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NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY
BANGALORE

M.B.L. PART I CONTRACT LAWS

Important Questions for Annual Examination (June) 2013

1. With the help of illustration, explain the rule of Quasi Contract.
2. Explain the rule of law as laid down in Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre co Ltd vs.
Selfridge co. ltd
3. Agreements with an intention to create legal relationship are enforceable at
law . Comment.
4. Difference between
i. Sale & Bailment.
ii. Misrepresentation & Fraud.
iii. Dissolution of Partnership & Dissolution of firm.
iv. Horse Racing & Wagering Contract.
v. Contact of Indemnity and Contract of Guarantee.
5. Explain the Doctrine of Frustration
6. Communication of offer is essential, explain with a Case law.
7. Does Indian Contract Law recognise Implied Acceptance?
8. List out Remedies for breach of Contract.
9. Write Short Notes on:
i. Counter Offer
ii. Anticipatory Breach of contract
iii. Free Consent/Consensus ad idem
iv. Time as essence of contract.
v. Minor in partnership
vi. Mistake on subject matter
vii. Sub pledge
viii. Emergency Power of Agent.
ix. Agreement in restrain of Legal proceedings.
x. Invitation to Treat
xi. Promissory Estoppel.
xii. Performance Guarantee.
xiii. Undue influence and its impact upon the contact.
10. Explain the Rights & liability of Surety.
11. Explain the situation where Contract of Agency ends/Terminates.
12. Does silence amount to fraud.
13. Explain nature & scope of different type of Lien.

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14. Explain the law of contract for necessaries.
15. Explain the law on Impossibility of Performer, with case law
16. State the law on Past consideration.
17. Are Tender mere quotation? Comment.
18. Contract of Guarantee is not a contract uberrima Fidei? Examine.
19. What is a Digital Contract? Explain different types of Digital contract.
20. Discuss the legality of Digital Contract.


Important Case Laws:
a. Balfour v. Balfour [(1919) 2 KB 571]

b. Jones v. Padavatton [(1969)2 All ER 616]

c. Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [(1893)1QB 256]

d. Lalman Shukla v. Gauri Dutt [(1913) 11 ALJ 489]

e. Household Fire Insurance Co v. Grant Court of Appeal [(1879) 4 Ex.D 2161]

f. Jawaharlal Barman v. Union of India [AIR 1962 Supreme Court 378]

g. M/s Suraj Besan and Rice Mills v. Food Corporation of India [AIR 1988 Delhi
224]

h. Chinnaya v. Venkataramaya, [ILR 4 Mad 137 (1881)]

i. Cowern v. Nield, [1911-13 All ER Rep 425]

j. Dunlop Pnuematic Tyre Co. Ltd v. Selfridge & Co. Ltd,[(1915) A.C. 847]

k. Kedarnath Bhattacharjee v. Gorie Mohammed, [ILR 14 Cal 64(1887)]

l. Lampleigh v. Brathwait, [80 ER 255]

m. M. Ramiah v. Sankaranarayana, [AIR 1958 Ker 246]

n. Mohori Bibee v. Dharmodas Ghose, [PC(1903)30 IA 114]


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o. Raghunath Prasad V. Sarju Prasad AIR 1924 PC 60

p. Schroeder Music Publishing Co. v. Macaulay (1974) 1 WLR 1308

q. Said v. Butt (1920) 1 KB 497

r. Gurumukh v. Amar Singh (1991) 3 SCC 79

s. V. Parthasarathy v. Controller of Capital Issues (or the Larsen Toubro Case)
AIR 1991 SC 1420

t. Reddiar v. Periara AIR 1991 Ker. 388

u. Charles Rickard V. Oppenheim [(1950) 1 All Er 420 (Ca)]

v. Krell V. Henry [(1900-03)All Er Rep 20 (Ca)]

w. Reilly V. The King [(1934) Ac 176]

x. Satyabrata Ghose V. Mungeeram Bangur & Co [(1954) Scr 310

y. R.L. Khanna v. Simla Banking and Industries [AIR 1959 Punj. 100]

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