Most Important MCQs Of Indian Contract Act, 1872 Part-2 – Indian Judiciary – Free PDF Download

 
 
Q)  The person making the proposal is called the and the person accepting the proposal is called :

1. Proposor/ Proposee
2. Promisee/ Promisor
3. Promisor/Promisee
4. Proposee/ Proposor

• 2(a) When one person signifies to another his willingness to do or to abstain from doing anything, with a view to obtaining the assent of that other to such act or abstinence, he is said to make a proposal.
• 2(c) The person making the proposal is called the “promisor”, and the person accepting the proposal is called the “promisee”

Answer: Promisor/Promisee
Q) An agreement which is enforceable by law at the option of other or others is:

1. A contract
2. A voidable contract
3. Void
4. A void contract

Q) When the communication of a proposal is complete:

1. When it do not comes to the knowledge of the person to whom it is made.
2. When it comes to the knowledge of another person that some communication was made to the concerned person.
3. When it comes to the knowledge of the person to whom it is not made.
4. When it comes to the knowledge of the person to whom it is made.

Answer: When it comes to the knowledge of the person to whom it is made.
Q) When consent to an agreement is caused by coercion, fraud or misrepresentation, the agreement is a contract :

1. Voidable at the option of the party whose consent was so cause.
2. Illegal
3. Depends upon the circumstances of the case.
4. Void

• Consent is given in Section 13
• Free Consent has been defined in Section 14 of the Act.
• Coercion (Section 15)
• Fraud (Section 17)
• Misrepresentation (Section 18)
• Voidability of agreements without free consent.
• Voidable at the option of the party whose consent was so cause.

Q) Where both the parties to any agreement are under a mistake as to a matter of fact essential to the agreement.

1. The agreement is voidable.
2. The agreement can’t be enforceable at law.
3. The agreement is void.
4. The agreement is not void.

SECTION 20

• Agreement void where both parties are under mistake as to matter of fact. The agreement is void.

Q) Over a cup of coffee in a restaurant, X Invites Y to dinner at his house on a Sunday. Y hires a taxi and reaches X’s house at the appointed time , but x fails to perform his promise. Can Y recover any damages from X? 

1. Yes, as y has suffered
2. No, as the intention was not to create legal relation.
3. Either (a) or (b)
4. None of these.

Answer – b
Q) An acceptance on telephone should be

1. Heard by the offeror
2. Audible to the offeror
3. Understood by the offeror
4. All of the above.

Answer -d
Q) Which of the following is not Competent to Contract? 

1. A minor
2. A person of unsound mind
3. A person who has been disqualified from contracting by some Law
4. All of these

Answer – d

• Section 11 of Indian Contract Act states “Every person is competent to contract who is of the age of majority, according to the law which he is subject, and who is of sound mind and is not disqualified from contracting by any law to which he is subject”

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