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A brings goods to B's warehouse on the due day after closing time, and they are refused. Result?Read the answer and worked solution →A undertakes to deliver a thousand maunds of jute to B, with no place fixed. What must A do?Read the answer and worked solution →Who can prescribe the manner or time of performance under Section 50?Read the answer and worked solution →At A's request B posts cash due to A, properly addressed. When is the debt discharged?Read the answer and worked solution →B owes A Rs 2,000 and A accepts some of B's goods in reduction of it. Effect?Read the answer and worked solution →In reciprocal promises to be performed simultaneously, when need a promisor perform?Read the answer and worked solution →A is to deliver goods against payment on delivery. When need A deliver?Read the answer and worked solution →When the contract fixes the order of reciprocal promises, what rules?Read the answer and worked solution →A is to build a house for B at a fixed price. Which promise comes first?Read the answer and worked solution →One party prevents the other from performing a reciprocal promise. The contract becomes what?Read the answer and worked solution →B is ready to do work for A, but A prevents him. Who holds the option to rescind?Read the answer and worked solution →A defaults in the promise that had to be performed first. What follows?Read the answer and worked solution →A sells goods for later delivery. B must pay within a week but does not. Result?Read the answer and worked solution →Time is of the essence and the promisor fails to perform on time. The contract becomes what?Read the answer and worked solution →A promisee accepts late performance under a voidable contract. When can he still claim compensation?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the status of an agreement to do an act impossible in itself?Read the answer and worked solution →A contract is valid, but its act later becomes impossible by an event the promisor could not prevent. Result?Read the answer and worked solution →A promisor knew the act was impossible; the promisee did not. Owed?Read the answer and worked solution →A and B contract to marry, but A goes mad before the date. What happens to the contract?Read the answer and worked solution →A contracts to take in cargo at a foreign port, then war is declared on that country. Result?Read the answer and worked solution →An actor is too ill to act on several nights of a six-month deal. Effect?Read the answer and worked solution →In an alternative promise with one legal and one illegal branch, what can be enforced?Read the answer and worked solution →A is to deliver rice or smuggled opium to B. What is the legal result?Read the answer and worked solution →A debtor owing several debts pays and indicates which one. How is the payment applied?Read the answer and worked solution →Neither debtor nor creditor appropriates a payment. In what order is it applied?Read the answer and worked solution →No appropriation is made and the debts are of equal standing. How is the payment applied?Read the answer and worked solution →Parties agree to a new contract replacing the old. Old contract?Read the answer and worked solution →A, B and C agree B will accept C as debtor in place of A. Effect?Read the answer and worked solution →B tells A to credit C in A's books for B's debt, but C does not assent. Result?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these may a promisee do under Section 63?Read the answer and worked solution →

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A brings goods to B's warehouse on the due day after closing time, and they are refused. Result?

  1. A has performed
  2. B must accept them
  3. The contract is void
  4. A has not performed
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Correct answer: D. A has not performed

Delivery after the usual hours of business is not proper performance, so B's refusal does not put him in breach.

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A undertakes to deliver a thousand maunds of jute to B, with no place fixed. What must A do?

  1. Leave it at B's gate
  2. Sell it somewhere else
  3. Wait until B calls for it
  4. Ask B for a proper place
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Correct answer: D. Ask B for a proper place

Because no place was fixed, A has to ask B to appoint a reasonable place and deliver the jute there.

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Who can prescribe the manner or time of performance under Section 50?

  1. The promisee himself
  2. The court of law
  3. The promisor alone
  4. A third-party agent
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Correct answer: A. The promisee himself

Performance in any manner or at any time the promisee prescribes or sanctions is good performance.

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