Contract & Ors.
Specific Relief Act, 1963
Part I: Preliminary
• Section 1 – Short title, extent, and commencement
• Section 2 – Definitions
Part II: Specific Relief
Chapter II: Specific Performance of Contracts
• Section 10 – Specific performance of contracts when enforceable
• Section 11 – Specific performance of contracts related to trusts
• Section 12 – Specific performance of part of contract
• Section 14 – Contracts that cannot be specifically enforced
• Section 16 – Personal bars to relief
• Section 19 – Against whom specific performance may be enforced
• Section 20 – Discretion of the court in granting specific performance
Chapter III: Rectification of Instruments
• Section 26 – Rectification of instruments
Chapter IV: Rescission of Contracts
• Section 27 – When rescission may be adjudged
Chapter V: Cancellation of Instruments
• Section 31 – When cancellation may be ordered
Chapter VI: Declaratory Decrees
• Section 34 – Declaratory decree
• Section 35 – Effect of declaration
Chapter VII: Injunctions
• Section 36 – Preventive relief how granted
• Section 37 – Temporary and perpetual injunctions
• Section 38 – Perpetual injunction when granted
• Section 39 – Mandatory injunctions
• Section 41 – Cases where an injunction cannot be granted
Sales of Goods Act, 1930
Chapter I: Preliminary
• Section 1 – Short title, extent, and commencement
• Section 2 – Definitions (Key terms: Buyer, Seller, Goods, Delivery, Price, etc.)
Chapter II: Formation of the Contract of Sale
• Section 4 – Sale and agreement to sell
• Section 5 – How a contract of sale is made
• Section 6 – Existing and future goods
• Section 7 – Goods perishing before making the contract
• Section 8 – Goods perishing after the agreement but before sale
• Section 10 – Determination of price
• Section 12 – Condition and warranty
• Section 13 – When condition is treated as warranty
• Section 14 – Implied undertaking as to title
• Section 16 – Implied conditions as to quality or fitness
Chapter III: Effects of the Contract
• Section 18 – Goods must be ascertained
• Section 19 – Property passes when intended to pass
• Section 20-24 – Rules for passing of property
• Section 26 – Risk prima facie passes with property
• Section 27 – Sale by person not the owner (Nemo dat quod non habet)
• Section 30 – Sale by a person in possession under a voidable contract
Chapter IV: Performance of the Contract
• Section 31 – Duties of seller and buyer
• Section 32 – Payment and delivery are concurrent conditions
• Section 37 – Delivery and part delivery
• Section 39 – Delivery to carrier or wharfinger
• Section 41 – Buyer's right to examine the goods
Chapter V: Rights of Unpaid Seller
• Section 45 – Unpaid seller defined
• Section 46 – Rights of unpaid seller
• Section 47 – Lien of unpaid seller
• Section 48 – Termination of lien
• Section 50 – Right of stoppage in transit
• Section 54 – Remedy for breach of warranty
PartnerShip Act, 1932
Chapter I: Preliminary
• Section 1 – Short title, extent, and commencement
• Section 2 – Definitions (Important terms: Firm, Firm name, Partnership, Partner, etc.)
Chapter II: Nature of Partnership
• Section 4 – Definition of partnership
• Section 5 – Partnership arises from contract, not status
• Section 6 – Determining the existence of partnership
• Section 7 – Partnership at will
• Section 9 – General duties of partners
• Section 10 – Duty to indemnify for loss caused by fraud
Chapter III: Relations of Partners to One Another
• Section 12 – Rights and duties of partners
• Section 13 – Mutual rights and liabilities
• Section 14 – Firm’s property
• Section 15 – Application of firm’s property
• Section 16 – Personal profit earned by a partner
• Section 17 – Rights and duties after change in the firm
Chapter IV: Relations of Partners to Third Parties
• Section 18 – Partner as agent of the firm
• Section 19 – Implied authority of partner
• Section 20 – Extension and restriction of partner’s authority
• Section 25 – Liability of a partner for firm’s acts
• Section 26 – Liability for acts of partners done after retirement
• Section 29 – Rights of transferee of a partner’s interest
Chapter V: Incoming and Outgoing Partners
• Section 31 – Admission of a partner
• Section 32 – Retirement of a partner
• Section 33 – Expulsion of a partner
• Section 37 – Right of outgoing partner to share in subsequent profits
Chapter VI: Dissolution of a Firm
• Section 39 – Dissolution of a firm
• Section 40 – Dissolution by agreement
• Section 41 – Compulsory dissolution
• Section 42 – Dissolution on happening of certain events
• Section 44 – Dissolution by court (Grounds include insanity, misconduct, etc.)
