When an agreement is enforceable at law, it becomes a contract. Based on validity, there are several types of contract, i.e. valid contract, void contract, illegal contract, etc. Void contract and voiadable contract are quite commonly miscontrued, but they are different. Void Contract, implies a contract which lacks enforceability by law, whereas Voidable Contract, alludes to a contract wherein one party has the right to enforce or rescind the contract, i.e. the party has to right to put the … [Read more...]

'Coercion' is the act of threatening a person, to compel him/her to enter into the contract and perform the obligation. On the contrary, 'Undue Influence' is an act of controlling the will of the other party, due to the dominant position of the first party. When the consent of any of the parties to contract is affected by coercion or undue influence, it is said that consent is not free. The essence of a contract is agreement, i.e. mutual consent, i.e. the parties to the contract agreed upon … [Read more...]

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...]