3. 1. Agreement made by an incompetent person.(sec.11)
Example:-minors, persons of unsound mind and persons
disqualified by low of the land.
2. Agreement made under mutual mistake of fact,
material and bilateral.(sec.20):-where both the parties to
an agreement are under a mistake as to a matter of fact
essential to the agreement, the agreement is void
Example:- A agrees to buy from B a certain horse. It
turns was dead at the time of the bargain through neither
party was aware of the fact. The agreement is void.
4. 3. Agreement ,the consideration or objective
of which is unlawful.(sec.23):-In the following
cases the consideration or objective of an
agreement is un low full:
It is forbidden by low.
Is fraudulent.
Involve injury to the person or property of
another.
Opposed to public policy.
5. Example of unlow full conideration:-A promises to
obtain for B an employment in the public services and B
promises to pay A Rs.100/-The agreement is void as the
consideration being A’s promise to procure an employment
in the public services is opposed to public police and
hence unlowfull.
Example of unlow full objective:-A,B and C enter into
an agreement for the division among them of the gains to
be acquired by them by fraud. Because object of the
agreement is to practice fraud on other, it is unlow full.
6. 4).Agreement in restraint of marriage (sec.26):-
Every agreement in restraint of marriage of any person
other then miner is void. Therefore, if a major agrees
for consideration not to marry, the promise is not
binding.
Example:- A, a man promised not to marry any person
other then Mrs. B and further promise to pay Mrs. B
sum of Rs. 2000 if he married somebody else. held the
promise was in restraint of marriage and void.
7. 5. Agreement in restraint of trade (sec. 27) :-
Every agreement by which anyone is restrained from
exercising a lawful profession, trade or business of
any kind, is to that extent void.
6. Agreement without consideration.(sec.25):-
Example:- A promises, for no consideration, to give
to B Rs.1000.This is void agreement.
8. 7. Agreement in restraint of legal proceeding :-.
An agreement by which a party is restricted absolutely
from enforcing his legal rights arising under a contract by
the usual legal proceedings in the ordinary tribunals.
An agreement which limits the time within which
the contract rights may be enforce.
8 Agreementt the meaning of which is uncertain
(sec.29) :- Agreement the meaning of which is not certain
or capable of being made certain are void.
Example:- A agrees to sell to B a hundred tones of oil “
there is nothing whatsoever to show what kind of oil was
intended. The agreement is void for uncertainty.
9. 9. Agreement by way of wagering.(sec.30):- A
wager is an agreement between two parties to the
effect that if a given uncertain event happens, one
party shall pay a certain sum to the other, and on the
contrary event happening.
Example:-A and B agree with each other that if it
rains tomorrow, A will pay B Rs. 10 if it does not
rain tomorrow, B will pay A Rs.10. Now this is a
wagering agreement, as the event, i.e., if it rain
tomorrow is an uncertain event and there is mutual
chance of a gain and loss both for A and B.
10. 10. Agreement to do impossible event.(sec.36):
Contingent agreements to do or not to do anything, if an
impossible event happens, are void, whether the
impossibility of the event is known or not to the parties to
the agreement at the time when it is made.(sec.36)
Example:-A agrees to pay B Rs.1000 if B will marry A’s
daughter C. C was dead at the time of the agreement. The
agreement is void.
11. Agreement to do impossible act.(Sec.56):-An
agreement to do an act impossible in itself is void.
Example:-A agrees with B to discover treasure by magic.
The agreement is void.