Contract law worksheet with answers

Under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, a business cannot exclude or restrict liability for:

1. AAny damage to the other party's property
2. BDeath or personal injury caused by negligence
3. CLoss of profit caused by a supplier
4. DLate delivery of goods in a business sale

In English law, a term whose breach allows termination only if the consequences are serious is called:

1. AA condition
2. BAn innominate (intermediate) term
3. CA warranty
4. DA representation

Which elements are generally needed to form a contract?

1. AA witness for each party
2. BA written document signed by both parties and certified by a notary
3. CAn offer and an acceptance, with the intention to be legally bound
4. DA payment made in advance

Sailors are promised extra wages for sailing a ship home after two crew members desert, but they do no more than their contract already required. In Stilk v Myrick the promise was:

1. AUnenforceable for lack of consideration
2. BEnforceable as a practical benefit
3. CEnforceable because the captain agreed freely
4. DUnenforceable because it was made at sea

Under UCTA 1977, a business-to-business clause excluding liability for property damage caused by negligence is valid:

1. AOnly if signed by a company director
2. BOnly if it satisfies the requirement of reasonableness
3. CAlways, because businesses can bargain freely
4. DNever, in any circumstances

An unusual and onerous term in standard conditions will only be incorporated if:

1. AIt is printed anywhere in the contract documents, however small the type
2. BIt was fairly and reasonably brought to the other party's attention
3. CThe other party could have found it online
4. DIt appears on the back of a receipt

Which statement about the parol evidence rule is correct?

1. AEvidence outside a written contract is generally not admitted to add to or vary its terms
2. BWritten contracts can never be interpreted
3. COral contracts are always invalid
4. DCourts must accept any later oral statement as overriding the express written terms of the contract

A posts an offer. A week later A posts a revocation. B receives the offer and immediately accepts by telegram, and only later receives the revocation. Applying Byrne v Van Tienhoven:

1. AA contract was made when B accepted, because the revocation had not yet arrived
2. BThere was no contract, because offers by post can be revoked at any time
3. CA contract was made only when B received the revocation
4. DThere was no contract, because the revocation was posted before B's acceptance was sent