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CA Foundation Consideration — practice questions

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Consideration in a contract must beRead the answer and worked solution →Consideration is defined under which section of the Indian Contract Act, 1872?Read the answer and worked solution →The expression 'quid pro quo' used in relation to consideration means:Read the answer and worked solution →The rule that consideration may move from the promisee or any other person (a stranger to consideration) was affirmed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The principle that 'a stranger to a contract cannot sue upon it' is known as the doctrine of:Read the answer and worked solution →Which of the following allows a person who is not a party to a contract to nonetheless enforce it?Read the answer and worked solution →Past consideration is valid under Indian law provided that the past act was done:Read the answer and worked solution →According to Section 2(d), consideration may be:Read the answer and worked solution →As a general rule under Section 25, an agreement made without consideration is:Read the answer and worked solution →A written, signed promise to pay a debt barred by the law of limitation is enforceable without fresh consideration under:Read the answer and worked solution →Under Section 185, what consideration is necessary to create an agency?Read the answer and worked solution →In plain terms, consideration under contract law means what?Read the answer and worked solution →Under Section 2(d), an act forming consideration must be done at whose desire?Read the answer and worked solution →Under Indian law, from whom may consideration move?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these can be valid consideration under the Indian Contract Act?Read the answer and worked solution →How does English law treat past consideration, in contrast to Indian law?Read the answer and worked solution →A promises to deliver goods after a week and B promises to pay a fortnight later. This consideration isRead the answer and worked solution →A receives Rs 50 and in return promises to deliver goods to B. The Rs 50 isRead the answer and worked solution →A promises to bring B's dead wife back to life for Rs 1000. Why is there no valid consideration?Read the answer and worked solution →Do courts examine whether consideration is adequate to the promise?Read the answer and worked solution →A agrees to get B a government job for Rs one lakh. The agreement isRead the answer and worked solution →Why are marriage brokerage agreements treated as void?Read the answer and worked solution →An agreement to procure a title such as Padma Shri for money isRead the answer and worked solution →Which agreement is opposed to public policy?Read the answer and worked solution →An agreement shortening the period of limitation for suing isRead the answer and worked solution →An agreement that unduly restricts the personal liberty of a party isRead the answer and worked solution →An agreement that the wife will never leave her parental house isRead the answer and worked solution →Can a court repudiate a contract opposed to public policy even if it benefits all the parties?Read the answer and worked solution →A deal not to prosecute a company, for money, is void under which section?Read the answer and worked solution →Which form can consideration take?Read the answer and worked solution →

Worked practice questions

Consideration in a contract must be

  1. something of value moving at the desire of the promisor
  2. given only by the promisee
  3. always monetary
  4. always adequate
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Correct answer: A. something of value moving at the desire of the promisor

Section 2(d): consideration is something done/abstained at the promisor's desire it need not be adequate but must have some value.

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Consideration is defined under which section of the Indian Contract Act, 1872?

  1. Section 2(j)
  2. Section 2(g)
  3. Section 2(d)
  4. Section 2(b)
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Correct answer: C. Section 2(d)

Section 2(d) defines consideration in terms of an act, abstinence or promise made at the desire of the promisor.

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The expression 'quid pro quo' used in relation to consideration means:

  1. Something in return
  2. A lawful object
  3. Free consent
  4. Identity of minds
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Correct answer: A. Something in return

Consideration is quid pro quo, i.e. 'something in return' for the promise.

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