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Free Consent

Free Consent. Consent : Two more persons are said to consent when they agree upon the same thing in the same sense. Free Consent : Consent is said to be free when it is not caused by coercion or undue influence or fraud or misrepresentation or mistake. Free Consent.

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Free Consent

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  1. Free Consent Consent :Two more persons are said to consent when they agree upon the same thing in the same sense. Free Consent :Consent is said to be free when it is not caused by coercion or undue influence or fraud or misrepresentation or mistake.

  2. Free Consent Coercion :Coercion is the committing or threatening to commit any act forbidden by penal code or the unlawful detaining, or threatening to detain any property, to the prejudice of any person whatever with the intention of causing any person to enter into an agreement. It is immaterial whether the panel code is or is not enforce in the place where the coercion is employed.

  3. Free Consent Features of coercion : • Coercion means(i) committing or threatening to commit an act forbidden by the panel code (ii) the unlawful detaining or threatening to detain any property. • The act, constituting coercion, must be directed at any person and not necessarily at other party to the agreement.

  4. Free Consent • The act, constituting coercion, must have been done or threatened with the intention of causing any person to enter into an agreement. • It does not matter whether the panel code is or is not in force in the place where the coercion is employed.

  5. Consequences of coercion It is a voidable agreement/contract Some exception : • Prosecution/ Threat to statuary compulsion • High price And high interest rates • A threat to commit suicide.

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