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📘 Law of Contract | 2nd Edition
✒️ Authored by: Prof. (Dr.) Rajni Malhotra Dhingra | Language: English

The Law of Contract presents the Indian law of obligations in clear, practical, and illustration-led terms, making it an indispensable text for students, practitioners, and academicians. This 2nd Edition explains the logic behind every major provision of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 and the Specific Relief Act, 1963, with updated references to Supreme Court and High Court rulings, classroom-tested hypotheticals, charts, and case-based illustrations.

🔍 Key Features:

  • ⚖️ Doctrinal Precision with Rationale – provisions explained alongside their underlying policies and judicial treatments.

  • 📊 Illustration-led Learning – flowcharts, hypotheticals, and comparison tables that simplify complex concepts.

  • 📚 Case-law Integration – concise case notes and principle-based explanations aid memory and analysis.

  • 📝 Assessment Support – end-of-chapter MCQs, short notes, and problem questions with answer pointers.

  • 🛠️ Remedies in Practice – stepwise coverage of specific performance, injunctions, substituted performance, declaratory relief, rectification, rescission, and cancellation.

  • 🌐 Contemporary Themes – includes e-contracts, electronic signatures, standard-form contracts, unconscionability, and restitution.

  • 🎓 Aligned with BCI Syllabi – structured to support semester teaching, continuous assessment, and final exams.

  • 👩‍🏫 Author Expertise – Prof. (Dr.) Rajni Malhotra Dhingra, a senior academic with two decades of teaching and research experience, widely published and an editor of reputed legal journals.

  • ⚖️ Teaching–Practice Bridge – blends doctrinal clarity with courtroom relevance, ideal for moot prep, seminars, and chamber research.

  • 🏛️ Contextual Integration – discusses evolution of contract law in India, its interface with property/commercial statutes, and modern themes like IT and online contracting.

📖 Coverage of the Book:

Part I — Indian Contract Act, 1872

  • Foundations of contractual obligation

  • Formation of contracts (proposal, acceptance, revocation, electronic contracting)

  • Consideration & privity, capacity to contract, free consent

  • Legality of object and consideration, public policy issues

  • Contingent & quasi-contracts, restitution and unjust enrichment

  • Performance & discharge of contracts (novation, frustration, breach)

  • Damages & remedies (liquidated damages, penalties, restitutionary measures)

  • Special contracts: indemnity, guarantee, bailment, pledge, and agency

Part II — Specific Relief Act, 1963

  • Framework of remedies under SRA

  • Specific performance & substituted performance

  • Injunctions (perpetual, mandatory, negative covenants, interim relief)

  • Declaratory relief

  • Rectification, rescission & cancellation of contracts

Integrated Contemporary Themes:

  • Standard-form and unfair contracts

  • Consumer law intersections

  • Digital contracts & e-signatures

  • Drafting cautions, litigation pitfalls, and quantification of damages

🎯 Recommended For:

  • LL.B. (3 & 5 years) & LL.M. Students – exam-ready treatment with summaries, illustrations, and Q&A.

  • Judicial Service & Competitive Exam Aspirants – doctrine with leading precedents for quick recall.

  • Law Teachers & Researchers – classroom-friendly design with comparative insights.

  • Practitioners & In-house Counsel – a compact yet comprehensive guide for advisory and litigation work.

This 2nd Edition of Law of Contract by Prof. (Dr.) Rajni Malhotra Dhingra is a pedagogically rich, analytically strong, and practice-oriented resource, serving as a bridge between theory and application in the field of contract and specific relief law in India.