Chapter VII: Registration of Firms
• Section 56 – Power to make rules
• Section 58 – Application for registration
• Section 59 – Entry of firm in the register
• Section 69 – Effect of non-registration (firm cannot sue third parties)
Indian Contract Act,1872
Chapter I: Nature of Contracts
• Section 1 – Short title, extent, and commencement
• Section 2 – Definitions (Key terms: Agreement, Contract, Proposal, Promise, Consideration, Void and Voidable
Contracts, etc.)
• Section 3 – Communication, acceptance, and revocation of proposals
• Section 4 – Communication when complete
• Section 5 – Revocation of proposals and acceptances
• Section 6 – Revocation of offer
• Section 7 – Acceptance must be absolute
• Section 10 – What agreements are contracts (Essentials of a valid contract)
• Section 11 – Who are competent to contract (Minors, Unsound mind, Disqualified persons)
• Section 12 – What is a sound mind for the purpose of contracting
• Section 13 – Consent defined
• Section 14 – Free consent
• Section 15 – Coercion
• Section 16 – Undue influence
• Section 17 – Fraud
• Section 18 – Misrepresentation
• Section 19 – Voidability of agreements without free consent
• Section 20 – Agreement void due to mutual mistake
• Section 23 – Consideration and objects that are unlawful
• Section 25 – Agreement without consideration is void (Exceptions)
• Section 26 – Agreement in restraint of marriage void
• Section 27 – Agreement in restraint of trade void
• Section 28 – Agreement in restraint of legal proceedings void
• Section 29 – Agreements void for uncertainty
• Section 30 – Agreements by way of wager void
Chapter IV: Performance of Contracts
• Section 37 – Obligation of parties to contracts
• Section 39 – Effect of refusal to perform promise (Anticipatory breach of contract)
• Section 40 – Person by whom promise is to be performed
• Section 41 – Performance by a third party
• Section 42 – Devolution of joint liabilities
• Section 55 - Effect of failure to perform at fixed time, in contract in which time is essential. ( Time is the
essence of the contract)
• Section 56 – Agreement to do impossible acts (Doctrine of Frustration)
• Section 59 - Application of payment where debt to be discharged is indicated.
• Section 60- not indicated.
• Section 61 - where neither party appropriates.
• Section 62 - Effect of novation, rescission, and alteration of contract.
Chapter VI: Breach of Contract & Remedies
• Section 73 – Compensation for loss or damage caused by breach of contract
• Section 74 – Compensation for breach of contract where penalty is stipulated
• Section 75 – Party rightfully rescinding contract entitled to compensation
Part 2: Special Types of Contracts
Contract of Indemnity & Guarantee (Sections 124-147)
• Section 124 – Contract of Indemnity defined
• Section 126 – Contract of Guarantee defined
• Section 128 – Surety’s liability is co-extensive with that of the principal debtor
• Section 130 – Revocation of continuing guarantee
• Section 133 – Discharge of surety by variance in contract
Contract of Bailment & Pledge (Sections 148-181)
• Section 148 – Bailment defined
• Section 151 – Duty of bailee to take care of goods
• Section 152 – Bailee not liable for loss if reasonable care is taken
• Section 172 – Pledge defined
• Section 176 – Pawnee’s right to sell
Contract of Agency (Sections 182-238)
• Section 182 – Agent and Principal defined
• Section 183 – Who may employ an agent
• Section 201 – Termination of agency
• Section 227 – Principal’s liability for agent’s acts (Vicarious Liability)