local shop, and just before any agreement is reached on price, size or quantities X decides not to continue. At this stage, there is no legally binding contract between Y and X because there is no definite offer for X to accept until the essential terms of the bargain have been decided. An offer is not made for just a specific person. It may be made to a one or more, or to the whole country. Acceptance Acceptance occurs when the party answering the offer agrees to the offer, It can be verbal
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include the names like Reliance, Talco Bajaj Auto, Infosys Technologies, Hindustan Lever Ltd., Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., and Larsen and Tubro etc. 1.2 MEANING OF COMPANY Section 3 (1) (i) of the Companies Act, 1956 defines a company as “a company formed and registered under this Act or an existing company”. Section 3(1) (ii) Of the act states that “an existing company means a company formed and registered under any of the previous companies laws”. This definition does not reveal the distinctive characteristics
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CONTRACT LAW 2012/2013 CONTRACT LAW Content: Formation of contract. Vitiating factors. Terms. Privity of contract. Discharge of contractual obligations. Remedies. Limitation of actions. BEA1003/BEA1003A 2 Contract FORMATION OF CONTRACT A contract was defined in the 19th century by Sir Frederick Pollock as “A promise or set of promises which the law will enforce”. The requirements of a valid contract are: 1.Agreement. 2.Consideration. 3.Capacity . 4.Intention to create legal relations
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include the names like Reliance, Talco Bajaj Auto, Infosys Technologies, Hindustan Lever Ltd., Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., and Larsen and Tubro etc. 1.2 MEANING OF COMPANY Section 3 (1) (i) of the Companies Act, 1956 defines a company as “a company formed and registered under this Act or an existing company”. Section 3(1) (ii) Of the act states that “an existing company means a company formed and registered under any of the previous companies laws”. This definition does not reveal the distinctive characteristics
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admittedly the benamidar and is impleaded in the suit. In the said decision, it has also been held that "a beneficiary cannot be called a holder of the instrument and payment to him cannot discharge the maker thereof unless the case falls under section 82(c) of the Act". So also, it has been held in the decision reported in Subharaya v. Abiram,3 that a beneficiary does not become a holder of the instrument even upon getting a declaration that he is the beneficial owner and the payee is only a benamidar
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leading cases. An offer may be made to the world at large. Such an offer is a general offer. However, a contract is not done with the whole world but only with the person who comes forward and accepts the offer. The acceptance might be express or implied. As per Anson, "An offer need not be made to an asertained person, but no contract can arise until it is accepted by an ascertained person". Case of Carllil vs Cabolic Smoke Ball Company. Creation of the contract - If the person performs the conditions
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California Law Review Volume 57 | Issue 1 Article 1 January 1969 The Legal Roles of Shareholders and Management in Modern Corporate Decisionmaking Melvin Aaron Eisenberg Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/californialawreview Recommended Citation Melvin Aaron Eisenberg, The Legal Roles of Shareholders and Management in Modern Corporate Decisionmaking, 57 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (1969). Available at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/californialawreview/vol57/iss1/1
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M UM B A I S I L I C O N VA L L E Y BANGALORE S I NG A P ORE M UM BA I -BK C NEW DELH I M UNI CH Intellectual Property Law in India December 2013 © Copyright 2013 Nishith Desai Associates www.nishithdesai.com Intellectual Property Law in India About NDA Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) is a research based international law firm with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, Silicon Valley, Singapore, New Delhi, Munich. We specialize in strategic legal, regulatory and tax advice
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TOPIC INDIAN CONTRACT ACT Nature and Kind of Contracts Offer and Acceptance of an Offer Capacity of Parties and Consideration Void Agreement and Contingent Contract Performance of Contract Discharge of a Contract Remedies for Breach of Contract and Quasi-contract Agency PAGE 2-10 11-22 23-34 35-49 50-62 63-72 73-81 82-99 SALES OF GOODS ACT Sales of Goods Act CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT Consumer Protection Act NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT ACT Negotiable Instrument Act THE PARTNERSHIP LAW The Partnership
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then country and international community. Each individual, each family, each group and each country are dependent on each other by some means. For the easy exchange of dependency, people introduced business. “Business is defined as the exchange of goods, services or money for mutual benefit or profit.” (Skinner and Ivanncevich, 1992, p.8) The organizations that involve in profit making activities are called business organizations. Business may be trade, commerce or industry. To make business organized
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