There is an old statement, "All contracts are an agreement, but all agreements are not contracts" which implies that agreement is different from a contract. Without knowing the fact, we enter into hundreds of agreement daily, which may or may not bound us legally. Those which bind us legally are known as a contract, while the rest are agreement. In this way, the Indian Contract Act came into force, which was enacted by the British Government because at that time they were ruling on India. The … [Read more...]

Rules can be described as the guidelines or instructions of doing something correctly. these are the principles that govern the conduct or behavior or a person in an organization or country. On the other hand, regulations refer to the directives or statute enforced by law, in a particular country. The primary difference between rules and regulation is that while the former do not as such have a legal binding, the latter have a legal binding. As these two terms are used in the same breath, … [Read more...]

At the time of entering into a legal transaction, there are two options available to the parties, i.e. agreement or memorandum of understanding. While an agreement refers to concordance between the legally competent parties, which is generally negotiated. Conversely, in Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is a type of agreement between legally competent parties, which is non-binding in nature. An MoU contains the description of understanding between the two parties, including the requirements … [Read more...]