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The Question Consists of Two Statements, One Labelled as the Principle and Other as Fact. You Are to Examine the Principle and Apply It to the Given Facts Carefully and Select the Best Option. - Mathematics

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प्रश्न

The question consists of two statements, one labelled as the principle and other as Fact. You are to examine the principle and apply it to the given facts carefully and select the best option.

Principle: 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. 

Fact: “Ramanuj telegraphed to Shyam Sunder, writing: “Will you sell me your Rolls Royce CAR? Telegram the lowest cash price.” Shyam Sunder also replied by telegram: “Lowest price for CAR is 20 lakh.” Ramanuj immediately sent his consent through telegram stating: “I agree to buy the CAR for 20 lakh asked by you.” Shyam Sunder refused to sell the car.

विकल्प

  • He cannot refuse to sell the CAR because the contract has already been made.

  • He can refuse to sell the CAR because it was only invitation to offer and not the real offer

  • It was not a valid offer because a willingness to enter into a contract was absent.

  • None of the above

MCQ

उत्तर

He can refuse to sell the CAR because it was only an invitation to offer and not the real offer

Explanation:

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 person to such act or abstinence, he is said to make a proposal. In the given case. It was just an invitation to offer, not the real offer. Hence, Shyamsunder can refuse to sell the car.

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Indian Contract Act (Entrance Exams)
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2014-2015 (May) Set 1

संबंधित प्रश्न

In this Question problem consists of a set of rules and facts. Apply the specified rules to the set of facts and answer the question. In answering the following question, you should not rely on any rule(s) except the rule(s) that are supplied for problem. Further, you should not assume any fact other than 'those stated in the problem. The aim is to test your ability to properly apply a rule to a given set of facts, even when the result is absurd or unacceptable for any other reason. It is not the aim to test any knowledge of law you may already possess.

Rules: 
A. Whoever intending to take any moveable property out of the possession of any person without that person's consent, moves that property out of his or her possession is said to commit theft.
B. A person who, without lawful excuse, damages any property belonging to another intending to damage any such property shall be guilty of causing criminal damage. C. Damage means any impairment of the value of a property. 

Facts: Veena, an old lady of 78 years, used to live with her granddaughter Indira. Veena was ill and therefore bed-ridden for several months. In those months, she could not tolerate any noise and it 'became quite difficult to clean her room. After she died, Indira hired a cleaner, Lucky, to clean the room and throw away any rubbish that maybe there. There was a pile of old newspapers that Veena had stacked in a corner of her room. Lucky asked Indira if he should clear away the pile of old newspapers, to which she said yes. Lucky took the pile to a municipality rubbish dump. While Lucky was sorting and throwing away the newspapers, he was very surprised to find a beautiful painting in between two sheets of paper. He thought that Indira probably wouldn't want this old painting back, especially because it was I’m in several places and the colour was fading. He took the painting home, mounted it on a wooden frame and hung it on the wall of his bedroom. Unknown to him, the painting was an old, masterpiece, and worth twenty thousand rupees. Before mounting the painting, Lucky pasted it on a plain sheet of paper so that it does not tear anymore. By doing so, he made its professional restoration very difficult and thereby reduced its value by half Lucky's neighbor Kamala discovered that the painting belonged to Indira. With the motive of returning the painting to Indira, Kamala climbed through an open window into Lucky's room when he was away one afternoon and removed the painting from his house. If Lucky had discovered the painting before leaving Indira's house rather than at the rubbish dump, would lie have been guilty of theft in this case'?


The question consists of two statements, one labelled as principle and other as Fact. You are to exa.mine the principle and apply it to the given facts carefully and select the best option.

PRINCIPLE: Nothing is an offense which is done by a person who, at the time of doing it, by reason of unsoundness of mind, is incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that he is doing what is either wrong or contrary to law.

FACT: A takes his son B who is three years old, for a bath to the well. He throws his son inside the well so that he could have a good bath. After 10 minutes he also jumped in the well to take a bath and take his son out of the well. Both were rescued by the villagers but his son was found dead.


The question consists of two statements, one labelled as principle and other as Fact. You are to exa.mine the principle and apply it to the given facts carefully and select the best option.

PRINCIPLE: Mere silence as to facts likely to affect the willingness of a person to enter into a contract is not fraud unless the circumstances of the case ate such that, regard being had to them, it is the duty of the person keeping silence to speak, or unless his silence is, in itself, equivalent to speech.

FACT: A sells, by auction, to B, a horse which A knows to be unsound. A says nothing to B about the horse's unsoundness.


Mark the best option:
Principle: Agreements, the meaning of which is not certain, or capable of being made certain, are void.
Facts: Karthik, a physician, enters into an agreement with Talreja to rent from him a flat for setting up a clinic at Rupees fifteen thousand p.m. and Rupees two thousand p.m. extra if the flat proves lucky for him. A month after Karthik started using the flats in his clinic; he was appointed as visiting faculty by one of the medical colleges. Talreja claims Rupees seventeen thousand p.m.as rent from the next month onwards but Karthik refuses to pay him the amount claimed by him.


Which of the following is (are) included in Geographical indications of Goods


A/an ............... is every Promise and every set of promises, forming consideration for each other


Mark the best option:
When a contract is altered, the original contract is:


“A Contract is an agreement creating and defining obligations between the parties” the definition was put forwarded by


Parol contracts are also known as


Where a contract has to be inferred from the conduct of parties, it is called


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