Mera Samvidhaan All of Indian Contract Act, 1872

Chapter X · Agency

234Consequence of inducing agent or principal to act on belief that principal or agent will be held exclusively liable.

Section 234 · Chapter X · Effect of agency on contracts with third persons · page 51 of the Act

When a person who has made a contract with an agent induces the agent to act upon the belief that the principal only will be held liable, or induces the principal to act upon the belief that the agent only will be held liable, he cannot afterwards hold liable the agent or principal respectively.

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