Bare Act · Indian Contract Act, 1872 · Chapter II
Chapter II · Sections
10 · What agreements are contracts.
11 · Who are competent to contract.
12 · What is a sound mind for the...
13 · “Consent” defined.
14 · “Free consent” defined.
15 · “Coercion” defined.
16 · “Undue influence” defined.
17 · “Fraud” defined.
18 · “Misrepresentation” defined.
19 · Voidability of agreements without...
19A · Power to set aside contract...
20 · Agreement void where both parties...
21 · Effect of mistakes as to law.
22 · Contract caused by mistake of one...
23 · What considerations and objects...
24 · Agreements void, if considerations...
25 · Agreement without consideration,...
26 · Agreement in restraint of...
27 · Agreement in restraint of trade,...
28 · Agreements in restraint of legal...
29 · Agreements void for uncertainty.
30 · Agreements by way of wager void.
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Who are competent to contract.
Every person is competent to contract who is of the age of majority according to the law to which he is subject3, and who is of sound mind, and is not disqualified from contracting by any law to which he is subject.
Footnotes (from the official text)
3 See the Indian Majority Act, 1875 (9 of 1875).
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