Mera Samvidhaan All of Indian Contract Act, 1872

Chapter IX · Of Bailment

166Bailee not responsible on re-delivery to bailor without title.

Section 166 · Chapter IX · page 41 of the Act

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 delivery1.

1 See the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), s. 117.

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