Indian Contract Act, 1872 (AIBE-9)

This 2025 edition of The Indian Contract Act, 1872 (Act 9 of 1872) presents India’s foundational statute on contracts, obligations, and specific commercial relationships. Every current amendment is fully consolidated—including the Mediation Act, 2023 (Act 32 of 2023, dt. 15-9-2023) and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 (Act 34 of 2019, w.e.f. 31-10-2019)—ensuring complete alignment with today’s legal framework.

The Act comprehensively regulates:
• General principles of contract formation—offer, acceptance, consideration, capacity, and free consent
• Void, voidable, and contingent agreements, plus wagering and restraint clauses
• Performance & discharge—time, place, reciprocal promises, assignment, novation, and impossibility (frustration)
• Breach & remedies—compensation for loss or damage, penalty clauses, and quantum-meruit claims
• Quasi-contractual obligations—supply of necessaries, payment by interested person, non-gratuitous acts, finder of goods
• Specific contracts—indemnity, guarantee, bailment, pledge, and the law of agency (creation, authority, termination)

Presented without annotations, commentary, or case law, this Bare Act offers the verbatim statutory text—ideal for precise legal practice and focused academic study.

This edition is particularly suitable for:
• AIBE aspirants and law students mastering contract law and commercial transactions
• Civil-service, judicial-service, and other competitive-exam candidates who need an unaltered statute
• Practising advocates, in-house counsel, entrepreneurs, and compliance officers negotiating, drafting, or litigating contracts
• Academicians, researchers, and policy analysts exploring contractual jurisprudence and reform trends

By supplying the exact legislative language—free from editorial additions—this edition guarantees clarity, authenticity, and reliability for courtroom citation, classroom instruction, and rigorous scholarly work.