Here we collected all the unique English words used by the legislature for constituting and drafting The Indian Contract Act. We shall gradually explain the use and inherent meaning attached to each word.
- Abide
- Able
- About
- Absence
- Absents
- Absolute
- Absolutely
- Abstain
- Abstained
- Abstains
- Abstinence
- Accept
- Acceptance
- Accepted
- Accepting
- Acceptor
- Accepts
- According
- Accordingly
- Account
- Accounts
- Acquiescence
- Acquired
- Act
- Active
- Acts
- Actual
- Actually
- Addressed
- Adduced
- Adopts
- Advance
- Advanced
- Advantage
- Advantageous
- Advertised
- Affect
- Affected
- Affection
- Afford
- Affords
- After
- Afterward
- Again
- Against
- Age
- Agency
- Agent
- Agree
- Agreed
- Agreement
- Agrees
- All
- Alleged
- Alone
- Already
- Also
- Alter
- Alteration
- Alternative
- Although
- Amend
- Among
- Amount
- Amounting
- Amounts
- Annas
- Annually
- Annulment
- Another
- Any
- Anything
- Apparent
- Appear
- Appears
- Application
- Applied
- Applies
- Apply
- Apply
- Appoint
- Appointed
- Appropriates
- Appropriation
- Are/is
- Arisen
- Arising
- Arose
- Arrangement
- Arrear
- Arrears
- Arrival
- Arrive
- Arrived
- Arriving
- Article
- Articles
- Ascertained
- Ascertaining
- Aside
- Assent
- Assertion
- Assets
- Assume
- Asylum
- Attendant
- Auction
- Authority
- Authorized
- Avails
- Average
- Avoid
- Avoidable
- Aware
- Away
- Badly
- Bail Bond
- Bailee
- Bailment
- Balance
- Bales
- Bales
- Banker
- Banks
- Bargain
- Barred
- Bear
- Because
- Become
- Becomes
- Becoming
- Been
- Before
- Behalf
- Being
- Belief
- Believe
- Believes
- Belonging
- Benefit
- Bengal
- Between
- Beyond
- Bind
- Binding
- Board
- Boat
- Bodily
- Bombay
- Bond
- Books
- Borrows
- Both
- Bound
- Branch
- Breach
- Breaks
- Bring
- Brings
- Broken
- Brought
- Build
- Builder
- Builder’s
- Builds
- Burden
- Burnt
- Business
- But
- Buy
- Buyer
- Buys
- Calcutta
- Called
- Can
- Cannot
- Capable
- Capacity
- Caps
- Cargo
- Carriage
- Carried
- Carrier
- Carries
- Carry
- Carrying
- Case
- Cases
- Cast
- Cause
- Caused
- Causes
- Causing
- Ceases
- Cent
- Central
- Certain
- Change
- Chapter
- Charge
- Charged
- Chartered
- Child
- Children
- Circumstances
- Claim
- Claim
- Claimed
- Claiming
- Clause
- Click
- Close
- Closing
- Cloth
- CoconutOil
- Code
- Coercion
- Collateral
- Come
- Comes
- Coming
- Commencement
- Commerce
- Commit
- Committed
- Committing
- Common
- Communicate
- Communicated
- Communicating
- Communication
- Company
- Compel
- Compellable
- Compelled
- Compensate
- Compensation
- Competent
- Complaining
- Complete
- Conceal
- Concealment
- Concert
- Concubinage
- Condition
- Conditions
- Conduct
- Conducting
- Conform
- Connected
- Connivance
- Consent
- Consequence
- Consequences
- Consequent
- Consideration
- Considerations
- Considered
- Considering
- Considers
- Consignee
- Consisting
- Consists
- Contained
- Containing
- Contains
- Context
- Contingencies
- Contingent
- Continuance
- Contract
- Contracted
- Contracting
- Contracts
- Contrary
- Contribute
- Contribution
- Convert
- Convey
- Conveyance
- Conveyed
- Conveying
- Cost
- Cotton
- Could
- Country
- Course
- Court
- Created
- Credit
- Creditor
- Creditors
- Criminal
- Custody
- Custom
- Daim
- Damage
- Date
- Daughter
- Daughter
- Day
- Dead
- Dealer
- Death
- Debt
- Debtor
- Debts
- Deceased
- Deceive
- Declared
- Declares
- Declines
- Deemed
- Default
- Defaulter
- Defeat
- Define
- Defined
- Definite
- Delay
- Delayed
- Delays
- Delirious
