TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government Enacted1872

Contract Act, 1872 Section 42

DEVOLUTION OF JOINT LIABILITIES When two or more persons have made a joint promise then, unless a contrary intention

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SECTION 42: DEVOLUTION OF JOINT LIABILITIES When two or more persons have made a joint promise then, unless a contrary intention appears by the contract, all such persons, during their joint lives, and after the death of any of them, his representative jointly with the survivor, or survivors, and after the death of the last survivor, the representatives of all jointly, must fulfil the promise.