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CHAPTER X AGENCY · Effect of agency on contracts with third persons

Section 236: Person falsely contracting as agent not entitled to performance

The Indian Contract Act, 1872

A person with whom a contract has been entered into in the character of agent, is not entitled to require the performance of it, if he was in reality acting, not as agent, but on his own account.

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  1. 1. Under Section 236 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, a person with whom a contract has been entered into in the character of agent, but who was in reality acting on his own account:

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