- Delirium
- Deliver
- Deliver
- Delivered
- Delivered
- Delivering
- Delivers
- Delivery
- Demand
- Demand
- Demanded
- Demands
- Demands
- Denies
- Deny
- Deposit
- Deriving
- Description
- Desire
- Despatched
- Detain
- Detained
- Detaining
- Detention
- Determining
- Devider
- Devolution
- Die
- Dies
- Difference
- Diligence
- Disabled
- Discharge
- Discharged
- Discover
- Discovered
- Discovering
- Discretion
- Disease
- Dispense
- Dispensed
- Disqualified
- Distinct
- Distress
- Division
- Documents
- Does
- Doing
- Dominate
- Done
- Donee
- Donor
- Down
- Drop
- Drunk
- Drunkenness
- Due
- Duly
- During
- Duty
- Each
- Earned
- Edition
- Effect
- Eight
- Either
- Elects
- Employ
- Employed
- Employes
- Employment
- Employs
- Enabled
- Enacted
- Enclose
- End
- Enfeebled
- Enforce
- Enforceable
- Enforced
- Enforcement
- Engagement
- Engages
- England
- English
- Enjoying
- Enjoys
- Enter
- Entered
- Entering
- Enters
- Entirety
- Entitle
- Entitled
- Entrusted
- Equal
- Equally
- Equivalent
- Erect
- Erroneous
- Erroneously
- Essence
- Essential
- Estate
- Estimating
- Event
- Every
- Evidence
- Examines
- Exceeding
- Exceeds
- Except
- Exception
- Excess
- Excessive
- Excused
- Execute
- Executed
- Exercise
- Exercising
- Existed
- Existence
- Expected
- Expedient
- Expense
- Expense
- Expenses
- Expiration
- Expired
- Explanation
- Express
- Express
- Expressed
- Expressions
- Expressly
- Extend
- Extends
- Extent
- Extinguishes
- Face
- Facilities
- Fact
- Factory
- Facts
- Fails
- Failure
- Falls
- Falsely
- Far
- Favour
- Fever
- Fiduciary
- Finder
- Finds
- Finish
- Fire
- First
- Firstly
- Fit
- Fitted
- Five
- Fixed
- Following
- Follows
- For
- Forbidden
- Forbids
- Force
- Foregoing
- Foreign
- Forfeits
- Form
- Former
- Forming
- Forms
- Forward Contracts
- Forwarded
- Found
- Fraud
- Fraudulent
- Fraudulently
- Free
- Freely
- Freight
- Freights
- Fresh
- From
- Fulfil
- Furnish
- Furnished
- Further
- Future
- Gains
- Gambling
- Game
- Generality
- Generally
- Gift
- Give
- Given
- Gives
- Go
- Goes
- Good
- Goods
- Goodwill
- Government
- Grain
- Granary
- Grant
- Granted
- Gratuitously
- Greater
- Grounded
- Guarantee
- Had
- Hales
- Happen
- Happened
- Happens
- Has
- Have
- Having
- He
- Her
- Here
- Hereby
- Herein
- Herself
- High
- Higher
- Him
- Himself
- Hire
- Hires
- His
- Holds
- Horse
- Horse
- HorseRace
- HorseRacing
- Hour
- Hours
- House
- However
- Hundred
- If
- Ignorance
- Ignorant
- Ill
- Illegal
- Illness
- Illustration
- Immaterial
- Immoral
- Immovable
- Implied
- Implies
- Implying
- Impossibility
- Impossible
- Impossible
- Inadequacy
- Inadequate
- Incapable
- Incident
- Includes
- Including
- Inconsistent
- Inconvenience
- Increased
- Incumbrance
- Incurred
- Indebted
- Indebted
- Indemnity
- India
- Indian
- Indicated
- Indicating
- Indication
- Indigo
- Indirect
- Induce
- Induced
- Induces
- Infant
- Influence
- Inform
- Information
- Informed
- Informing
- Informs
- Injured
- Injury
- Innocently
- Insist
- Insolvent
- Instalment
- Instead
- Instituted
- Instrument
- Intelligence
- Intended
- Intending
- Intends
- Intent
- Intention
- Interest
- Interest
- Interested
- Interests
- Interpretation
- Intervals
- Intimate
- Intimation
- Intimidation
- Into
- Involves
- Iron
- It
- Item
- Itself
- Jammu
- January
- Joint
- Jointly
- Judgment
- June
- Just
- Jute
- Kashmir
- Keeping
- Kind
- Knew
- Know
- Knowing
- Knowledge
- Known
- Knows
- Land
- Landed
- Last
- Lasts
- Late
- Latter
- Law
- Lawful
