Contract – I Syllabus (LL.B Sem I) Mumbai University 2018-19

General Principles of Contract and Specific Relief Act, 1963

• General Principles of Contract, Indian Contract Act, 1872 (Sections 1 – 75)

• Government as Contracting Party

  • Constitutional provisions
  • Government power to contract
  • Procedural requirements
  • Kinds of Government contracts
  • Usual clauses
  • Performance of such contracts
  • Settlement of disputes and remedies

• Standard Form of Contract

  • Nature
  • Advantages
  • Unilateral character
  • Principles of protection against the possibility of exploitation
  • Judicial approach to such contracts
  • Exemption clauses
  • Clash between two standard form contracts

• Multi-national Agreement

• Specific Relief Act, 1963

• Recommended Readings

  • Mulla :  Indian Contract Act
  • Avtar Singh : Law of Contract
  • R.K Abichandani (Ed) : Pollock and Mulla on the Indian Contract Act and Specific Relief Act
  • Anson :  Law of Contract
  • Dutt : On Contract
  • M. Krishnan Nair : Law of Contracts
  • Myneni : Law of Contract -I