CHAPTER 1:

Question 1

Tender

Answer 1

Spencer v. Harding

Question 2

Price List

Answer 2

Harvey v Facey (1893)

Question 3

Display of Goods

Answer 3

Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v. Boots Cash Chemists Ltd

Question 4

advertisement (ITT)

Answer 4

Harris v Nickerson

Question 5

Counter offer

Answer 5

Hyde v. Wrench

Question 6

Prescribed time/ reasonable time

Answer 6

Ramsgate Victoria Hotel Co. v Montefire

Question 7

Communication (Acceptance)

Answer 7

Felthouse v Blindly

Question 8

Revocation of an Acceptance

Answer 8

Dunmore v Alexander
When the letter of acceptance and the letter of revoking the acceptance reached the offeror simultaneously, the acceptance was revoked effectively

Question 9

Rules of Consideration

Answer 9

1. sufficient but need not be adequate
2. may come from an offeree or any other person
3. have some value
4. not be illegal and vague
5. possible of performance

Question 10

Types of consideration

Answer 10

1. Executory
2. Executed
3. Past

Question 11

Legal capacity (general rule)

Answer 11

Section 10(1) of the Contract Act 1950 provides that:
All agreements are contract if they are made by free consent of parties competent to contract for a lawful consideration and with a lawful object and are not hereby expressly declared to be void

Question 12

Competent for contract (Legal of Capacity)

Answer 12

1. Age of majority
2. Soundness of mind
3. Not disqualified by law

Question 13

Exceptions (Legal Capacity)

Answer 13

1. marriage
2. scholarship
3. necessaries
4. apprenticeship
5. insurance
6. agency

Question 14

Mistake as to the possibility of performing the contract (mutual mistake)

Answer 14

sheikh bros v ochsner

Question 15

types of mistake (free consent)

Answer 15

1. mutual mistake
2. unilateral mistake
3. mistake as to document

Question 16

void contract

Answer 16

agreements that have no legal effect from the beginning

Question 17

voidable contract

Answer 17

when consent to an agreement is caused by coercion, fraud, misrepresentation and undue influence

Question 18

contract for necessaries tests (legal capacity)

Answer 18

1. the nature of the goods
2. the minor’s actual needs

Question 19

apprenticeship (legal capacity)

Answer 19

Doyle v White City Stadium (1935)
The plaintiff a minor was a professional boxer. He had agreed to be bound by the rules of the Board that “if he is disqualified from the tournament, he would lose the price money”. He was then disqualified

Question 20

Contract for necessaries (case)

Answer 20

Nash v Inman
The plaintiff supplied to the defendant a student clothing worth £145. His father also had supplied the defendant proper clothes