Quasi Contracts Multiple Choice Questions
1. When a minor is supplied with necessaries of life, the supplier
A. Cannot recover the price
B. Can recover the price
C. Can recover the price form the property of the minor
D. Can file a criminal case
2. A person enjoying the benefits of a lawful non-gratuitous act of another
A. Is liable to compensate to another
B. Is not liable to compensate to another
C. Another cannot claim any compensation
D. Both b and c
3. ‘A’, a tradesman leaves his goods at B’s house by mistake. ‘B’ uses the goods as his own. Then
A. B need not pay to A
B. B is bound to pay A
C. There is no contract
D. None of the above
4. A person who supplies ‘Necessaries’ to a minor is entitled to be reimbursed from the property of the minor on the basis of a
A. Valid Contract
B. Voidable Contract
C. Quasi Contract
D. Contingent Contract
5. Quasi Contract emerged from
A. Assumpsit
B. Indebitatus assumpsit
C. Non-feasance
D. Misfeasance
6. Which of the following is not a quasi contract?
A. Obligation of a person enjoying benefit of non gratuitous acts
B. Responsibility of finder of goods
C. Quantum merit
D. Novation
7. A person who finds goods belonging to another and takes them into his custody, is subject to the same responsibility as a
A. Bailor
B. Indemnitee
C. Agent
D. Bailee
8. A right to sue on ‘Quantum Merit’ arises when a party
A. Has fully performed the contract
B. Has partly performed the contract and is discharged by the other party
C. Both a and b
D. None of the above
9. Quasi contractual obligations are based on the theory propounded by whom?
A. Lord Wright
B. Lord Sumner
C. Anson
D. Lord Mansfield
10. Promissory estoppel is sometimes spoken of as a substitute for
A. Novation
B. Quasi contract
C. Consideration
D. Coercion