CAF-4 · Chapter 8 · Question 10 of 12
What is the consequence if a party to a contract prevents the other party from performing his promise?
Test yourself: pick an answer
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: B) The contract becomes voidable at the option of the party so prevented.
Explanation
Section 53 states that when one party prevents the other from performing, the contract becomes voidable at the option of the party prevented.
More Performance of contract MCQs
- Q12In a contract where 'time is of the essence', a failure to perform at the fixed time makes the contract:
- Q1When a party to a contract has refused to perform, or disabled himself from performing, his promise in its entirety, the promisee may:
- Q2If it appears from the nature of the case that it was the intention of the parties that the promise should be performed by the promisor…
- Q3When two or more persons have made a 'joint promise', then, unless a contrary intention appears, the liability to perform the promise…
- Q4The promisee may compel __________ of the joint promisors to perform the whole of the promise.