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Indian Contract Act, 1872

Indian Contract Act, 1872, prescribes the laws relating to the formulation of contracts in India. This act consists of 238 sections. Get the detailed description of all the sections of the Indian contract Act 1872 only at easyadvocacy.

Section	Title
Section- 1	Section - 1. Short title Chapter 1
Section- 2	Section -2. Interpretation-clause Chapter 1
Section- 3	Section - 3. Communication, acceptance and revocation of proposals Chapter 1
Section- 4	Section - 4. Communication when complete Chapter 1
Section- 5	Section - 5. Revocation of proposals and acceptances. Chapter 1
Section- 6	Section -6. Revocation how made Chapter 1
Section- 7	Section - 7. Acceptance must be absolute. Chapter 1
Section- 8	Section - 8. Acceptance by performing conditions, or receiving consideration Chapter 1
Section- 9	Section -9. Promises, express and implied Chapter 1
Section- 10	Section -10. What agreements are contracts Chapter 1
Section- 11	Section - 11. Who are competent to contract. Chapter 1
Section- 12	Section - 12. What is a sound mind for the purposes of contracting Chapter 1
Section- 13	Section - 13. "Consent" defined Chapter 1
Section- 14	Section - 14. "Free consent" defined Chapter 1
Section- 15	Section - 15. "Coercion" defined Chapter 1
Section- 16	Section - 16. "Undue influence" defined Chapter 1
Section- 17	Section - 17. "Fraud" defined Chapter 1
Section- 18	Section - 18. "Misrepresentation" defined. Chapter 1
Section- 19	Section - 19. Voidability of agreements without free consent Chapter 1
Section- 19 A	Section - 19 A. Power to set aside contract induced by undue influence Chapter 1
Section- 20	Section - 20. Agreement void where both parties are under mistake as to matter of fact Chapter 1
Section- 21	Section -21. Effect of mistakes as to law. Chapter 1
Section- 22	Section - 22. Contract caused by mistake of one party as to matter of fact Chapter 1
Section- 23	Section -23. What considerations and objects are lawful, and what not Chapter 1
Section- 24	Section - 24. Agreement void, if considerations and objects unlawful in part Chapter 1
Section- 25	Section - 25. Agreement without consideration, void, unless it is in writing and registered or is a promise to compensate for something done or is a promise to pay a debt barred by limitation law Chapter 1
Section- 26	Section - 26. Agreement in restraint of marriage, void Chapter 1
Section- 27	Section - 27. Agreement in restraint of trade, void. Chapter 1
Section- 28	Section - 28. Agreements in restraint of legal proceedings, void Chapter 1
Section- 29	Section - 29. Agreements void for uncertainty Chapter 1
Section- 30	Section - 30. Agreements by way of wager void Chapter 1
Section- 31	Section - 31. "Contingent contract" defined Chapter 1
Section- 32	Section - 32. Enforcement of contracts contingent on an event happening. Chapter 1
Section- 33	Section - 33. Enforcement of contracts contingent on an event not happening Chapter 1
Section- 33	Section - 33. When event on which contract is contingent to be deemed impossible, if it is the future conduct of a living person Chapter 1
Section- 34	Section - 34. When event on which contract is contingent to be deemed impossible, if it is the future conduct of a living person Chapter 1
Section- 35	Section - 35. When contracts become void which are contingent on happening of specified event within fixed time Chapter 1
Section- 36	Section - 36. Agreement contingent on impossible events void Chapter 1
Section- 37	Section - 37. Obligation of parties to contracts. Chapter 1
Section- 38	Section - 38. Effect of refusal to accept offer of performance Chapter 1
Section- 39	Section - 39. Effect of refusal of party to perform promise wholly Chapter 1
Section- 40	Section - 40. Person by whom promise is to be performed Chapter 1
Section- 41	Section - 41. Effect of accepting performance from third person. Chapter 1
Section- 42	Section - 42. Devolution of joint liabilities Chapter 1
Section- 43	Section - 43. Any one of joint promisors may be compelled to perform. Chapter 1
Section- 44	Section - 44. Effect of release of one joint promisor Chapter 1
Section- 45	Section - 45. Devolution of joint rights Chapter 1
Section- 46	Section - 46. Time for performance of promise, when no application is to be made and no time is specified Chapter 1
Section- 47	Section - 47. Time and place for performance of promise, where time is specified and no application to be made. Chapter 1
Section- 48	Section - 48. Application for performance on certain day to be at proper time and place Chapter 1
