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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Contract Act, 1872 Section 159

RESTORATION OF GOODS LENT GRATUITOUSLY The lender of a thing for use may at any time require its return, if the loan

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Contract Act, 1872 Section 159 is part of Contract Act, 1872 - RESTORATION OF GOODS LENT GRATUITOUSLY The lender of a thing for use may at any time require its return, if the loan. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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SECTION 159: RESTORATION OF GOODS LENT GRATUITOUSLY The lender of a thing for use may at any time require its return, if the loan was gratuitous, even though he lent it for a specified time or purpose. But if, on the face of such loan made for a specified time or purpose, the borrower has acted in such a manner that the return of the thing lent before the time agreed upon would cause him loss exceeding the benefit actually derived by him from the loan, the lender must, if he compels the return, indemnify the borrower for the amount in which the loss so occasioned exceeds the benefit so derived.

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Section Section 159 of the Contract Act, 1872 (RESTORATION OF GOODS LENT GRATUITOUSLY The lender of a thing for use may at any time require its return, if the loan) is reproduced on this page as part of the Contract Act, 1872. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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