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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