Section- 49	Section - 49. Place for performance of promise, where no application to be made and no place fixed for performance Chapter 1
Section- 50	Section - 50. Performance in manner or at time prescribed or sanctioned by promisee Chapter 1
Section- 51	Section - 51. Promisor not bound to perform, unless reciprocal promisee ready and willing to perform Chapter 1
Section- 52	Section - 52. Order of performance of reciprocal promises Chapter 1
Section- 53	Section - 53. Liability of party preventing event on which the contract is to take effect Chapter 1
Section- 54	Section - 54. Effect of default as to that promise which should be first performed, in contract consisting of reciprocal promises Chapter 1
Section- 55	Section - 55. Effect of failure to perform at fixed time, in contract in which time is essential Chapter 1
Section- 56	Section - 56. Agreement to do impossible act. Chapter 1
Section- 57	Section - 57. Reciprocal promise to do things legal, and also other things illegal Chapter 1
Section- 58	Section - 58 . Alternative promise, one branch being illegal Chapter 1
Section- 59	Section - 59. Application of payment where debt to be discharged is indicated Chapter 1
Section- 60	Section - 60. Where a debtor, owing several distinct debts to one person, makes a payment to him, either with express intimation, or under circumstances implying, that the payment is to be applied to the discharge of some particular debt, the payment, Chapter 1
Section- 61	Section - 61. Application of payment where neither party appropriates Chapter 1
Section- 62	Section - 62. Effect of novation, rescission, and alteration of contract Chapter 1
Section- 63	Section - 63. Promise may dispense with or remit performance of promisee Chapter 1
Section- 64	Section - 64. Consequences of rescission of voidable contract Chapter 1
Section- 65	Section - 65. Obligation of person who has received advantage under void agreement, or contract that becomes void Chapter 1
Section- 66	Section - 66. Mode of communicating or revoking rescission of voidable contract Chapter 1
Section- 67	Section - 67. Effect of neglect of promisee to afford promisor reasonable facilities for performance Chapter 1
Section- 68	Section - 68. Claim for necessaries supplied to person incapable of contracting, or on his account Chapter 1
Section- 69	Section - 69. Reimbursement of person paying money due by another, in payment of which he is interested Chapter 1
Section- 70	Section - 70. Obligation of person enjoying benefit of non-gratuitous act Chapter 1
Section- 71	Section - 71. Responsibility of finder of goods Chapter 1
Section- 72	Section - 72. Liability of person to whom money is paid, or thing delivered, by mistake or under coercion Chapter 1
Section- 73	Section - 73. Compensation for loss or damage caused by breach of contract Chapter 1
Section- 74	Section - 74. Compensation for breach of contract where penalty stipulated for Chapter 1
Section- 75	Section - 75. Party rightfully rescinding contract, entitled to compensation Chapter 1
Section- 76 - 123	Sections 76-123. [Sale of Goods:] Rep. by the Indian Sale of Goods Act, 1930 (3 of 1930) s. 65. Chapter 1
Section- 124	Section - 124. "Contract of indemnity" defined Chapter 1
Section- 125	Section - 125. Rights of indemnity-holder when sued Chapter 1
Section- 126	Section - 126. "Contract of guarantee", "surety", "principal debtor" and "creditor" Chapter 1
Section- 127	Section - 127. Consideration for guarantee Chapter 1
Section- 128	Section - 128. Surety's liability Chapter 1
Section- 129	Section - 129. "Continuing guarantee" Chapter 1
Section- 130	Section - 130. Revocation of continuing guarantee Chapter 1
Section- 131	Section - 131. Revocation of continuing guarantee by surety's death Chapter 1
Section- 132	Section - 132. Liability of two persons, primarily liable, not affected by arrangement between them that one shall be surety on other's default Chapter 1
Section- 133	Section - 133. Discharge of surety by variance in terms of contract. Chapter 1
Section- 134	Section - 134. Discharge of surety by release or discharge of principal debtor Chapter 1
Section- 135	Section - 135. Discharge of surety when creditor compounds with, gives time to, or agrees not to sue, principal debtor Chapter 1
Section- 136	Section - 136. Surety not discharged when agreement made with third person to give time to principal debtor Chapter 1
Section- 137	Section - 137. Creditor's forbearance to sue does not discharge surety Chapter 1
Section- 138	Section - 138. Release of one co-surety does not discharge others Chapter 1
Section- 139	Section - 139. Discharge of surety by creditor's act or omission impairing surety's eventual remedy Chapter 1
