturally arising from the breach.
Correct answer: Compensation against the breacher- A. Like simple contract
- B. None of above
- C. Both A and B
- D. In reciprocal manners
Explanation: Reciprocal promises are promises forming the consideration for one another and must be performed according to their reciprocal order or…
Correct answer: In reciprocal manners- A. He is bound to return it
- B. It is his discretion if he return
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 72 requires a person who receives money or property by mistake or under coercion to repay or return it.
Correct answer: He is bound to return it- A. 30
- B. 32
- C. 31
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 32 deals with enforcement of contingent contracts depending on an uncertain event happening.
Correct answer: 32