Contract law worksheet with answers

Under English law, a minor who is supplied with necessaries must pay:

1. AA reasonable price for them
2. BNothing, because minors are never bound
3. COnly if a parent signed the contract
4. DDouble the contract price

For commercial agreements, English courts presume that the parties:

1. ADo not intend to create legal relations
2. BIntend the agreement to be a gift
3. CIntend only a moral obligation
4. DIntend to create legal relations

A "voidable" contract is one that:

1. ANever had any legal effect at all
2. BCan only be ended by both parties agreeing together to cancel it
3. CIs valid until the affected party chooses to set it aside
4. DIs a criminal agreement and illegal

Under EU consumer law, a consumer who buys online usually has the right to withdraw within:

1. A14 days without giving a reason
2. B30 days, only if the goods are defective
3. CNo time, because online sales are final
4. D3 days, only with a reason

In Hadley v Baxendale, damages are recoverable for losses that:

1. AThe claimant suffered only after the trial
2. BWere caused in any factual sense by the breach, however unusual and unforeseeable they were
3. CArise naturally from the breach or were in the reasonable contemplation of both parties
4. DWere caused by a third party

A supplier receives a draft agreement, never signs or returns it, but both sides trade on its terms for years. A court is likely to find:

1. AA void agreement for lack of certainty
2. BNo contract, because nothing was signed
3. CA contract accepted by conduct
4. DA contract only for the first delivery

In Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co, the court held that the advertisement was:

1. AA contract only with the newspaper
2. BA unilateral offer that could be accepted by performing the conditions
3. CA mere advertising puff with no legal effect, since no one could take it seriously
4. DAn invitation to treat

An employer pays large severance sums to two directors, later discovering it could have dismissed them for nothing because of their earlier misconduct. In Bell v Lever Bros, the agreements were:

1. AUnenforceable because severance needs a deed
2. BVoidable for the directors' misrepresentation by failing to disclose their misconduct
3. CValid, because the mistake about quality was not fundamental enough
4. DVoid for common mistake about the contracts