Section- 140	Section - 140. Rights of surety on payment or performance Chapter 1
Section- 141	Section - 141. Surety's right to benefit of creditor's securities Chapter 1
Section- 142	Section - 142. Guarantee obtained by misrepresentation invalid. Chapter 1
Section- 143	Section - 143. Guarantee obtained by concealment invalid Chapter 1
Section- 144	Section - 144. Guarantee on contract that creditor shall not act on it until co-surety joins Chapter 1
Section- 145	Section - 145. Implied promise to indemnify surety Chapter 1
Section- 146	Section - 146. Co-sureties liable to contribute equally Chapter 1
Section- 147	Section - 147. Liability of co-sureties bound in different sums Chapter 1
Section- 148	Section - 148. "Bailment" "bailor" and "bailee" defined Chapter 1
Section- 149	Section - 149. Delivery to bailee how made Chapter 1
Section- 150	Section - 150. Bailor's duty to disclose faults in goods bailed Chapter 1
Section- 151	Section - 51. Care to be taken by bailee Chapter 1
Section- 152	Section - 152. Bailee when not liable for loss, etc., of thing bailed Chapter 1
Section- 153	Section - 153. Termination of bailment by bailee's act inconsistent with conditions Chapter 1
Section- 154	Section - 154. Liability of bailee making unauthorized use of goods bailed Chapter 1
Section- 155	Section - 155. Effect of mixture, with bailor's consent, of his goods with bailee's Chapter 1
Section- 156	Section - 156. Effect of mixture, without bailor's consent, when the goods can be separated Chapter 1
Section- 157	Section - 157. Effect of mixture, without bailor's consent, when the goods cannot be separated Chapter 1
Section- 158	Section - 158. Repayment, by bailor, of necessary expenses Chapter 1
Section- 159	Section - 159. Restoration of goods lent gratuitously Chapter 1
Section- 160	Section - 160. Return of goods bailed, on expiration of time or accomplishment of purpose Chapter 1
Section- 161	Section - 61. Bailee's responsibility when goods are not duly returned Chapter 1
Section- 162	Section - 162. Termination of gratuitous bailment by death Chapter 1
Section- 163	Section - 163. Bailor entitled to increase or profit from goods bailed Chapter 1
Section- 164	Section - 164. Bailor's responsibility to bailee Chapter 1
Section- 165	Section - 165. Bailment by several joint owners Chapter 1
Section- 166	Section - 166. Bailee not responsible on re-delivery to bailor without title Chapter 1
Section- 167	Section - 167. Right of third person claiming goods bailed Chapter 1
Section- 168	Section - 168. Right of finder of goods, may sue for specific reward offered Chapter 1
Section- 169	Section - 169. When finder of thing commonly on sale may sell it Chapter 1
Section- 170	Section - 170. Bailee's particular lien Chapter 1
Section- 171	Section - 171. General lien of bankers, factors, wharfingers, attorneys and policy-brokers Chapter 1
Section- 172	Section - 172. "Pledge" "pawnor", and "pawnee" defined Chapter 1
Section- 173	Section - 173. Pawnee's right of retainer Chapter 1
Section- 174	Section - 174. Pawnee not to retain for debt or promise other than that for which goods pledged. Presumption in case of subsequent advances Chapter 1
Section- 175	Section - 175. Pawnee's right as to extraordinary expenses incurred Chapter 1
Section- 176	Section - 176. Pawnee's right where pawnor makes default Chapter 1
Section- 177	Section - 177. Defaulting pawner's right to redeem Chapter 1
Section- 178	Section - 178. Pledge by mercantile agent Chapter 1
Section- 178 A	Section - 178 A. Pledge by person in possession under voidable contract Chapter 1
Section- 179	Section - 179. Pledge where pawnor has only a limited interest Chapter 1
Section- 180	Section - 180. Suit by bailor or bailee against wrong-doer Chapter 1
Section- 181	Section - 181. Apportionment of relief or compensation obtained by such suits Chapter 1
Section- 182	Section - 182. "Agent" and "principal" defined Chapter 1
Section- 183	Section - 183. Who may employ agent Chapter 1
Section- 184	Section - 184. Who may be an agent Chapter 1
Section- 185	Section - 185. Consideration not necessary Chapter 1
Section- 186	Section - 186. Agent's authority may be expressed or implied Chapter 1
Section- 187	Section - 187. Definitions of express and implied authority Chapter 1
Section- 188	Section - 188. Extent of agent's authority Chapter 1
Section- 189	Section - 189. Agent's authority in an emergency Chapter 1
Section- 190	Section - 190. When agent cannot delegate Chapter 1
Section- 191	Section - 191. "Sub-agent" defined. Chapter 1
Section- 192	Section - 192. Representation of principal by sub-agent properly appointed Chapter 1
