Title : Responsibility of Finder of Goods
State : Central
Year : 1872
A person who finds goods belonging to another, and takes them into his custody, is subject to the same responsibility as a bailee.1 _______________________ 1 . See section 151 and 152, infra. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Rights of Indemnity- Holder when Sued
State : Central
Year : 1872
The promisee in a contract of indemnity, acting within the scope of his authority, is entitled to recover from the promisor (1) all damages which he may be compelled to pay in any suit in respect of any matter to which the promise to indemnify applies; (2) all costs which he may be compelled to pay in any such suit if, in bringing or defending it, he did not contravene the orders of the promisor, and acted as it would have been prudent for him to act in the absence of any contract of indemnity, or if the promisor authorized him to bring or defend the suit; (3) all sums which he may have paid under the terms of any compromise of any such suit, if the compromise was not contrary to the orders of the promisor, and was one which it would have been prudent for the promisee to make in..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Release of One Co- Surety Does Not Discharge Others
State : Central
Year : 1872
Where there are co-sureties, a release by the creditor of one of them does not discharge the others; neither does it free the surety so released from his responsibility to the other sureties.1 _______________________ 1. See section 44, supra. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Guarantee on Contract That Creditor Shall Not Act on It Until Co-surety Joins
State : Central
Year : 1872
Where a person gives a guarantee upon a contract that the creditor shall not act upon it until another person has joined in it as co-surety, the guarantee is not valid if that other person does not join. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Bailee Not Responsible on Redelivery to Bailor Without Title
State : Central
Year : 1872
If the bailor has no title to the goods, and the bailee, in good faith, delivers them back to, or according to the directions of, the bailor, the bailee is not responsible to the owner in respect of such delivery.1 _______________________ 1 . See the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), section 117. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : When Principal May Revoke Agents Authority
State : Central
Year : 1872
The principal may, save as is otherwise provided by the last preceding section, revoke the authority given to his agent at any time before the authority has been exercised so as to bind the principal. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Compensation to Agent for Injury Caused by Principals Neglect
State : Central
Year : 1872
The principal must make compensation to his agent in respect of injury1 caused to such agent by the principal's neglect or want of skill. Illustration A employs B as a bricklayer in building a house, and puts up the scaffolding himself. The scaffolding is unskillfully put up, and B is in consequence hurt. A must make compensation to B. _______________________ 1. Cf. the Indian Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 (13 of 1855). View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Enforcement and Consequences of Agents Contracts
State : Central
Year : 1872
Contracts entered into through an agent, and obligations arising from acts done by an agent, may be enforced in the same manner, and will have the same legal consequences, as if the contracts had been entered into and the acts done by the principal in person. Illustration (a) A buys goods from B, knowing that he is an agent for their sale, but not knowing who is the principal. B's principal is the person entitled to claim from A the price of the goods, and A cannot, in a suit by the principal, set-off against that claim a debt due to himself from B. (b) A, being B's agent with authority to receive money on his behalf, receives from C a sum of money due to B. C is discharged of his obligation to pay the sum in question to B. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Right of Person Dealing with Agent Personally Liable
State : Central
Year : 1872
In cases where the agent is personally liable, a person dealing with him may hold either him or his principal, or both of them, liable. Illustration A enters into a contract with B to sell him 100 bales of cotton, and afterwards discovers that B was acting as agent for C. A may sue either B or C, or both, for the price of the cotton. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Effect, on Agreement, of Misrepresentation or Fraud by Agent
State : Central
Year : 1872
Misrepresentations made, or frauds committed, by agents acting in the course of their business for their principals, have the same effect on agreements made by such agents as if such misrepresentations or frauds had been made or committed by the principals; but misrepresentations made, or frauds committed, by agents, in matters which do not fall within their authority, do not affect their principals. Illustration (a) A, being B's agent for the sale of goods, induces C to buy them by a misrepresentation, which he was not authorized by B to make. The contract is voidable, as between B and C, at the option of C. (b) A, the captain of B's ship, signs bills of lading without having received on board the goods mentioned therein. The bills of lading are void as between B and the pretended..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section