Annexure ‘CD – 01’

U T TA R P R A D E S H

FORMAT FOR COURSE CURRICULUM

L T P SW/F PSDA TOTAL

Course Title: Law of Contracts I (General Principles)
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UNITS
3 0 0 2 1 4
Credit Units: 4

Course Level: UG Course Code: LAW 119

Course Objectives:To acquaint students with the conceptual and operational parameters of the general principles of contractual relations.
To analysis the kinds of contracts, their enforcement and the vitiating factors of a contract.
To develop transactional ability of the students

Pre-requisites:  Student ought to have basic knowledge of legal concept including Rights and Duties
Student is expected to be acquainted with general legal principles and understanding of inter se legal relations in different spheres of human
activities.

Course Contents/Syllabus:
Module I: Formation of Contract Weightage (%)

 Contract: meaning, nature, essentials and kinds 20%

 Standard Form of Contract
 Offer/Proposal: definition, kinds, communication, revocation
 Acceptance: definition, essentials, communication, revocation
 e-Contract
Module II: Consideration and Capacity
 Consideration: definition, essentials, kinds, privity 20%
 Capacity to Contract: competent party, minor’s agreement: nature, ratification, doctrine of restitution, liability for
necessaries
Module III: Validity of Contract

 Free Consent: definition, grounds of unfree consent and effect. 20%

 Void Agreement: unlawful consideration and object, agreement without consideration, restraint of marriage, trade
and legal proceeding, uncertain agreement, wagering agreement, impossible act
 Contingent Contract
 Quasi Contracts: doctrine of Unjust Enrichment, definition and kinds.
Module IV: Discharge of Contract and Remedies

 Discharge of Contracts. 20%

 Performance-Time and Place of performance, Impossibility of performance and frustration.
 Breach – Anticipatory & Present.
 Remedies: damages, injunction and Quantum Meruit
 Recent Case Laws

Module V: Specific Relief Act, 1963

 Recovery of property. 20%

 Specific performance of contracts.
 Rescission of Contract.
 Declaratory Decree.
 Injunctions: Temporary and Perpetual, Mandatory.
Course Learning Outcomes:
 To trace the Evolution of Law of Contract
 To create an understanding about day to day commercial obligations
 To develop Student’s ability to analyse the emerging contractual issues.
 To apply the fundamentals of contracts in daily transactions.
 To remember important definitions and principles of law in Contract.
 To evaluate various doctrines of contract and determine their relevancein contemporary world.

Pedagogy for Course Delivery:

 Develop student’s ability to think on emerging socio-legal issues and problems in their disciplines through class discussions.
 The students will be taught using the theory and judgments which would help them in solving their moot problems.
 In addition to assigning the case studies and project topics on the related issues the instructor will cover the ways to think innovatively liberally using
thinking techniques.
 Design and develop the strategy necessary for imparting the practical knowledge of the subject

PSDA Details:
 Contract formation Exercise: Impact of IT and E-Contract (PSDA 1)
 Judgment Analysis (PSDA 2)
 Drafting of a Contract (PSDA 3)
 A Class-based Moot Court Competition in Contract Law (PSDA 4)

Lab/Practical details, if applicable:

List of Experiments:
NA

Assessment/ Examination Scheme:

Theory L/T (%) Lab/Practical/Studio (%)

100% NA
Theory Assesment:

Components (Drop Class Test PSDAs PSDAs PSDAs Attendance End-term Examination
down) Project Proposals Reports Viva

Weightage (%) 10% 5% 10% 10% 5% 60%

Lab/ Practical/ Studio Assessment:

Continuous Assessment/Internal Assessment End Term Examination

(____ %) (____ %)

Components (Drop down NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

Weightage (%) NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
 Mapping Continuous Evaluation components/PSDA with CLOs

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Text Reading:

 Pollock and Mulla - Indian Contract Act

 Avtar Singh - Indian Contract Act
 Bangia - Law of Contract and Specific Relief
 Anson - Law of Contract
 Cheshire and Fifoot - Law of Contract.
 Dutt on Contract
 Brian H. Bix-Contract Law: Rules, Theory and Context

References:
• All India Reporters