- Lawfully
- Leads
- Lease
- Leaves
- Legal
- Legalize
- Legally
- Legislature
- Lent
- Let
- Letter
- Letting
- Liabilities
- Liability
- Liable
- Liberty
- Lies
- Life
- Lifetime
- Like
- Likely
- Limitation
- Limitations
- Limits
- Lines
- Lives
- Living
- Loan
- Local
- Long
- Longer
- Lose
- Loses
- Loss
- Lost
- Love
- Lunatic
- Machine
- Machine
- Machinery
- Mad
- Made
- Magic
- Maintain
- Majority
- Make
- Makes
- Making
- Man
- Manager
- Manner
- Manufacture
- Manufacturer
- March
- Market
- Market
- Marriage
- Married
- Marries
- Marry
- Matter
- Maunds
- Maunds
- Mauritius
- May
- Meaning
- Means
- Measure
- Medical
- Mental
- Mentioned
- Mercantile
- Merchandise
- Mere
- Merely
- Might
- Mill
- Mind
- Minor
- Minority
- Mirzapur
- Misleading
- Misrepresentation
- Mistake
- Mistakes
- Misuse
- Mode
- Moment
- Money
- Money
- MoneyLender
- Month
- Month
- Monthly
- Months
- More
- Mortgage
- Mortgage Debt
- Much
- Mukhtar
- Must
- Must—
- Mutually
- Named
- Namely
- Natural
- Naturally
- Nature
- Near
- Necessaries
- Necessarily
- Necessary
- Need
- Neglect
- Neglects
- Neither
- Nevertheless
- New
- Next
- Night
- None
- Non Fulfilment
- Non Gratuitous
- Non Performance
- Nor
- Not
- Note
- Nothing
- Notice
- Notwithstanding
- Novation
- Now
- Object
- Obligation
- Obliged
- Obtain
- Obtainable
- Obtained
- Obtaining
- Obtains
- Occasionally
- Occasioned
- Occasions
- Of
- Off
- Offence
- Offer
- Offered
- Oil
- Old
- Omission
- Omitted
- On
- One
- OneHalf
- Only
- Operates
- Opinion
- Opium
- Opportunities
- Opportunity
- Opposed
- Option
- Or
- Order
- Orders
- Ordinary
- Ore
- Original
- Other
- Others
- Otherwise
- Ought
- Out
- Over
- Owe
- Owed
- Owes
- Owing
- Own
- Owner
- Paid
- Paint
- Parental
- Part
- Particular
- Parties
- Parts
- Party
- passage money
- Patient
- Pawnor
- pawnee
- Pay
- Payable
- Paying
- Payment
- Payments
- Pays
- Penal
- Penalty
- Penalty
- Per
- Perform
- Performance
- Performed
- Performing
- Permanently
- Permitted
- Person
- Personally
- Personally
- Persons
- Picture
- Piece
- Place
- Places
- Plate
- Pledge
- Point
- Policy
- Polygamy
- Port
- Port
- Position
- Positive
- Possession
- Possible
- Post
- Post
- Posted
- Posts
- Power
- Practise
- Practised
- Practises
- Preamble
- Prejudice
- Preparation
- Prescribed
- Prescribes
- Presence
- Prevent
- Prevented
- Preventing
- Prevents
- Price
- Prices
- Principal
- Principle
- Private
- Prize
- Prizes
- Proceed
- Proceedings
- Proceeds
- Procure
- Procuring
- Profession
- Professional
- Profit
- Profitable
- Profits
- Prohibited
- Promise
- Promised
- Promisee
- Promises
- Promising
- Promisor
- Promissory
- Proper
- Property
- Proportionably
- Proposal
- Proposer
- Proposes
- Proposing
- Proprietor
- Prosecution
- Prove
- Proved
- Provide
- Provided
- Proving
- Provisions
- Public
- Punishable
- Purchase
- Purchaser
- Purchasing
- Purpose
- Purpose
- Purposes
- Purse
- Put
- Puts
- Quality
- Quantity
- Question
- Railway
- Rate
- Rational
- Reaches
- Reaching
- Ready
- Real
- Reason
- Reasonable
- Reasonable
- Rebuilding
- Re Built
- Receive
- Received
- Received
- Receives
- Receiving
- Reciprocal
- Reciprocally
- Recognizance
- Recover
- Recovering
- Recovery
- Redeemed
- Reduction
- Refrain
- Refund
- Refusal
- Refused
- Refuses
- Regard
- Regards
- Registered
- Registers
- Registration
- Regulation
- Reimbursed
- Reimbursement
- Relating
- Relation
- Relations
- Release
- Released
- Reliance
- Remaining
- Remedying
- Remit
- Remote
