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CA Foundation Performance of Contract — practice questions

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'Performance of a contract' under Section 37 essentially means that the parties must:Read the answer and worked solution →Where the promisor offers to perform but the promisee refuses to accept, it is called:Read the answer and worked solution →When goods are tendered, the promisee must be given:Read the answer and worked solution →A promises to paint a picture for B. This promise must be performed by:Read the answer and worked solution →An agreement to do an act impossible in itself (initial impossibility) under Section 56 is:Read the answer and worked solution →Where a contract becomes impossible or unlawful to perform after it is made, due to an unforeseen event, it is:Read the answer and worked solution →Actual breach of a contract can be committed:Read the answer and worked solution →Under Section 37, parties to a contract must perform or do what else?Read the answer and worked solution →If a promisor dies before performing, whom does the promise bind?Read the answer and worked solution →A, a painter, promised B a portrait and died before the day. Result?Read the answer and worked solution →A valid offer of performance is refused. What is the promisor's position?Read the answer and worked solution →Which feature must every valid tender of performance have?Read the answer and worked solution →A tender of goods must let the promisee do what?Read the answer and worked solution →An offer to one of several joint promisees has what effect?Read the answer and worked solution →A party wholly refuses to perform. What may the promisee do?Read the answer and worked solution →A singer wilfully skips the sixth night of a two-month contract. What may the manager do?Read the answer and worked solution →A singer skips a night; the manager lets her sing the next. Result?Read the answer and worked solution →When must a promise be performed by the promisor personally?Read the answer and worked solution →If personal performance is not intended, who may perform instead?Read the answer and worked solution →A promises to pay B a sum of money. How may A perform?Read the answer and worked solution →After one of several joint promisors dies, who must fulfil the promise?Read the answer and worked solution →Absent contrary agreement, whom may a promisee compel to perform?Read the answer and worked solution →A, B and C jointly owe D Rs 3,000. Whom may D compel to pay the whole?Read the answer and worked solution →Absent a contrary intention, how must joint promisors share the burden of performance?Read the answer and worked solution →A promisee releases one joint promisor. What of the others?Read the answer and worked solution →A promise is made jointly to B and C. During their joint lives, who may claim performance?Read the answer and worked solution →B and C lend money jointly to A, and B dies. Who may claim repayment?Read the answer and worked solution →No time is fixed, no application due. Time for performance?Read the answer and worked solution →What kind of question is deciding what a reasonable time is?Read the answer and worked solution →A promise due on a set day, no demand needed. When may it be performed?Read the answer and worked solution →

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'Performance of a contract' under Section 37 essentially means that the parties must:

  1. Reduce the contract to writing
  2. Either perform, or offer to perform, their respective promises
  3. Register the contract
  4. Obtain court approval before acting
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Correct answer: B. Either perform, or offer to perform, their respective promises

Section 37 requires the parties to perform or offer to perform their promises unless performance is dispensed with or excused under the Act.

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Where the promisor offers to perform but the promisee refuses to accept, it is called:

  1. Attempted performance (tender)
  2. Actual performance
  3. Discharge by agreement
  4. Anticipatory breach
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Correct answer: A. Attempted performance (tender)

An offer of performance that the promisee refuses is attempted performance or tender the promisor has done what was required of him.

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When goods are tendered, the promisee must be given:

  1. A reasonable opportunity to examine the goods
  2. Time to arrange finance
  3. A discount for early delivery
  4. A written warranty
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Correct answer: A. A reasonable opportunity to examine the goods

A valid tender of goods must give the promisee a reasonable opportunity to satisfy himself that the goods are of the contracted quality and quantity.

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