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Contract Law - 2

Contract Law - 2

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The display of articles in a showroom, indicating their prices, amounts to

  1. offer
  2. counter offer
  3. invitation to an offer
  4. mere advertisement
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Acceptance sent through post

  1. can be revoked at any time
  2. cannot be revoked at any time
  3. can be revoked before it comes to the knowledge of the offeror
  4. None of these
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A partial illegality

  1. may avoid the whole agreement
  2. will not avoid the whole agreement
  3. will avoid the whole agreement
  4. Either (2) or (3)
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The plaintiff saves the defendant’s son from drowning in a pond. Later on, the defendant promises to pay the plaintiff one thousand rupees as a reward. In this context, which of the following propositions is correct?

  1. The defendant’s liability arises in quasi-contract.
  2. The defendant’s liability is statutory.
  3. The defendant is not liable to pay.
  4. The defendant is liable to pay because the agreement is not nudum pactum.
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following cases does not have coercion?

  1. A contract was made to avoid threatened prosecution.
  2. There is a threat to strike.
  3. A contract was made under a statutory compulsion.
  4. None of these
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A guru (spiritual advisor) induced his chela (devotee) to gift him all his property for securing benefit to his soul in the next world. The gift shall be

  1. void
  2. voidable
  3. valid
  4. immoral
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ordinarily, passive concealment or mere silence is no fraud. But, it may become deceptive in certain cases. In which of the following cases does it amount to fraud?

  1. When the person keeping silent is under ‘duty to speak’
  2. When the silence is itself ‘equivalent to seech’
  3. ‘Half-truths’
  4. All of the above
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If only a part of the consideration or object is unlawful, the contract under Section 24 shall be

  1. valid
  2. voidable
  3. void
  4. illegal
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A person agrees to maintain his mother as part of a family arrangement during partition in the family. Which of the following is correct about this contract?

  1. It is void and not enforceable.
  2. It is voidable but enforceable.
  3. It is valid and enforceable.
  4. It is null and void (as per partition under Hindu law).
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following does not amount to fraud?

  1. Active concealment of a fact
  2. A promise made without any intention of performing it
  3. Suggestion as a fact of that which is not true by one who does not believe it to be true
  4. A representation made without knowing it to be false, honestly believing it to be true
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A knows that his horse had a damaged hoof which he filled up in such a way as to defy detection and sold it to B. This defect was subsequently discovered by B. The act of A amounts to

  1. a false suggestion
  2. active concealment of fact
  3. misrepresentation
  4. mistake
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following cases can a finder of goods not sell the goods that he has found?

  1. Where the goods are not perishable in nature
  2. Where his lawful charges amount to more than two-third of the value of the goods found
  3. Where the owner cannot be traced even with reasonable diligence
  4. Where the real owner is found but he refuses to pay reasonable charges to the finder
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An agreement by which one is restrained from exercising a lawful profession or business of any kind is

  1. void
  2. valid and unenforceable at law
  3. valid and enforceable at law
  4. None of these
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If a contract is based on personal skill or confidence of parties, the death of a party in such a case

  1. does not put an end to the contract
  2. makes the representatives of the deceased liable to perform such a contract
  3. puts an end to the contract
  4. None of these
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A party to a contract can be discharged from performing it if it becomes

  1. expensive
  2. onerous
  3. commercially unviable
  4. impossible
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