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Civil law governs disputes involving private rights, including contracts, property, family relations, torts and compensation. The subject explains breach of duty, civil liability, damages, specific relief, injunctions and other remedies, while distinguishing private claims between individuals from criminal proceedings brought to punish offences against the state.
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- A. The contractor
- B. Stranger
- C. Third person
- D. None of above
Explanation: Under Section 126, a guarantee is an undertaking to perform the promise or discharge the liability of a third person if that person…
Correct answer: Third person- A. Valid
- B. Invalid
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 143 of the Contract Act makes a guarantee invalid when the creditor's misrepresentation, or his knowledge and assent to it…
Correct answer: Invalid- A. Restricted guarantee
- B. Continuing guarantee
- C. Limited guarantee
- D. None of above
Explanation: This is a continuing guarantee because it covers the repeated collection and payment of rents by C, rather than one isolated transaction.
Correct answer: Continuing guarantee- A. Contracts of indemnity
- B. Contracts of guarantee
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: Sections 124 and 125 concern indemnity, while sections 126 to 147 concern guarantees.
Correct answer: Both A and B- A. Surety contract
- B. Simple contract
- C. Contract of indemnity
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 124 defines indemnity as a promise to save another from loss caused by the promisor or by another person.
Correct answer: Contract of indemnity- A. VI
- B. VII
- C. VIII
- D. None of above
Explanation: Chapter VI of the Contract Act, comprising sections 73 to 75, deals with compensation and other consequences arising from breach of…
Correct answer: VI- A. Reciprocal promisor
- B. Reciprocal Promisee
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 51 concerns reciprocal promises performed simultaneously: one party need not perform unless the other is ready and willing to…
Correct answer: Reciprocal Promisee- A. 32
- B. 33
- C. 34
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 33 governs enforcement of contingent contracts dependent on an event not happening.
Correct answer: 33- A. Unless and until C dies in A's life time
- B. Unless and until A dies in C's life time
- C. Both A and C dies
- D. None of above
Explanation: A's survival of C means that C must die while A is still alive; only then does the specified event become certain.
Correct answer: Unless and until C dies in A's life time- A. Void
- B. Voidable
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: Under section 36, a contingent agreement based on an impossible event is void from the outset.
Correct answer: Void- A. Possible but not assured
- B. Doubtful or uncertain
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: Contingent describes something dependent on an uncertain event, so it is possible but not assured and therefore doubtful.
Correct answer: Both A and B- A. Simple contract
- B. Complex contract
- C. Contingent contract
- D. None of above
Explanation: Under Section 31 of the Contract Act, a contract whose performance depends on the happening or non-happening of a collateral uncertain…
Correct answer: Contingent contract- A. Void
- B. Voidable
- C. Valid
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 25 makes an agreement without consideration void, subject to specific statutory exceptions such as a written promise based on…
Correct answer: Void374. Where both the parties are under mistake as to matter of fact the agreement is_________________?
- A. Void
- B. Voidable
- C. Valid
- D. None of above
Explanation: When both parties share a mistake about an essential matter of fact, Section 20 treats the agreement as void because there is no genuine…
Correct answer: Void- A. The Court can accept the suit
- B. The Court may set aside the bonds
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: Obtaining A's bond by threatening prosecution in connection with the forged note amounts to coercion where the threat unlawfully pressures…
Correct answer: The Court may set aside the bonds- A. Void of the option of the party whose consent was caused
- B. Voidable on the option of the party whose consent so caused
- C. Valid for both sides
- D. None of above
Explanation: Under Section 19, consent caused by coercion, fraud, or misrepresentation makes the contract voidable at the option of the party whose…
Correct answer: Voidable on the option of the party whose consent so caused- A. Cheating
- B. Fraud
- C. Misrepresentation
- D. None of above
Explanation: Knowingly stating an untrue fact or actively concealing a material fact falls within the statutory definition of fraud under Section 17.
Correct answer: Fraud- A. 15
- B. 16
- C. 17
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 17 of the Contract Act defines fraud, while Section 18 deals with misrepresentation and Section 16 with undue influence.
Correct answer: 17- A. Any
- B. Lawful
- C. Unlawful
- D. None of above
Explanation: Under section 10 of the Contract Act, an agreement becomes a contract only when it has free consent, competent parties, and a lawful…
Correct answer: Lawful- A. Before the communication of its acceptance
- B. Before the rejection of its communication
- C. Both A and B
- D. None of above
Explanation: Section 5 permits revocation of a proposal before communication of its acceptance is complete against the proposer.
Correct answer: Before the communication of its acceptance