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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Effect of mistakes as to law.
A contract is not voidable because it was caused by a mistake as to any law in force in 1[India]; but a mistake as to a law not in force in 1[India] has the same effect as a
mistake of fact.
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Illustration
A and B make a contract grounded on the erroneous belief that a particular debt is barred by the Indian Law of Limitation: the contract is not voidable.
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Footnotes (from the official text)
1 The original words ‘British India” have successively been amended by the A.O. 1948 and the A.O. 1950 to read as above.
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