Classification of Contract

All contract may be broadly classified into following three main categories: (i) According to Enforceability: Void, Voidable & Unenforceable or illegal (ii) According to Mode of Creation: Express, Implied, Contingent & Constructive or Quasi Contracts

(iii) According to Performance (a) Unilateral Contracts: Lost & Found cases (b) Bi-Lateral Contacts: (c) Executed Contract: (d) Executory Contract:

Constructive or Quasi Contracts

According to Dr Jenks, quasi contract is a situation in which law imposes upon one person, on grounds of natural justice, an obligation similar to that which arises from a true contract, although no contract, express or implied, has in fact been entered into by them.

Constructive or Quasi Contracts Quasi Contracts (Section 68-72)

It is an obligation which the law creates in the absence of any agreement. This is based up on the equitable principle that a person shall not be allowed to enrich himself at the expense of another. Sec 68 Claim for Necessaries supplied to a person incapable of contracting on his own. Sec69 Reimbursement of Person Paying money due by another, in payment of which he is interested.

Section 70: Obligation of Person enjoying benefit of non-gratuitous act. Section 71: Responsibility of finder of Goods Section 72: Liability of a person to whom money is paid, or thing delivered by mistake or under coercion.

Doctrine of Promissory Estoppel Case Law: Pournami Oils Mills v State of Kerala AIR 1987 SC 590 By order dated 11.4.79 the State Government exempted newly established small scale industries from Sale tax and Purchase Tax for a period of 5 yrs from date of commencement of production. Notification dated 21.10.1980, withdrawing exemption relating to purchase tax was challenged.