The special contracts half of the Act — indemnity and guarantee (ss. 124 to 147), bailment and pledge (ss. 148 to 181), and agency (ss. 182 to 238). Note that indemnity in s. 124 is narrower than the English doctrine, covering loss caused by the promisor or by another person, and the courts have had to work around that.
The sections below are the ones the LL.B. papers examine on this Act, with the unit that covers each and the cases decided on it. The official text is on India Code ↗.
Sections in the syllabus
s. 2(9)
s. 2(10)
s. 2(d)
s. 3(1)
s. 3(2)
s. 3(3)
s. 4
s. 4(1)
s. 6
s. 8
s. 8(2)
s. 9
s. 14
s. 16
s. 16(1)
s. 16(2)
s. 17
s. 18
s. 19
s. 20
s. 20(1)
s. 20(2)
s. 21(1)
s. 25
s. 26
s. 27
s. 27(3)
s. 28
s. 28(1)
s. 28(2)
s. 30
s. 30(1)
s. 30(2)
s. 30(3)
s. 30(5)
s. 30(7)
s. 32(3)
s. 45
s. 54(3)
s. 59
s. 63
s. 65
s. 66
s. 69
s. 69(1)
s. 69(2)
s. 69(3)
s. 72
s. 76
s. 124
s. 125
s. 133
s. 134
s. 135
s. 136
s. 137
s. 139
s. 140
s. 141
s. 142
s. 143
s. 144
s. 145
s. 146
s. 147
s. 148
s. 164
s. 171
s. 178
s. 222
Cases on this Act
- K.D. Kamath and Co. v. Commissioner of Income Tax (1971)
- Cox v. Hickman (1860)
- Mollwo, March and Co. v. The Court of Wards (1872)
- Miles v. Clarke (1953)
- Trimble v. Goldberg (1906)
- Hamlyn v. Houston and Co. (1903)
- Tower Cabinet Co. Ltd v. Ingram (1949)
- Shivgouda Ravji Patil v. Chandrakant Neelkanth Sadalge (1965)
- Jagdish Chandra Gupta v. Kajaria Traders (India) Ltd (1964)
- Haldiram Bhujiawala v. Anand Kumar Deepak Kumar (2000)
- Salomon v. Salomon and Co. Ltd (1897)
- State of Madras v. Gannon Dunkerley and Co. (Madras) Ltd (1959)
- R.D. Saxena v. Balram Prasad Sharma (2000)
- Jones v. Just (1868)
- Richard Thorold Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills Ltd (1936)
- Pearson v. Rose and Young Ltd (1950)
- Gajanan Moreshwar Parelkar v. Moreshwar Madan Mantri
- State of Madhya Pradesh v. Kaluram