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Indian Contract Act, 1872 Complete Act

Title: Indian Contract Act, 1872

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....- Ratification may be expressed or implied Section198 - Knowledge requisite for valid ratification Section199 - Effect of ratifying unauthorized act forming part of a transaction Section200 - Ratification of unauthorized act cannot injure third person Section201 - Termination of agency Section202 - Termination of agency, where agent has an interest in subject-matter Section203 - When principal may revoke agents authority Section204 - Revocation where authority has been partly exercised Section205 - Compensation for revocation by principal, or renunciation by agent Section206 - Notice of revocation or renunciation Section207 - Revocation and renunciation may be expressed or implied Section208 - When termination of agents authority takes effect as to agent and as to third persons Section209 - Agents duty on termination of agency by principals death or insanity Section210 - Termination of sub-agents authority Section211 - Agents duty in conducting principals business Section212 - Skill and diligence required from agent Section213 - Agents accounts Section214 - Agents duty to communicate with principal Section215 - Right of principal when agent deals, on his own.....

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Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 178A

Title: Pledge by Person in Possession Under Voidable Contract

State: Central

Year: 1872

When the pawnor has obtained possession of the goods pledged by him under a contract voidable under section 19 or section 19A, but the contract has not been rescinded at the time of the pledge, the pawnee acquires a good title to the goods, provided he acts in good faith and without notice of the pawnor's defect of title. ]

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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 Complete Act

Title: Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970

State: Central

Year: 1970

.....- First-aid facilities Section20 - Liability of principal employer in certain cases Section21 - Responsibility for payment of wages Chapter VI Section22 - Obstructions Section23 - Contravention of provisions regarding employment of contract labour Section24 - Other offences Section25 - Offences by companies Section26 - Cognizance of offences Section27 - Limitation of prosecutions Chapter VII Section28 - Inspecting staff Section29 - Registers and other records to be maintained Section30 - Effect of laws and agreements inconsistent with this Act Section31 - Power to exempt in special cases Section32 - Protection of action taken under this Act Section33 - Power to give directions Section34 - Power to remove difficulties Section35 - Power to make rules

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Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 1

Title: Short Title, Extent and Commencement

State: Central

Year: 1872

This Act may be called the Indian Contract Act, 1872. Extent, Commencement--It extends to the whole of India1[except the State of Jammu and Kashmir]; and it shall come into force on the first day of September, 1872. Enactments Repealed-2[* * *] Nothing herein contained shall affect the provisions of any Statute, Act or Regulation not hereby expressly repealed, nor any usage or custom of trade, nor any incident of any contract, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act _______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, section 3 and Schedule, for "except part B States". 2. The Words "The enactments mentioned in the Schedule here to are repealed to the extent specified in the third column thereof, but" rep. by Act 10 of 1914, section 3 and Schedule II.

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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 Section 1

Title: Short Title, Extent, Commencement and Application

State: Central

Year: 1970

..... (a) to every establishment in which twenty or more workmen are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months as contract labour; (b) to every contractor who employs or who employed on any day of the preceding twelve months twenty or more workmen: Provide that the appropriate government may, after giving not less than two months' notice of its intention so to do, by notification in the Official Gazette, apply the provisions of this Act to any establishment or contractor employing such number of workmen less than twenty as may be specified in the notification. (5) (a) It shall not apply to establishments in which work only of an intermittent or casual nature is performed. (b) If a question arises whether work performed in an establishment is of an intermittent or casual nature, the appropriate government shall decide the question after consultation with the Central Board or, as the case may be, as State Board, and its decision shall be final. Explanation.-For the purpose of this sub-section, work performed in an establishment shall not be deemed to be of an intermittent nature- (i) if it was performed for more than one hundred and twenty.....

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Indian Contract Act, 1872 Chapter 6

Title: Of the Consequences of Breach of Contract

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....in advance. A repairs the house, but not according to contract. B is entitled to recover from A the cost of making the repairs conform to the contract. (g) A contracts to let his ship to B for a year, from the first of January, for a certain price. Freights rise, and, on the first of January, the hire obtainable for the ship is higher than the contract price. A breaks his promise. He must pay to B, by way of compensation, a sum equal to the difference between the contract price and the price for which B could hire a similar ship for a year on and from the first of January. (h) A contracts to supply B with a certain quantity of iron at a fixed price, being a higher price than that for which A could procure and deliver the iron. B wrongfully refuses to receive the iron. B must pay to A, by way of compensation, the difference between the contract price of the iron and the sum for which A could have obtained and delivered it. (i) A delivers to B, a common carrier, a machine, to be conveyed, without delay, to A's mill, informing B that his mill is stopped for want of the machine. B unreasonably delays the delivery of the machine, and A, in consequence, loses a profitable.....

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Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 73

Title: Compensation for Loss or Damage Caused by Breach of Contract

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....in advance. A repairs the house, but not according to contract. B is entitled to recover from A the cost of making the repairs conform to the contract. (g) A contracts to let his ship to B for a year, from the first of January, for a certain price. Freights rise, and, on the first of January, the hire obtainable for the ship is higher than the contract price. A breaks his promise. He must pay to B, by way of compensation, a sum equal to the difference between the contract price and the price for which B could hire a similar ship for a year on and from the first of January. (h) A contracts to supply B with a certain quantity of iron at a fixed price, being a higher price than that for which A could procure and deliver the iron. B wrongfully refuses to receive the iron. B must pay to A, by way of compensation, the difference between the contract price of the iron and the sum for which A could have obtained and delivered it. (i) A delivers to B, a common carrier, a machine, to be conveyed, without delay, to A's mill, informing B that his mill is stopped for want of the machine. B unreasonably delays the delivery of the machine, and A, in consequence, loses a profitable.....

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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 Chapter V

Title: Welfare and Health of Contract Labour

State: Central

Year: 1970

.....employer from the contractor either by deduction from any amount payable to the contractor under any contract or as a debt payable by the contractor. Section 21 - Responsibility for payment of wages (1) A contractor shall be responsible for payment of wages to each worker employed by him as contract labour and such wages shall be paid before the expiry of such period as may be prescribed. (2) Every principal employer shall nominate a representative duly authorised by him to be present at the time of disbursement of wages by the contractor and it shall be the duty of such representative to certify the amounts paid as wages in such manner as may be prescribed. (3) It shall be the duty of the contractor or ensure the disbursement of wages in the presence of the authorised representative of the principal employer. (4) In case the contractor fails to make payment of wages within the prescribed period or makes short payment, then the principal employer shall be liable to make payment of wages in full or the unpaid balance due, as the case may be, to the contract labour employed by the contractor and recover the amount so paid from the contractor either by deduction from.....

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Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 62

Title: Effect of Novation, Rescission, and Alteration of Contract

State: Central

Year: 1872

If the parties to a contract agree to substitute a new contract for it, or to rescind or alter it, the original contract need not be performed. Illustrations (a) A owes money to B under a contract. It is agreed between A, B and C that B shall thenceforth accept C as his debtor, instead of A. The old debt of A to B is at an end, and a new debt from C to B has been contracted. (b) A owes B 10,000 rupees. A enters into an arrangement with B, and gives B a mortgage of his (A's) estate for 5,000 rupees in place of the debt of 10,000 rupees. This is a new contract and extinguishes the old. (c) A owes B 1,000 rupees under a contract. B owes C 1,000 rupees. B orders A to credit C with 1,000 rupees in his books, but C does not assent to the arrangement. B still owes C 1,000 rupees, and no new contract has been entered into.

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Indian Contract Act, 1872 Section 166

Title: 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.

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