Section- 193	Section - 193. Agent's responsibility for sub-agent appointed without authority Chapter 1
Section- 194	Section - 194. Relation between principal and person duly appointed by agent to act in business of agency Chapter 1
Section- 195	Section - 195. Agent's duty in naming such person Chapter 1
Section- 196	Section - 196. Right of person as to acts done for him without his authority. Effect of ratification Chapter 1
Section- 197	Section - 197. Ratification may be expressed or implied Chapter 1
Section- 198	Section - 198. Knowledge requisite for valid ratification Chapter 1
Section- 199	Section - 199. Effect of ratifying unauthorized act forming part of a transaction Chapter 1
Section- 200	Section - 200. Ratification of unauthorized act cannot injure third person Chapter 1
Section- 201	Section - 21. Termination of agency Chapter 1
Section- 202	Section - 202. Termination of agency where agent has an interest in subject-matter Chapter 1
Section- 203	Section - 203. . When principal may revoke agent's authority Chapter 1
Section- 204	Section - 204. Revocation where authority has been partly exercised Chapter 1
Section- 205	Section - 205. . Compensation for revocation by principal, or renunciation by agent Chapter 1
Section- 206	Section - 206. Notice of revocation or renunciation Chapter 1
Section- 207	Section - 207. Revocation and renunciation may be expressed or implied Chapter 1
Section- 208	Section - 208. When termination of agent's authority takes effect as to agent, and as to third persons Chapter 1
Section- 209	Section - 209. Agent's duty on termination of agency by principal's death or insanity Chapter 1
Section- 210	Section - 210. Termination of sub-agent's authority Chapter 1
Section- 211	Section - 211. Agent's duty in conducting principal's business Chapter 1
Section- 212	Section - 212. Skill and diligence required from agent Chapter 1
Section- 213	Section - 213. Agent's accounts Chapter 1
Section- 214	Section - 214. Agent's duty to communicate with principal Chapter 1
Section- 215	Section - 215. Right of principal when agent deals, on his own account, in business of agency without principal's consent Chapter 1
Section- 216	Section - 216. Principal's right to benefit gained by agent dealing on his own account in business of agency Chapter 1
Section- 217	Section - 217. Agent's right of retainer out of sums received on principal's account Chapter 1
Section- 218	Section - 218. Agent's duty to pay sums received for principal Chapter 1
Section- 219	Section - 219. When agent's remuneration becomes due Chapter 1
Section- 220	Section - 220. Agent not entitled to remuneration for business misconducted Chapter 1
Section- 221	Section - 221. Agent's lien on principal's property Chapter 1
Section- 222	Section - 222. Agent to be indemnified against consequences of lawful acts. Chapter 1
Section- 223	Section - 223. Agent to be indemnified against consequences of acts done in good faith Chapter 1
Section- 224	Section - 224. Non-liability of employer of agent to do a criminal act Chapter 1
Section- 225	Section - 225. Compensation to agent for injury caused by principal's neglect Chapter 1
Section- 226	Section - 226. Enforcement and consequences of agent's contracts Chapter 1
Section- 227	Section - 227. Principal how far bound, when agent exceeds authority Chapter 1
Section- 228	Section - 228. Principal not bound when excess of agent's authority is not separable Chapter 1
Section- 229	Section - 229. Consequences of notice given to agent Chapter 1
Section- 230	Section - 230. Agent cannot personally enforce, nor be bound by, contracts on behalf of principal Chapter 1
Section- 231	Section - 231. Rights of parties to a contract made by agent not disclosed Chapter 1
Section- 232	Section - 232. Performance of contract with agent supposed to be principal Chapter 1
Section- 233	Section - 233. Right of person dealing with agent personally liable Chapter 1
Section- 234	Section - 234. Consequence of inducing agent or principal to act on belief that principal or agent will be held exclusively liable Chapter 1
Section- 235	Section - 235. Liability of pretended agent Chapter 1
Section- 236	Section - 236. Person falsely contracting as agent not entitled to performance Chapter 1
Section- 237	Section - 237. Liability of principal inducing belief that agent's unauthorized acts were authorized Chapter 1
Section- 238	Section - 238. Effect, on agreement, of misrepresentation of fraud, by agent Chapter 1
Section-	Schedule: Enactments [Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914 (10 of 1914)] Chapter 1
Section-	Foot Notes Chapter 1

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