Contract Law Glossary

Important definitions and terminologies used in Contract Law

A

  • Ab Initio (Ab Init) in Contract Law
  • Acceptance in Contract Law
  • Agency by Estoppel in Contract Law
  • Agency in Contract Law
  • Agent in Contract Law
  • Agreement in Contract Law
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Contract Law
  • Anti-Dumping and Countervailing in Contract Law
  • Anticipatory Breach in Contract Law
  • Arbitration Clause in Contract Law
  • Arbitration in Contract Law
  • Ascertained Goods in Contract Law
  • Assignment / Novation in Contract Law
  • Assignment in Contract Law
  • Auction Sale in Contract Law
  • Auctioneer in Contract Law

B

  • Bailment in Contract Law
  • Bankruptcy in Contract Law
  • Bilateral Contract in Contract Law
  • Bill of Lading in Contract Law
  • Bona Fide in Contract Law
  • Breach of Contract in Contract Law

C

  • C. & F. Contracts in Contract Law
  • C.I.F. Contracts in Contract Law
  • Capacity to Contract in Contract Law
  • Capitalised Terms in Contract Law
  • Caveat Emptor in Contract Law
  • Classification of contracts in Contract Law
  • Coercion in Contract Law
  • Common Law and Illegality in Contract Law
  • Communication of offer and acceptance in Contract Law
  • Competition Act in Contract Law
  • Conciliation Clause in Contract Law
  • Condition in Contract Law
  • Conditional Sale in Contract Law
  • Conditions and warranties in Contract Law
  • Confidential in Contract Law
  • Confidentiality Agreement in Contract Law
  • Consideration in Contract Law
  • Consumer Protection Act in Contract Law
  • Contingent Contract in Contract Law
  • Contingent Fee Agreement in Contract Law
  • Contract Contents in Contract Law
  • Contract for Service in Contract Law
  • Contract in Contract Law
  • Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act in Contract Law
  • Contract of agency in Contract Law
  • Contract of Apprenticeship in Contract Law
  • Contract of Bailment and Pledge in Contract Law
  • Contract of Bailment for Use in Contract Law
  • Contract of Carriage of Goods in Contract Law
  • Contract of Guarantee in Contract Law
  • Contract of indemnity and guarantee in Contract Law
  • Contract of Service in Contract Law
  • Contract Writing in Contract Law
  • Counterpart in Contract Law
  • Cure Period in Contract Law

D

  • Damages in Contract Law
  • Deed in Contract Law
  • Default in Contract Law
  • Delegation in Contract Law
  • Deliverables in Contract Law
  • Delivery Order in Contract Law
  • Digital Signatures in Contract Law
  • Discharge by breach in Contract Law
  • Discharge by Impossibility of Performance in Contract Law
  • Discharge by lapse of time in Contract Law
  • Discharge by mutual agreement in Contract Law
  • Discharge by operation of law in Contract Law
  • Discharge by performance in Contract Law
  • Doctrine of Accord and Satisfaction in Contract Law
  • Doctrine of Caveat Emptor in Contract Law
  • Doctrine of Consideration in Contract Law
  • Doctrine of Novation in Contract Law
  • Doctrine of Part Performance in Contract Law
  • Doctrine of Privity of Contract in Contract Law
  • Doctrine of Promissory Estoppel in Contract Law
  • Doctrine of Quantum Meruit in Contract Law
  • Doctrine of Res Judicata in Contract Law
  • Doctrine of Waiver in Contract Law
  • Duress in Contract Law
  • Duties and Rights of an Agent in Contract Law

E

  • E-Commerce in Contract Law
  • E-Contracts in Contract Law
  • E-Signature in Contract Law
  • Earnest Money in Contract Law
  • Electronic Contracting Guidelines in Contract Law
  • Electronic Records in Contract Law
  • Entire Agreement Clause in Contract Law
  • Entire Agreement in Contract Law
  • Equitable remedies in Contract Law
  • Exceptions to the Doctrine of supervening impossibility in Contract Law
  • Excuse in Contract Law
  • Express Contract in Contract Law
  • Express Terms in Contract Law
  • Express Warranty in Contract Law

F

  • F.O.B. Contracts in Contract Law
  • Finder of lost goods in Contract Law
  • Force Majeure Clause in Contract Law
  • Force Majeure in Contract Law
  • Foreign Exchange Management Act in Contract Law
  • Fraud in Contract Law
  • Fraudulent Misrepresentation in Contract Law
  • Frustration of Contract in Contract Law
  • Future Goods in Contract Law

G

  • Gambling in Contract Law
  • Governing Law Clause in Contract Law
  • Governing Law in Contract Law
  • Gratuitous Agency in Contract Law
  • Guarantee in Contract Law

I

  • Illegal Agreements in Contract Law
  • Illegality in Contract Law
  • Implied Contract in Contract Law
  • Implied Terms in Contract Law
  • Implied Warranty in Contract Law
  • INCOTERMS 2010 in Contract Law
  • Indemnity Bond in Contract Law
  • Indemnity in Contract Law
  • Indian Contract Act in Contract Law
  • Indian Copyright Act in Contract Law
  • Indian Designs Act. in Contract Law
  • Indian Evidence Act in Contract Law
  • Indian Partnership Act in Contract Law
  • Indian Patents Act in Contract Law
  • Indian Stamp Act in Contract Law
  • Indian Trade Marks Act in Contract Law
  • Indian Trusts Act in Contract Law
  • Information Technology Act in Contract Law
  • Injunction in Contract Law
  • Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code in Contract Law
  • Insolvency in Contract Law
  • Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Contract Law
  • Intention in Contract Law
  • Inter Alia in Contract Law
  • International Commercial Litigation. in Contract Law
  • International Insurance in Contract Law
  • International Payment in Contract Law