- Render
- Renders
- Rent
- Remuneration
- Renunciation
- Repair
- Repair
- Repairs
- Repay
- Repayment
- Repealed
- Representations
- Representative
- Representatives
- Represents
- Required
- Requires
- Rescind
- Rescinding
- Rescission
- Resembling
- Respect
- Respective
- Respectively
- Responsibility
- Responsible
- Restore
- Restrained
- Restraint
- Rests
- Result
- Retains
- Return
- Returns
- Revenue
- Revocation
- Revoke
- Revoked
- Revokes
- Revoking
- Rewarded
- Rice
- Right
- Rightfully
- Rights
- Rise
- Robbery
- Ruined
- Rules
- Rupee
- Rupees
- Said
- Sail
- Sailed
- Sailing
- Salary
- Sale
- Saltpetre
- Same
- Sanctioned
- Sanctions
- Sane
- Satisfaction
- Satisfying
- Saves
- Saving
- Says
- Scaffolding
- Seas
- Season
- Secondly
- Section
- Sections
- Security
- See
- Seeing
- Seem
- Sell
- Sells
- Send
- Sends
- Sense
- Senses
- Sent
- September
- Service
- Services
- Set
- Setting
- Settle
- Settlement
- Seventh
- Several
- Shall
- Shares
- Sharing
- She
- Ship
- Ship
- Short
- Should
- Show
- Signed
- Signified
- Signifies
- Signs
- Silence
- Similar
- Simultaneously
- Sing
- Sing
- Singer
- Single
- Sings
- Sinks
- Situated
- Smuggled
- So
- Sold
- Some
- Something
- Son
- Soon
- Sound
- Space
- Speaks
- Specially
- Specific
- Specified
- Speech
- Standing
- Stands
- Start
- Starting
- State
- Stated
- Statute
- Still
- Stipulated
- Stipulates
- Stipulation
- Stock
- stock-in-trade
- Stopped
- Straight
- Stringency
- Stun
- Subject
- subject matter
- Subscribe
- Subscription
- SubSection
- Subsisting
- Substance
- Substitute
- Succeed
- Such
- Sues
- Suffers
- Sufficient
- Suggestion
- Suit
- Suitable
- Suited
- Sum
- Sums
- Sung
- Sunk
- Superintend
- Suplies
- Supplied
- Supplies
- Supply
- Supplying
- Support
- Supposed
- Sureties
- Surety
- Surgeon
- Survives
- Survivor
- Survivors
- Sustain
- Sustained
- Sustains
- Sydney
- Take
- Taken
- Taken
- Takes
- Telegram
- Telegram
- Tell
- Telling
- Temporarily
- Tendered
- Termination
- Terms
- Than
- That
- The
- Theatre
- Their
- Them
- Then
- Thenceforth
- There
- Thereby
- Therefore
- Therein
- Thereof
- Thereto
- Thereunder
- Thereupon
- Therewith
- These
- They
- Thing
- Things
- Thinks
- Third
- This
- Those
- Though
- Thousand
- Threatening
- Through
- Thus
- Till
- Timber
- Time
- Title
- Together
- Totally
- Toward
- Trade
- Traders
- Tradesman
- Traffic
- Transaction
- Transfer
- Transferred
- Transmission
- Treasure
- Treats
- Trouble
- True
- Truth
- Turns
- Unable
- Uncertain
- Uncertainty
- Unconditional
- Unconscionable
- Under
- Understand
- Understanding
- Undertake
- Undertaken
- Undertakes
- Under Value
- Undue
- Unfair
- Unlawful
- Unless
- Unless—
- Unqualified
- Unreasonable
- Unreasonably
- Unsound
- Unsoundness
- Unspecified
- Until
- Unusually
- Up
- Upon
- Upto
- Upwards
- Usage
- Use
- Used
- Uses
- Usual
- Usually
- Valid
- Validity
- Value
- Vessel
- View
- Village
- Voidable
- Void
- Voidability
- Voidable
- Voidable
- Voluntarily
- Voyage
- Wager
- Want
- War
- Warehouse
- Warranted
- Warranting
- Warranty
- Was
- Way
- Week
- Were
- What
- Whatever
- When
- Where
- Whereas
- Whereby
- Whether
- Which
- Whilst
- White
- Who
- Whole
- Wholly
- Whom
- Whose
- Wife
- Wilfully
- Will
- Willing
- Willingness
- Winner
- Winners
- With
- Within
- Without
- Witnesses
- Won
- Words
- Work
- Working
- Worth
- Would
- Wrecked
- Writes
- Writing
- Written
- Wrongfully
- Year
- Yearly
- Zamindar
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