UPSC Mains Law Paper Topic : Contract of Agency
- What is ‘ratification’ and what are its essentials? (93/II/3a/30)
- An agency coupled with interest cannot, in the absence of an express contract, be terminated.” Examine. (95/II/5b/20)
- An agent is person employed to do any act for another in dealing with third parties.’ Examine. (96/II/5c/20)
- An agent cannot personally enforce a (Main) Law—Topic Wise Paper 76 contract entered into by him on behalf of the principal, nor is he personally bound by them.” Examine. (97/II/5c/20)
- No consideration is necessary to create an agency. Explain, giving reasons. (99/II/5b(i)/10)
- Critically examine the legal basis, scope and extent of the liability of a principal for the misrepresentations made or frauds committed by his agent. Would it be correct to say that the said liability is an extension of the principle of various liability? (99/II/6a/30)
- An agency coupled with interest cannot be terminated in the absence of an express contract.” Discuss. Also discuss as to when is an agency irrevocable. (01/II/6a/30)
- The defendant husband and his wife lived in a suite of a hotel where he was the manager and the wife acted as manageress. They had no domestic establishment of their own. The wife incurrent with a tradesman a debt for clothes, payment of which was demanded from the husband. Discuss the liability of the husband to pay off the debt. (01/II/ 7b/30)
- Discuss the rights and obligations of undisclosed principal and his agent vis- a-vis the other party to the contract. (02/II/8a/30)
- The authority of an agent means his capacity to bind the principal”. Discuss. (05/II/5d/20)
- X, a wholesale cloth dealer, appoints Y as his agent for the sale of cloth on the basis of 5% commission on the sale made by him. Y had an agreement with his principal X that he could retain part of the same amount of goods to adjust the commission due to him. X terminates the agency of Y. Y refuses to hand over the cloth in his possession to X, and claims that he is vested with authority coupled with interest and that agency cannot be terminated. Decide. (06/II/6b/30)
- Agency in law connotes an authority or capacity in one person to create legal relations between a person occupying the position of principal and third parties.” Critically discuss the concept of ‘agency’. Explain the duties of an agent to principal. (06/II/6a/30)
- The essential characteristic of an agent is that he is invested with a legal power to alter his principal’s legal relations with third parties; the principal is under a co-relative liability to have his legal relations altered’. Discuss. A enters into a contract with B to sell him 500 bales of cotton and afterwards discovers that B was acting as agent for C. Who is liable to A for the price of the cotton? (09/II/6b/30)