J

  • Joint and Several Liability in Contract Law
  • Joint Venture in Contract Law
  • Jurisdiction Clause in Contract Law
  • Jurisdiction in Contract Law

K

  • Key Performance Indicator (KPI) in Contract Law

L

  • Legality of object in Contract Law
  • Liability in Contract Law
  • License in Contract Law
  • Lien in Contract Law
  • Limited liability in Contract Law
  • Liquidated Damages Clause in Contract Law
  • Liquidated Damages in Contract Law
  • Liquidation in Contract Law
  • Litigation in Contract Law

M

  • Mala Fide in Contract Law
  • Material Breach in Contract Law
  • Mediation Clause in Contract Law
  • Mediation in Contract Law
  • Memorandum of Agreement in Contract Law
  • Memorandum of Understanding in Contract Law
  • Minor in Contract Law
  • Minor’s Contract in Contract Law
  • Misrepresentation in Contract Law
  • Mistake in Contract Law
  • Mutatis Mutandis in Contract Law

N

  • Necessity Agency in Contract Law
  • Negotiable Instruments Act in Contract Law
  • Non-Assignment Clause in Contract Law
  • Non-Compete Agreement in Contract Law
  • Non-Disclosure Agreement in Contract Law
  • Novation in Contract Law

O

  • Obligation in Contract Law
  • Offer and Acceptance in Contract Law
  • Offer in Contract Law
  • Offer Lapse in Contract Law

P

  • Party in Contract Law
  • Performance Bond in Contract Law
  • Performance of contract in Contract Law
  • Period in Contract Law
  • Persons disqualified by other laws in Contract Law
  • Persons of unsound mind in Contract Law
  • Pledge in Contract Law
  • Pledge or Pawn in Contract Law
  • Power of Attorney in Contract Law
  • Principal in Contract Law
  • Pro Rata in Contract Law
  • Pro Tempore (Pro Tem) in Contract Law
  • Public Policy in Contract Law
  • Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order in Contract Law

Q

  • Quasi Contract in Contract Law
  • Quasi contracts in Contract Law
  • Quid pro quo in Contract Law

R

  • Ratification in Contract Law
  • Receivership in Contract Law
  • Recitals in Contract Law
  • Regional Trade Blocs in Contract Law
  • Remedies in Contract Law
  • Representations in Contract Law
  • Rescission in Contract Law
  • Restraint of Trade in Contract Law
  • Revocation of Offer and Acceptance in Contract Law
  • Right of Lien in Contract Law
  • Rights and Liabilities of a Buyer in Contract Law
  • Rights and Liabilities of a Seller in Contract Law
  • Rights in Contract Law
  • Rights of Surety in Contract Law
  • Risk of Loss in Contract Law

S

  • Sale and bailment in Contract Law
  • Sale by Auction in Contract Law
  • Sale by Description in Contract Law
  • Sale by non-owners in Contract Law
  • Sale by Sample in Contract Law
  • Sale in Contract Law
  • Sale of Goods (Amendment) Act in Contract Law
  • Sale of Goods Act 1930 in Contract Law
  • Sale of Goods Act in Contract Law
  • Sale on Approval in Contract Law
  • Sale on Consignment in Contract Law
  • Sale on Return in Contract Law
  • Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act in Contract Law
  • Severability in Contract Law
  • Specific Goods in Contract Law
  • Specific Performance in Contract Law
  • Specific Relief Act in Contract Law
  • Stoppage of Goods in Transit in Contract Law
  • Sub-agent in Contract Law

T

  • Term in Contract Law
  • Termination for cause in Contract Law
  • Termination for convenience in Contract Law
  • Termination of Agency in Contract Law
  • Termination of Contract in Contract Law
  • Territory in Contract Law
  • Third Party in Contract Law
  • Time is of the Essence Clause in Contract Law
  • Time is of the Essence in Contract Law
  • Transfer of ownership in goods in Contract Law
  • Transfer of Property Act in Contract Law

U

  • UN – CISG in Contract Law
  • UNCITRAL in Contract Law
  • Unconscionability in Contract Law
  • Unconscionable Contracts in Contract Law
  • Undue Influence in Contract Law
  • Unilateral Contract in Contract Law
  • Unlawful Consideration and Unlawful Object in Contract Law
  • Unpaid Seller in Contract Law
  • Unpaid Seller’s Right of Resale in Contract Law

V

  • Valid Acceptance in Contract Law
  • Valid Offer in Contract Law
  • Variation in Contract Law
  • Void Agreement in Contract Law
  • Void in Contract Law
  • Voidable Contract in Contract Law

W

  • Wagering Agreement in Contract Law
  • Waiver in Contract Law
  • Warranties in Contract Law
  • Warranty in Contract Law
  • World Trade Organization (WTO) in Contract Law
  • Writ of Possession in Contract Law
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