 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1868 - 724 pages
...person for whom the act is done, or who is so represented, is called the principal. 181. Any person who is of the age of majority according to the law to which he is subject, and who is of sound mind, may employ an agent. 182. As between the principal and third persons, any person may become an agent... | |
 | India, Fendall Currie - Criminal law - 1872 - 1084 pages
...difficulty; for Section 2 of that Act lays it down that " every person is competent to contract who is the age of majority according to the law to which...from contracting by any law to which he is subject." Cowell, in his seventh Lecture on Hindoo Law, pp. 173-181, discusses this question, and towards the... | |
 | India - Contracts - 1878 - 710 pages
...with. First, Competent we have a definition of a ' competent perpersou. son,' viz., a person who is (1) of the age of majority according to the law to which he is subject; (2) of sound mind; and (3) not disqualified by any law to which he is subject, as, for instance, in... | |
 | India, Charles Colin Macrae - Contracts - 1874 - 274 pages
...pp. 42, 43.) 11. Every person is competent to contract who is of (a) the aee of majority competent according to the law to which he is subject, and who is of sound mind, and is not (b) disqualified from contr.-icting by any law to which he is subject. The general question which is... | |
 | Jogindra Chandra Maulik - 1875 - 222 pages
...Meherunnissa v. Abdool Gunuee). Who can grant apattah ? — Every person is competent to grant a pattah " who is of the age of majority according to the law...from contracting by any law to which he is subject" (section 11, Act IX of 1872). Minors are therefore incompetent to grant a lease. Minority expires in... | |
 | Arthur George Macpherson - Mortgages - 1877 - 326 pages
...think proper if there be no stipulation on the subject. CHAPTER III. OF PERSONS CAPABLE OP MORTGAGING. EVERY person is competent to contract who is of the...from contracting by any law to which he is subject (a) . The right to mortgage is primd facie incident to the right of property, and co-extensive with... | |
 | Sir Ernest John Trevelyan - Children - 1878 - 528 pages
...lawful object, and are not hereby expressly declared to be void." • The same Act 6 declares that " every person is competent to contract who is of the...majority according to the law to which he is subject, 1 Maepherson on Contracts, p. 20 ; and Macnaghten.s Principles of " homedan Law, pp. 43 & 63. Seepoat,... | |
 | Sir Ernest John Trevelyan - Children - 1878 - 526 pages
...minors, the Indian Contract Act 1 provides as follows : — " Section 247. — A person who is under the age of majority, according to the law to which he is subject, may be admitted to the benefits of partnership, but cannot be made personally liable for any obligation... | |
 | India, Patrick Dunlop Shaw - Negotiable instruments - 1882 - 362 pages
...writing or in the presence of witnesses, or any law relating to the registration of documents. 11. Every person is competent to contract who is of the...from contracting by any law to which he is subject. 44. Where two or more persons have made a joint promise, a release of one of such joint promisors by... | |
 | William Fischer Agnew - Trusts and trustees - 1882 - 638 pages
...The Indian Contract Act provides that— " Every person is competent to contract who is of the a°;e of majority according to the law to which he is subject,...from contracting by any law to which he is subject: " 1 And a person is said to be of sound mind for the purpose of making a contract if, at the time when... | |
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Every person is competent to contract who is of the age of majority according to the law to which he is subject and who is of sound mind, and is not disqualified from contracting by any law to which he is subject. 
