Contract law worksheet with answers

A counter-offer has which effect on the original offer?

1. AIt accepts the original offer
2. BIt makes the original offer irrevocable
3. CIt has no effect at all
4. DIt rejects and ends the original offer

Anticipatory breach occurs when:

1. AA party shows, before performance is due, that it will not perform
2. BAn expert predicts, before performance is due, that a party will probably breach
3. CA party performs earlier than the agreed date
4. DA party breaches a term that has not yet been agreed

Who can usually enforce a contract?

1. AThe parties to the contract
2. BOnly the state
3. CAnyone who hears about it or is affected by it
4. DOnly lawyers

A misrepresentation is:

1. AAn opinion that turns out to be wrong
2. BA false statement of fact that induces someone to enter a contract
3. CSilence about any fact at all
4. DA promise about future behaviour that is not kept, even if honestly made

A creditor agrees to take £600 in full settlement of a £1,000 debt that is due, then sues for the other £400. Under Pinnel's Case and Foakes v Beer, the creditor:

1. ACan recover only if the agreement was oral
2. BCannot recover anything more
3. CCan usually recover the £400
4. DMust give back the £600 first

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 because it was made at sea
2. BEnforceable as a practical benefit
3. CUnenforceable for lack of consideration
4. DEnforceable because the captain agreed freely

A rogue uses a stolen driving licence to take a car on written hire-purchase in another person's name. In Shogun Finance v Hudson, the majority of the House of Lords held:

1. AThe contract was void, because the finance company dealt only with the named person
2. BThe contract was voidable, so a later buyer got good title
3. CThe contract was valid with the rogue himself
4. DThe contract was void, because hire-purchase agreements must always be made face to face

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