Automated compliance and legal drafting
Introduction
The law of contract has the widest application providing the basis of formal cooperation in the society. Even one of the most prevalent theories on the origin of society i.e. the Social Contract Theory propounded by Thomas Hobbes and taken forward by John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau was based on the mutual contact between the people of the society. All of us at different occasions must fall in any form of contract. For e.g. the relation between an employer and employee, farmers with grain merchants and students with their educational institution involves a contractual relation. However, Contract is not the sport of an idle hour. For a valid Contract. Thus, for the formation of a contract there must be – (1) an agreement and (2) the agreement shall be enforceable by law. An agreement is an accepted proposal and as per the Section 2(h) of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, if it is enforceable by law it turns into a contract.