LawgistThe Indian Contract Act
11Who are competent to contract
Every person is competent to contract who is of the age of majority according to the law to which he is subject1 , and who is of sound mind and is not disqualified from contracting by any law to which he is subject.
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1. See the Indian Majority Act, 1875 (9 of 1875).
OF CONTRACTS, VOIDABLE CONTRACTS AND VOID AGREEMENTS
- 10 What agreements are contracts
- 11 Who are competent to contract
- 12 What is a sound mind for the purposes of contracting
- 13 "Consent" defined
- 14 "Free consent" defined
- 15 "Coercion" defined
- 16 "Undue influence" defined
- 17 "Fraud" defined
- 18 "Misrepresentation" defined
- 19 Voidability of agreements without free consent
- 19A Power to set aside contract induced by undue influence
- 20 Agreement void where both parties are under mistake as to matter of fact
- 21 Effect of mistakes as to law
- 22 Contract caused by mistake of one party as to matter of fact
- 23 What considerations and objects are lawful, and what not
