Zusammenfassung der Ressource
FREE CONSENT (S.14)
- Someone should not be influenced by factors that
affect their freedom to consent to contract
- COERCION (S15)
- ~ Commit, threaten to commit any act forbidden by the Penal Code.
- ~ Unlawfully detaining or threaten to detain any property.
- Effect of coercion: According to S.19 contract voidable
- e.g: Chin Nam Bee Development Sdn Bhd v Tai Kim Choo & 4 Ors
- UNDUE INFLUENCE (S.16)
- ~ Undue influence & proof of dominant position
- * Dominant position
- * Unfair advantage
- * Influence decision
- ~ Undue influence & presume dominant position
- * Real / apparent authority
- * Fiduciary relationship
- * Mental / bodily distress
- e.g: Salwath Haneem v Hadjee Abdullah
- FRAUD (S.17)
- ~ Not true and not believe to be true
- ~ Active concealment
- ~ Promise without intention to keep
- ~ Any act to deceive
- ~ Law said it is fraudulent
- e.g : Weber v Vrown
- MISREPRESENTATION
- ~ Positive assertion of fact
- ~ Breach of duty
- ~ Causing a person to make mistake
- (S.18)
- (S.19)
- ~ Silence is not misrepresentation
- e.g: Goh Chooi Leong v Public Life Assurance Co Ltd
- MISTAKE (S.21)
- ~ Mistake of fact
- ~ Mistake of law
- ~ Unilateral mistake
- e.g: Golf Cheque Book Sdn Bhd & Anor v Nilai Springs Bhd
- e.g: Raffles v Wichelhaus - Contract void